Read:
10 Minutes
Memoir drafts:
- Most of you have a draft.
- All of you need more time to develop your draft.
- But first you need a lesson about slowing down time.
- Let's read THIS passage of an moment described in detail.
Step 1:
Divide your draft into three sections: before / during / after
Step 2:
Add more details to the middle/during section of your draft.
Suggested things to add include:
- What you were wondering in that moment
- What you thought was going to happen
- What you worried was going to happen
- Something someone (or you) said in that moment
- Sensory details, about what things smelled like or looked like
- The look on someone's face
- Add a simile or a metaphor, or a lot of adjectives
Need more help?
Here are a few more examples.
Reminders:
- Complete your memoir draft by 7:30 am Friday before school. (I'm looking them over during 1st period.) (If you need more time for your draft let me know that today.)
- Quiz Friday (tomorrow) about mentor sentences. Can you copy/change a sentence I give you? We learned about this Friday and Monday. Here are some of the slides we learned from.
- Keep reading.
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