Today in ELA 9/10

Learning Goals:

~Write your best personal narrative, or personal story, using memory of a person or place.
~Study the strategies for generating personal narratives.

Writing Workshop Activities:
Review Chart
How to Write Powerful Narratives

Strategies for Generating Personal Narratives
Person: Think of a person who matters to you, list small moment stories, choose one, and write the whole story.

Narrative Challenge
Write a narrative using one of our strategies from class today.

Writing Reminders
*Write a beginning for your story.
*Use transition words to tell what happened in order.
*Elaborate to help readers picture your story.
*Show what your story is really about.
*Write an ending for your story. 

Popcorn Share
Read aloud a small excerpt from today's narrative challenge.



Homework:

-Keep the Ideas flowing! Go on with the narrative you've started or start a new one.  Set a goal to challenge yourself! (Length Goal- 2 Pages; Skip Lines)

Aligned CCS Standards: W.6.3, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, RL.6.2, RL. 6.3, SL.6.1, SL.6.5, SL.6.6, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3