1. Warm Up: Organization and Housekeeping As we near the submission date (10/12), now is a good time to take stock of all of your writing resources collected over the past few weeks. Take some time to review the skills we’ve practiced and to make sure your materials are organized in a helpful way.

2. Personal Memoir Writer’s Workshop Day 12 2 nd Draft Writing: Exploding a Moment

3. Learning Targets I can rewrite a weak simple sentence in my 1 st draft to have a modifying phrase. I can add descriptive details or figurative language to “explode” a significant moment I can make STAR revisions in my memoir draft

4. Monday: I skated over to my teammates. Tuesday: I rushed towards my teammates and skidded to a stop in front of them. Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:

5. Note Taking Add today’s notes to your CRAFT section

6. Writing Workshop Goals Find a place to explode a moment Continue with STAR revisions Join my writing tips group if you’d like to know some tricks for writing a stronger conclusion.

7. Closure Fill in one box on the Independent Correction Sheet based on your revision work today HW reminder: Read your essay ALOUD and backwards to check for conventions errors tonight!

8. A for Add Detail Description New Information Figurative Language Development Clarification of meanings Expanded Ideas

9. R for Rearrange The sequence to produce a desired effect The order for a more logical flow

10. The Five Rules for Writing Dialogue Rule 1Rule 2Rule 3Rule 4Rule 5 Use quotation marks. Separate dialogue tags from the quote with commas. Capitalize the first letter of the word of the conversation in quotation marks. Add end marks in the correct places. Start a new, indented paragraph each time a new character speaks