2 Sheets of Notebook Paper Your BME graphic organizer Your Notes from Last Class (5’s) “ Write a story about the time you learned the responsibility of standing up for your beliefs.” Writing Your Story

2 Sheets of Notebook Paper

Your BME graphic organizer

Your Notes from Last Class (5’s)

“ Write a story about the time you learned the responsibility of standing up for your beliefs.”

Story Components Setting Characters They face a challenge/conflict They struggle to overcome that challenge The challenge ends It may or may not be resolved Write your 6-word title and skip a line

Setting

Characters

They face a challenge/conflict

They struggle to overcome that challenge

The challenge ends

It may or may not be resolved

Write your 6-word title and skip a line

B – Beginning (15 min.) Show the setting through use of the senses/details Show yourself. The reader needs to see you. Do something “ Sense” something (see, smell, taste, touch, sound) Discover something Feel something Think something (Proper nouns make your story believable)

Show the setting through use of the senses/details

Show yourself. The reader needs to see you.

Do something

“ Sense” something (see, smell, taste, touch, sound)

Discover something

Feel something

Think something

(Proper nouns make your story believable)

M – Middle (20 min.) Decide to do something Show yourself doing something “ Sense” something (see, smell, taste, touch, sound) Think and feel while doing it Finish what you were doing “ Sense” something Think and feel something different (This should all happen in one place and time)

Decide to do something

Show yourself doing something

“ Sense” something (see, smell, taste, touch, sound)

Think and feel while doing it

Finish what you were doing

“ Sense” something

Think and feel something different

(This should all happen in one place and time)

E – End (10 min.) Think back on the event How have your feelings changed? State your answer to the prompt If in the same situation, what would you do? Include your six-word title (Answer the prompt and show growth)

Think back on the event

How have your feelings changed?

State your answer to the prompt

If in the same situation, what would you do?

Include your six-word title

(Answer the prompt and show growth)

Revision – Rewrite and Check (20) Check for homophones (their/there, its/it’s) Check for possessive and plural (students/student’s) Check your past tense verbs (ran vs. runned) Check punctuation of your dialogue Eliminate unnecessary parts Add proper nouns and necessary details Add transitions where necessary Write as neatly as possible

Check for homophones (their/there, its/it’s)

Check for possessive and plural (students/student’s)

Check your past tense verbs (ran vs. runned)

Check punctuation of your dialogue

Eliminate unnecessary parts

Add proper nouns and necessary details

Add transitions where necessary

Write as neatly as possible

Stack in this Order – Top to Bottom Revised Draft 1 st Draft Notes from Last Class BME Graphic Organizer

Revised Draft

1 st Draft

Notes from Last Class

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