Last NaNoWriMo Prep Day!

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Today I need to send you a few at a time to see the nurse for vision screening. I'll let you know when It's your turn. Please get there and get back as quickly as you can.

Goal 1: Take your Dialog Quiz

Goal 2: Work with your table partner to work through this form about novel beginnings.

Goal 3: Check your "Shared With Me" section in Google Docs to make sure you got the template for NaNoWriMo.

NaNoWriMo Starts Tomorrow!

Dialog Day 3

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One more day of dialog:

1. Check the dialog you wrote yesterday.

• Is it correctly formatted with a new line for each change in speakers?
• Does it have "quotation marks?"
• Are the periods and commas in the right places? 

2. Write a few more of the dialog exercises.
3. Be prepared to share out your favorite dialog.
4. If Mrs. R. approves your dialog formatting you can make one of these. http://goo.gl/sUGZvl 

5. Yesterday you probably got an email with a grade for your character questionnaire. Some of you still need to work on that.

NaNoWriMo is Coming!

Dialog Day 2

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1. Login to NaNoWriMo: http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/  (If you can't remember your password use the 'request new password' tab.)  (Join Fresh English if you aren't in our class yet.)
2. Click 'Edit Novel Info on the left.
3. Your default word count goal is 30000 based on the average of what students wrote last year. Enter YOUR word count goal for NaNoWriMo.

4. Yesterday we learned about punctuating dialog. READ what NaNoWriMo says about dialog.
5. WRITE the dialog exercises in your writer's notebook.
6. At the end of the period you will be sharing some of your dialog writing.

Dialog Day 1

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Today we have a quick lesson on punctuating dialog.
Then we are going to take a quick practice quiz about punctuating dialog.

There will be no talking while we are busy learning about dialog.

Advice of the Week

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Your AOW this week is to read a bunch of advice about NaNoWriMo from other young authors who have done it before.

1. Read through their advice carefully.
2. Pick out 2-3 quotes that you find most helpful. 
3. Write a paragraph about those pieces of advice and how they help you specifically. 
4. Then get back to novel planning. Many of you have work to do with your six plot questions. 

There is magic fairy focus dust all over this classroom. 

You have a lot to do. 

Stay focused and DON'T PANIC! 

Picture of Novel thanks to Olaf Simons from Wikimedia Commons and Ookaboo!