Name: Summative Performance Task: Cautionary, Dystopian Narrative Imagined Worlds and Our Reality Summary Cautionary, Dystopian Narrative Graphic Organizer This graphic organizer will help you brainstorm and organize your writing before

you begin drafting your cautionary narrative. You will begin brainstorming and typing into this document in Step 1 on page 2. Topic Write a cautionary, dystopian narrative about the future implications of technology. Guiding Questions Steps for Writing a Narrative 1. What technology have we taken too far? 2. What could be some negative and positive consequences of this technology? 3. What conflict does this technology cause? 4. How will your character(s) try to solve the conflict? 5. How will technology impact daily routines and social interactions? 6. What lesson will your narrative teach? o Step 1: Brainstorm Technology Problems o Step 2: Determine Theme o Step 3: Plan Plot o Step 4: Develop Mood o Step 5: Write Narrative Mc Graw Actively Learn HHI 1 Step 1: Brainstorm Technology Problems 1. Select a real-world technology that you believe we are in danger of taking too far or have already taken too far, and write it in the first box below. This will be the main focus of your story. 2. Brainstorm and organize what you know about the technology by answering the questions in the remaining boxes. Pro Tip: Research your topic online if you need more information. Describe the technology you chose. Describe how we currently use this technology and how it impacts our daily lives. Describe reasons or circumstances that would cause humans to take the technology too far. What are the positive effects this technology has had/could have? Mc Graw Actively Learn Hill 2 What are the negative effects this technology has had/could have? Step 2: Determine Theme 1. Decide what your character(s) will learn as they work to solve the conflict the technology creates. Write it in the first box below. 2. Determine what other people can learn from your characters' experiences and write it in the second box below. This will be the theme of your story. Pro Tip: Your theme may not be something uplifting about humanity and may be cautionary. What will your character(s) learn while working to solve the conflict? What can other people learn from your characters' experiences? Step 3: Plan Plot 1. Plan the main details of your cautionary narrative using the chart below. It lists the "Plot Stages" in sequential order and "Guided Brainstorm" prompts to help you plan what to include in the plot of your narrative. 2. In the "Narrative Ideas" column, record your responses to the "Guided Brainstorm." Pro Tip: Use this step to help you brainstorm and organize your ideas. Plot Stage Guided Brainstorm Mc Graw Actively Learn Hill 3 Narrative Ideas Exposition Who will the main character(s) be, what role(s) will they play, and what will their main characteristics be? List at least 5 characteristics of the setting. Rising Describe the Action initial event that Mc Climax starts the main conflict. How will your character(s) react to the initiating event, and what do their reactions reveal about the plot? What steps will they take to face the conflict? What complications will they face when trying to resolve the conflict? Describe the last step they will take to resolve the conflict. Graw Actively Learn Hill Describe their emotions and thoughts while trying to resolve the conflict. Falling What will the Action aftereffects or consequences be? Resolution What will the character(s) learn from this experience? Step 4: Develop Mood 1. Plan the moods you will create at different points in your narrative, including at least TWO examples where the mood is tense. 2. Write the plot stages or scenes where you will include the examples in the “Plot Stage or Scene" column. 3. State the mood (feeling the reader will experience) for each plot stage or scene in the "Mood" column. 4. Explain how you plan to create the mood in the third column. You can include the following: a. a description of how a particular character, setting, or action will contribute to the mood b. specific words and phrases that will help create the mood 5. Compose specific examples of figurative language that will help create the mood in the last column. Pro Tip: As you plan tension, think of what areas of your cautionary narrative would benefit from making the reader feel anticipation, worry, or fear. Plot Stage or Scene Mood Plan to Create Mood Figurative Language Mc Graw Actively Learn Hill LO 5