Week 7 Day 2

How will your make your narrative piece the best you have ever written?

show me...don't tell me!

Remember the 'Showing not Telling' Database  below
http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-thesaurus-thursdays.html

Week 7 Day 2

will your narrative be unique?

Week 7 Day 1

H/W

RLA

Spend 30-45mins on your narrative pre-write or draft. Make sure you have plenty of ideas on your index cards for each section

Use this link to inspire you to get ideas for settings and showing not telling index cards

http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-thesaurus-thursdays.html

Try to make a good start on this  narrative tonight. You should have strong ideas or mini paragraphs on 3-4 of your index cards by tomorrow.

Book Club - Make sure your contribution is ready for tomorrow's discussions

Great Explorer Research - THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY TONIGHT! (save for Tuesday night)

Spend 15-20 minutes collecting research for your famous explorer Nota.
Remember: Use www.qwiki.com & wikipeadia

Next Week

Week 6 Day 5

Next week we will begin our final narrative piece. Make sure you have a concrete seed idea for Monday's class. You might want to bring in any photos or other images that will help you write abbout this dea.


Personification recap



Student of the Week: Maddy