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Sixth Grade Learning Targets

We are currently working on our Narrative Writing Piece

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Today in ELA 9/11

Welcome Mrs. Gabriel!
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
Place: Think about a place that matters, use pictures and quick notes to list small moments that occurred there, 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. 

Homework:
-Keep the Ideas flowing! Go on with the narrative you've started or start a new one.  Try inserting "dialogue!" (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