Today in ELA 9/25

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:

Techniques for Writing Memorable Leads

• Writers might include the smallest details of the moment, the ones that ring true for the narrator.
• Writers might include inner thinking to hit at what the story is really about.
• Writers might include the precise actions of the characters, helping readers to see how one action leads to another.  
• Writers might include the exact words the characters are speaking, in dialogue

Leads
Prompts for Leads

Narrative Challenge
Take one of your leads and create a narrative.  Reflect on your goals for craft and elaboration, as you write.       



Homework:

-Keep the Ideas flowing! Finish the narrative you've started...Think back to your lessons from mentor narratives.  (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