The document provides an agenda for a morning activity session that includes: sharing responses to a "which one doesn't belong" activity, prayer requests, a spelling pre-quiz, and an introduction to writing personal narratives which are stories from one's own life that have a clear beginning, middle, and end. It also includes examples of strong writing sentences and prompts students to brainstorm topics for personal narratives.

1. Morning Activity
Which one doesn’t belong?
Everyone will share their
responses in the next slide!
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3. Prayer Requests
- What are you
thankful for?
- What would you like
to pray to God
about?

4. Spelling Pre-Quiz
Get out a separate sheet of paper.

5. Personal Narratives

7. Personal Narratives
- A memorable experience
that ACTUALLY happened
- Has a purpose
- Has a clear beginning,
middle, and end
- Uses figurative language,
sensory language, and
dialogue to enrich the story

11. Mentor Sentences
No writing is really original. Writers are constantly
stealing and taking from each other.
You can also take and steal from amazing
sentences to make your own writing amazing!
Which sentence stood out to you from the essay?

12. Mentor Sentences
“Silence hits us like a brick wall: The crickets stop
chirping, the owl stops hooting, even the cars stop
driving by. It’s deafening.”

13. Mentor Sentences
“Silence hits us like a brick wall: The crickets stop chirping, the owl
stops hooting, even the cars stop driving by. It’s deafening.”
The writer uses a strong action verb to personify something abstract.

14. Mentor Sentences
“Silence hits us like a brick wall: The crickets stop chirping, the owl
stops hooting, even the cars stop driving by. It’s deafening.”
The writer uses a strong action verb to personify something abstract.
The writer describes the effects of the action verb using sensory
language.

15. Mentor Sentences
“Silence hits us like a brick wall: The crickets stop chirping, the owl
stops hooting, even the cars stop driving by. It’s deafening.”
The writer uses a strong action verb to personify something abstract.
The writer describes the effects of the action verb using sensory
language.
The writer uses a powerful adjective to wrap up the description of
silence.

16. Mentor Sentences
The writer uses a strong action verb to personify something abstract.
The writer describes the effects of the action verb using sensory
language.
The writer uses a powerful adjective to wrap up the description of
silence.

17. Mentor Sentences
The writer uses a strong action verb to personify something abstract.
The writer describes the effects of the action verb using sensory
language.
The writer uses a powerful adjective to wrap up the description of
silence.
Quarantine drowns us in restlessness: our legs want to run outside,
our arms long to embrace our friends, even our minds desire
something outside of the box. It’s debilitating.

20. Brainstorming
- What keeps you up at night?
- What do you always like to talk
about with your friends?
- When was the last time you
were really emotional?
- What’s a small moment you
would like to expand?