Today in ELA 9/15

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

Strategies for Generating Personal Narratives
First and Last Moments: Think of first times or last times you did something.
Moments that Really Matter: Think of moments that really mattered because you realized or learned something. 

Create a Chart to Brainstorm

First Times
Last Times
Times I realized Something

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! Finish the narrative you've started..  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.6.3, RL. 6.6, SL.6.1, SL.6.6, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3. L.6.6