Writing - Q1 Week 5 Day 2
We discussed another aspect of writing personal narrative: Thinking about what the story is really about? Why should the reader care about your story?
We looked at a mentor text called "Everything Will Be OK" by James Howe. Students discussed what lesson Howe wanted his readers to pick up from the text. They highlighted and annotated the story to identify how he conveyed the lesson. Be sure to ask a classmate if they will discuss the signposts with you to see if you noticed the same things we did. You can also ask what they think the story is really about, and what they noticed that makes them say it. The goal is to learn what you can do as a writer, from reading this text closely.
We reviewed the anchor chart for Personal Narrative.
Then students went back to their own flashdrafts and decided which flashdraft they thought they could develop a lesson for. Then they begin working on the first draft of a personal narrative, using one of the flashdrafts as a starting place.
We looked at a mentor text called "Everything Will Be OK" by James Howe. Students discussed what lesson Howe wanted his readers to pick up from the text. They highlighted and annotated the story to identify how he conveyed the lesson. Be sure to ask a classmate if they will discuss the signposts with you to see if you noticed the same things we did. You can also ask what they think the story is really about, and what they noticed that makes them say it. The goal is to learn what you can do as a writer, from reading this text closely.
We reviewed the anchor chart for Personal Narrative.
Then students went back to their own flashdrafts and decided which flashdraft they thought they could develop a lesson for. Then they begin working on the first draft of a personal narrative, using one of the flashdrafts as a starting place.