Responsiblity To Act Writing Benchmark

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      • 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
    1. 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
    2. 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)
    3. 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)
    4. 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)
    5. 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
    6. Stack in this Order – Top to Bottom
      • Revised Draft
      • 1 st Draft
      • Notes from Last Class
      • BME Graphic Organizer
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