We read the next vignette from House on Mango Street. We discussed how setting is used in the text to help convey the mood of the story. Using this as a mentor text, PJ wrote a vignette to his story, focusing on setting.
We compared and contrasted genres using Kobe’s poetic ”Dear Basketball” and Michael Jordan’s letter “Dear Basketball”. Using mentor texts is a great way for students to model good writing. Then Chris started his own letter using these texts as a model.
PJ continued writing his story. Today's focus was adding descriptive details to his sentences. He is doing an excellent job developing his writing skills.
PJ continues to add to the story that he's writing. Today I modeled "show not tell". He revised his story to make it more descriptive by showing the action. He also learned how to add dialogue tags that involved some sort of description or action of the character. I'm really impressed with the story and I love that he really enjoys writing now!
David outlined the scenes for a short novella he will be writing. He described the story arc. He also came up with the characters and their descriptions.
