Thinking Skills, Writing Notes, Narrative Tips...

1.  No Journal-  We have a lot to do.

2.  6-Traits:

Voice:  The personality of the author.
Ideas:  The topic and how it's presented.
Organization:  The plan and how it's implemented.
SF:  The pattern of sentences and their repetition.
WC:  Choosing the perfect language.
Conventions:  The grammar and punctuation.

3.  Writing Process:

Invent.  Creating ideas.  I/C
Organize.  Planning ideas.  I/C, Org
Draft.  Getting it all down.  Org/Voice
Revise:  To see again and fix SF, WC, Voice
Edit:  To fix grammar-  Conventions.
Publish:  It's perfect.  No mistakes allowed.

4.  TAP

5.  Narrative Tips...

Narrative To Dos and Don'ts-

Do:  Start en media res:  In the middle of the action.
Do:  Tell a story we care about/are interested in.
Do:  Have a beginning, middle, end, and (maybe) a moral.
Do:  Be human.
Do:  Pick a 30 second period of time to describe.

Don't:  Be egotistic:  we don't care about your 8th grade wrestling championship, you do.
Don't:  Start with all the background.  Start in the middle of the story!
Don't:  Write about your kids.
Don't:  Try to make yourself sound amazing-- Be yourself.

6.  Grading "Mother Nature."  Teams and Grades.

7.  HW-  Read...  "A Hanging,"  Create 10 TS questions for another to answer about the story.