}Bell
Ringer: Discuss
the English test from this morning
}Get your
computer (or go get a computer), log on, finish taking notes on sources:
Anything that helps answer “What is it like to be in ?”
–what aspect of the life of that person/group do you not know yet? Find
answers!
}Final
class research time (+/-
45 min)
◦You
need to have at least one video that you are using as a resource. Look through the videos on BBC and Reuters
before going to YouTube or just searching the web
◦Remember,
you are going to become a person with this perspective, so get as much
information as you can to help you write AS a/the person in the
situation/event/issue
}Research
Writing Project guidelines
}First
Person –you ARE the person (I, me, my, we)
}Realistic
Fiction –it is set in the area/situation you researched, based in REALITY
}Possible
Approaches:
◦Memoir
–autobiographical writing that shares narrator’s personal experience
◦Diary
entries
◦Letters
to someone
}Shows
a specific day/series of days or event or issue
}Not
overly filled with statistics (more like fiction, less like non fiction)
}Shows
a universal theme/common issue of human experience through the thoughts,
feelings, actions, plot that you put your narrator in/give your narrator
}First
Person Accounts: chart and question
}Organize
your notes, figuring out what event/situation/issue you are going to be writing
about first
}SSR letter
due tomorrow!
