Personal Narratives
Before writing our personal narrative essays, we took some time to prewrite. First we wanted to come up with ideas. We wrote down ideas that ran through our minds. What do we call this step:
brainstorming flash thinking stormbraining
Brainstorming
One key to writing a successful research report is to find information. In this class, where did we focus on finding information?
The internet
When prewriting for a problem/solution essay, you might want to start with a T chart. On one side of the chart you write a problem. What do you write on the other side of the chart?
Solution(s)
Name the other members of this class, besides yourself.
Answers will vary
Last year, this classmate's team won a school soccer competition, but this year the competition was disappointing and the team took 3rd place out of 4. The reason (according to the classmate) was because the team hadn't practiced enough.
KK
Name two parts of a story mountain.
Answers will vary
When writing our personal narrative, we all chose the same way to present our information. Which way did we choose?
A) Interviews with major characters
B) Time order
C) Drawings
Time Order
What do we call the small piece of information that we insert in our essays (inside of parentheses) that shows our teacher where we found our information?
Citation
TRUE or FALSE
Citations in a problem/solution essay follow exactly the same rules as citations in a research essay.
True
This classmate was bitten by a dog and feared getting rabies.
Annie
This classmate is having fun learning to play foose ball.
John
When writing a personal narrative we focus on problems that help move the story forward. What do we call these problems. (Hint, the answer begins with the letter "C")
Conflicts
At the end of the essay we made a page called the Works Cited page. On this page we listed the sources of our information. What piece of information usually comes first when listing information about a source?
A) Author's Name
B) Date of the article
C) URL of the article
Author's name
When writing a problem/solution essay, we may want to make some big changes before turning our work into the teacher. For example, we might want to move paragraphs or delete entire sentences. What would these types of changes be called?
A) Revising
B) Editing
Revising
This classmate plays the sport he did a lot of writing about: hockey
Andy
This classmate likes to go shopping for squishy toys. Oh, and this classmate also likes to sell the toys her classmates. Are we looking at a future squishy millionaire?
Annie
We described the setting in our personal narratives. What is a setting?
Where the story takes place (and when, too).
When writing a five paragraph research essay, how many specific points would we write about in order to complete all five paragraphs.
Three
In order to present solutions, we have to be sure that we make our problem clear to our readers. We call making the problem clear...
A) Defining the problem
B) Excusing the problem
C) Confusing the problem
Defining the problem
This classmate took trips during the term to compete in programming competitions - and he got better and better at it!
John
On May 13, this classmate had a birthday and turned 13. We wonder if he celebrated by playing some hockey.
Andy
When teachers assign a personal narrative, they usually ask you to describe a time you _______ a lesson because they want to understand how you were changed by the situation in the story.
learned
TRUE OR FALSE
When writing a conclusion to a research essay, we should be sure to include new information.
False
To help write our essay, we might use a quote taken from a speech in a video we see online.
Is this quote a primary source or a secondary source?
Primary
This classmate completed a full sheet of math problems and then went to Hong Kong to discuss it!
KK
Talk about unusual! April 29 was a holiday in China, but several students showed up for class, anyway. It was class number 9. The next week we repeated class 9 with everybody in attendance. Now the question: Who taught both of those classes?
Mr. Hawley