Students were each given nicknames to go along with the story of Maniac Magee. We are using those nicknames as an inspiration point for the piece of narrative writing they are going to be doing. They are writing a story about how their character got this nickname, and it is not based on the real person in our class. Students brought home their journal last night to show you their planning page. We are using the narrative writing diamond to help us with writing. This assignment will probably take us until Christmas as we work through each part of the story.
This morning we worked on writing our entertaining beginning, and will continue working on that part tomorrow. We talked about how authors don't write a novel in one day, and so we are not going to be writing our whole story in one day.
If students bring home parts of their story for homework, please be aware that it is not the whole story that they are expected to finish for that particular day.
This morning we worked on writing our entertaining beginning, and will continue working on that part tomorrow. We talked about how authors don't write a novel in one day, and so we are not going to be writing our whole story in one day.
If students bring home parts of their story for homework, please be aware that it is not the whole story that they are expected to finish for that particular day.