Today in ELA 9/17

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:

HW Check


Review Chart
How to Write Powerful Narratives

Point of View Review
Point of View Practice


Strategies for Generating Personal Narratives
Point of View: Climb inside the moment and write within the narrator's point of view.  

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.  Remember to "Live in the Moment" and add sensory details. (Length Goal- 2 Pages; Skip Lines)

Aligned CCS Standards: W.6.3abcde, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, RL.6.3, RL. 6.6, RL. 7.6, SL.6.1, SL.6.4, SL.6.6, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3