Day Fourteen / 9.27.10

Today we changed seats. Then, I handed back your poems from Friday, your Vocabulary Quiz and Cat/Dog Quiz, and your My Name Final Drafts. Then, we read the quote of the day by William Faulkner, "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it." We then wrote in our own journals about whether or not it is necessary to leave the place you live. We reflected on the importance of knowing our place.

Next, we went over the Personal Moral Narrative prompt. After that, we read silently for a bit. Then, we did an inquiry chart on what we already know about stories, and what we want to learn about writing stories. After that, we went over introductory paragraphs and the devices author's use to draw their audience into a story and create tension.