Tuesday, Feb.18 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 minutes Independent Reading
• Writer’s Workshop
• What my comments mean
• Dialogue (natural), Show don’t Tell/more showing, development of aspects of a short story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution), character details (backstory, relationships)
• First Draft Evaluation: Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, Developing, Beginning
• Meet with me
• Revise from second/third if you have Comments from me and have figured out where to start with those comments 
• Revising: working to make the ideas of your story stronger, adding more showing/details, removing parts that don’t work, adding more character detail, move ideas and sentences around, substitute words (stronger descriptions, details, etc)
• Editing Draft:
• Re-Title your draft: Name Editing Draft and make sure it is the one in the Classroom assignment (end of block)