Monday, November 29, 2010


Visiting Author Writing Workshop


What did you take away from today?

Tangible is Touchable!     Specific is Terrific!
Weave your story's actions, character traits, setting, emotions, and dialogue  together like a braid

Tonight's homework, set by our vising author,:
1. Finish and type a draft of your story.
2. Comic Sans  Double Spaced.
3. Print out a copy to bring to school.
4. Save a copy onto a USB (or if you don't have a USB, you can upload your document to google docs)
5. Read the story to yourself (what do you hear that you need to change?)
6. Have another person read you the story (what phrases and verbs jump out at you?  What parts don't sound as strong?)  make notes of what you might need to change tomorrow.

Come ready to edit tomorrow!!  

Here is a link to Mrs. Hemingway's author site:

9 comments:

Ashley said...

When you have you have a set of dialogue it would it be like this:
the cat ran up the tree.
"Get down here Lucy!"
or
The cat ran up the tree. "Get down here Lucy!"
thanks
Ashley

Mrs. Moore said...

Capitalize the first letter in your sentence (your second option). How can you show the cat running up the tree--can you use a more descriptive verb...what part of the tree (you may not want to change what you have, depending on what your focus is at this point in your story...)

Mrs. Moore said...

You only need to have a finished draft on your USB and hardcopy. You do NOT need to write the whole draft out in your daybook.

kwtayloe said...

Mrs Moore,
When arre the nouns and all thet stuff do for the Fortunately unfortunately writing for the people who have to get it done?

Thanks
Julia Tayloe 21

kwtayloe said...

Mrs Moore

I Sthe comic book that Mrs Hemingway was in [the mouse one]I can't find it on the blog.

Ashley said...

how long should we spend studying the south east region and do we need to know the rivers and where the states are.

Mrs. Moore said...

For tonight, you should be spending roughly 30 minutes studying and reviewing. Just learn the states tonight. We'll do some work in class tomorrow to help you learn the capitals. The bodies of water/Mountain you can pick up Thursday, since you know most of them anyway

Mrs. Moore said...

Julia,

I had hoped you could get them to me by tomorrow. If not, Monday is as good as any, since I will be out of town the rest of the week.

Mrs. Moore said...

Julia, it is on her website under "about me. Here is the direct link to that: http://www.ediehemingway.com/aboutme.html