1. Essential Question: What do I need to do to continue to improve my memoir?
In your planner:
DO NOW:
Today: Monday 5/2/16
Memoir Self-revising/editing
Binder Checks continued..
TRF Pre-work sharing
HW:
TRF due 5/3
Memoir due 5/6
Fill out your planner.
Take out your memoir sharing handout.
Re-read the comments you wrote after sharing your memoir with your group.
Pick-up:
-TRF

2. Memoir Revising & Editing
Sentence Beginning Strategy
Get with a new partner.
Re-read your memoir out loud to your partner.
Highlight the first two words in each sentences.
On a separate sheet of paper, your partner will list these two-word beginnings down the page, in order to look for repetitive beginnings.
With your partner, go back to your draft and break repetitions by changing the words and choice of vocabulary.

3. Memoir Revising & Editing
Technology Extension
Go back to your seat.
Log on to wordle.net.
Using the website, copy your paragraphs into the text box and use the word clouds as an editing tool to look for overused words.
Those words will stand out in the word cloud need to be replaced in your memoir.