8C @ W Erskine Johnston PS

Good morning!
Today you will use your computer lab time to accomplish three tasks, in order of importance:
1.  Complete your Memoir – print a copy for Mrs. Smith.
2. Work on your bitstripsforschools.com assignment “Create A Comic”
3. Update your blog.  Blogs will be evaluated next week.  The following checklist will be used to evaluate your blog. 
The blog [...]

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We continue to work on our memoirs this week.  Now that we have worked with our drafts, finding the most important moment and exploding it to add vivid details, we are ready to work on our leads and our endings.
Without an enticing and effective lead, the story is dead before it began.  The lead must [...]

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Today we will be moving from our personal memoir rapid writes to organizing the ideas using the memoir graphic organzer.  Students will begin by completing the RAFTS portion of the organizer.
Besides organizing our ideas, the graphic organizer will help us focus in on the central event of our memoir.
Once you have completed the organizer, go back [...]

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This week we will begin working on our narrative writing.  We are focusing on writing a memoir.  Memoirs are autobiographical in nature (they tell about the author’s life), but narrower in scope than a full autobiography.  Our memoirs are going to focus on a single memorable event in our lives.  To prepare, we will begin [...]

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