Notes, thinking skill project.

1. Journal:

What does thinking about how and what you think do for you?

2.  Groups and notes.  Get them from another if you didn't research and if you did, compare and contrast them with another.

3.  Notes... TAP, 6-Traits, Writing Process.

4.  Narrative Dues and Don'ts.

Do:  Start en media res:  In the middle of the action.
Do:  Tell a story we care about/are interested in.
Do:  Have a beginning, middle, end, and (maybe) a moral.
Do:  Be human.
Do:  Pick a 30 second period of time to describe.

Don't:  Be egotistic:  we don't care about your 8th grade wrestling championship, you do.
Don't:  Start with all the background.  Start in the middle of the story!
Don't:  Write about your kids.
Don't:  Try to make yourself sound amazing-- Be yourself.

5.  HOME WORK!  Grading "Mother Nature."   Grade with rubric

5.5.  Homework-  Thinking Skills final Project.... Create your masterpiece....  A Crane.

6.  HOME WORK!  Don't forget to be thinking of your narrative essay... Drafts due next Thursday!

7.  HW-  Read...  "A Hanging,"  Create 10 TS questions for another to answer about the story.