Today in ELA 10/1

Learning Goals:

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

Writing Workshop Activities:
Word Study- Highlands & Temperate
Leads

Narrative Challenge- 
Respond to the following prompt:  "I was so mortified, I wanted to crawl in a hole!"  (Write a short narrative where this is your first sentence.)

Writing Reminders
*Write a beginning for your story.
*Use details to help readers picture your story.
*Concentrate on a small moment.
*Insert dialogue appropriately.
*Write an ending for your story. 

Homework:
Finish typing graded narrative or work on typing tutor in iLab

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

Today in ELA 10/22

I Can...
~write a real narrative with descriptive details and effective technique 
~organize a logical event sequence and incorporate thoughts and feelings
~use dialogue, descriptions, and pacing to develop events and characters

Writing Workshop

Narrative Prompts
1. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Write a narrative about a time when you did something you thought you could not do. Be sure to include specific details so that a reader can follow your story.

2. Anne Frank said, "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." Use this quote to write about a particularly happy memory.  

3. Booker T. Washington wrote, "Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life. It's measured by the obstacles you overcome." At some time or other, we all face obstacles. Think of a time that you faced an obstacle and overcame it. Explain what happened and what you did to overcome the obstacle. Make sure to use the quote in your response.

Dialogue
Add dialogue to your story mountain

Leads
Use one of the 6 types of leads to begin your narrative

Homework:
Finish Lead for your narrative

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

Today in ELA 9/24

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

Narrative Challenge
Think of a few different leads you can try in your own writing.  If you first start with dialogue, then you might want to begin with a flashback, or a question.    

Prompts for Leads 

Homework:

-Write 2 different types of leads.  Each must be 5 sentences long.   

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