Thursday, February 25, 2016

Thursday, Feb. 25 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: What do I still need?
}Get your computer, log on, think of the last question, “What am I missing?”:
Anything that helps answer “What is it like to be    in    dealing with   ?” –what aspect of the life of that person/group do you not know yet? Find answers!
}Research Writing Project guidelines**
}First Person Accounts
}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
}Organize your notes, figuring out what event/situation/issue you are going to be writing about first –if you have thought about this, you can start making a story map (make a copy of the story map shared with you from the first story)
}In order to start writing your story tomorrow (which is where you need to be), you need to have notes on at least 9 sources!!

}SSR Letter due TOMORROW!!

**Research Writing Project Requirements:
}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 =SHOW don’t tell)

}Shows a universal theme/common issue of human experience through the thoughts, feelings, actions, plot that you put your narrator in/give your narrator

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