Writing Process
the first step in the writing process
What is Brainstorm
What do you call a word that tells you the action someone does?
What is a verb?
What punctuation is used to indicate spoken words?
What is Quotation Mark
What do you call the part of the plot at the beginning where the audience learns the characters, setting, and the conflict? The conflict is just at the end of this part....
(Technically I have to make sure you know this as readers... but writers know the conflict is too important to gloss over)
Exposition
Edit this sentence: You will take out one word, add two punctuation.
I love ice cream and one day my mom woke me up to tell me we were going to get ice cream.
TAKE OUT THE AND.
REPLACE IT WITH A PERIOD.
I love ice cream. One day, my mom woke me up to tell me we were going to get ice cream.
This step is where you outline your story so you know that you have a beginning, middle, end, climax, and lesson at the end!
What is Plan
What is a word that is always capitalized?
What is "I"
What is the term for a conversation between two or more characters
What is dialogue
Name the part of the plot where the tension begins to build as the character tries to solve the problem?
(This is the longest part of the plot with the most incidents)
What is the rising action?
Edit this sentence: Make three changes
Moving forward i will never jump off the monkey bars again
Moving forward, I will never jump off the monkey bars again.
This is the step AFTER you draft where you make sure you have correct CUPS: Capitalization, Understanding, Punctuation, and Spelling
What is edit?
What do you call a word that replaces another noun?
What is a pronoun
How should you format your story when a different character speaks in a conversation?
Start a new line or paragraph
What term describes the main problem or conflict in a story that gets the plot started?
What is the inciting Incident?
This is the step where you write your plan. Adding details, flourishes, dialogue, etc.
What is draft?
What type of sentence is that?
What is a run on sentence?
Write this sentence correctly on your white board:
Bigfoot is real she whispered.
"Big Foot is real," she whispered.
What is the term for the sequence of events that make up a story?
What is Plot
Edit this sentence:
My mom and aunt came home and I could tell she was mad.
My mom and aunt came home. I could tell my mom was mad.
*Various.
This is the step when you read your story out loud to check for sentence fluency.
You change anything that is confusing or not strong enough. You change words to be more specific.
What is revise.
What do you call a noun that the pronoun refers to?
An antecedent
The thing about Bigfoot said the man is that he is just tired.
"The thing about Bigfoot," said the man, "is that he is just tired."
What is the part of the plot where you learn how everything changes and the major lessons that were learned.
*COUGH* ALL 6th graders... CHECK THIS PART TODAY!
What is the resolution?
"Don't forget," she warned "you have a test on Monday."
"Don't forget," she warned, "you have a test on Monday."