Day 35: 10/25/17 - C Day: Writer's Workshop Session #7 - Using Narrative Writing Checklists to Edit & Revise my Writing

Good Morning 6th Graders,
          Today is a 'C' Day. Make sure you use the bathroom & sharpen your pencils. Check to see that you have everything you need for your morning classes. 
                           Thank you
                           Mr. Trumble
ELA:
Do Now:

• Write tonight's homework down in your agenda

Homework: 

• Use the narrative writing checklists to finish Revising and Editing your Narrative writing and make all final improvements
• Should be bout 3 pages by the time you put all the pieces together
• Return Signed Grade Report
• Bring in lunch, camera, and water bottle for the field trip tomorrow
• Wear comfortable clothes, (No open toed shoes) Dress in layers

Writers Workshop Session #7

Standards:

• W6.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and a well structured sequence of events
• W6.4 - Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
• W6.5 -With guidance and support from peers & adults develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, and trying a new approach.

Part 1: Self Evaluation & Finishing Touches

Your Action: Part 1
1. Give your story a title
2. Use the Narrative Writing Checklist to put final improvements into your writing. At this point your writing is not done. It still needs your finishing touches. DO NOT JUST READ EACH CRITERIA AND MARK IT OF! Take your time to evaluate each component and make your writing the best it can be before working with a partner.

Your Action: Part 2

1. Make the necessary improvements to your narrative.

2. Be sure to find the internal story in your own narrative. Look for ways to include it in the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. 

Or simply put...look at the beginning, middle, and end for places to develop the internal story. 

3. Have you used transition words? Where should you insert transitional words and phrases to make your writing flow better.

4. Look for places to improve your organization. Place the paragraph symbol where ever you need to start a new paragraph. The paragraph symbol looks like this _______

5. Use quotation marks around your dialogue.

Part 2: Evaluation & Collaboration
Today you will choose another writing partner to work with to help you evaluate your writing and prepare it for final publication. 
1. Read your draft to your partner, including the Lead, the small details, the internal story, and all of the improvements you have made. 
2. You will use the Narrative Writing Peer Evaluator Checklist to get feedback

Share: (If time)  To celebrate today’s achievements, you will share your draft with a small group.  When it’s your turn to read, don’t start until you have everyone’s eyes on you.  Make sure to read it like gold with lots of expression.  When it’s your turn to listen, try to lose yourself in the story you are about to hear.  Try to see and feel this powerful small moment just as the writer tells it.