Today was a long day of writing, writing, and more writing!
We essentially went over the ENTIRE writing process we have been working on for short fictional narratives:
We develop our character:
We come up with some problems and possible solutions our character might face:
We pick a problem and solution, and then make a ‘handful’ of a story. We have had some real problems narrowing our writing down so we are focusing on five main events that tell a story for this round.
Students should have their character intro from last week. If not, they need to start with three paragraphs describing their character:
- What the character looks like
- Their background
- Something unique or special about the character
After that, they should take their sequence of events and use it as a guide to help them write their actual work. Each event should be a paragraph at minimum.
SO, all of these things are due tomorrow:
Char sheet CharOrganizer
Problem/solution sheet ProblemsAndSolution
Character introduction: 3 paragraphs
Sequence of events SequenceOfEvents
sequence of events turned into an actual story.
We also talked a great deal about how we are not simply *listing* what happened in our story. We are drawing out each event and painting a picture in our reader’s mind of what happened in those moments. Our story should not be a simple re-listing of our sequence of events.
After they are done writing, they should use this checklist to double check their work:
It is a decent amount of homework that they had some time to work on Friday and some time again today. I expect it to take approximately 30 minutes to an hour to complete tonight.
Because of that, they should only work on this, and do their reading log tonight!
tl;dr
Rough draft of fictional narrative due tomorrow along with all graphic organizers and other little bits and bobs!
And read!
Have a good one,
-Mr. Potter