Rough Draft Due Thursday
Final Draft Due Friday:
A favorite saying of mine is an old New Englander quote “Once burned, twice shy,” which is simply a pithy way to say we naturally learn from our mistakes and that hard experiences are often the best teachers.
In this paragraph (again 300-350 words) choose a difficult experience from your life that taught you a good life lesson—and share the lesson you learned.
- Don't simply “tell” us what happened. In the setup and smacking gun use as much vivid and specific detail to paint a movie in our minds.
- Along with the who what when where why, try to engage our senses of sound (dialogue) sight (images), touch, smell, and taste—if it is relevant to the experience. (It usually is!)
- Read each section carefully to be sure you are following the flow of the rubric. A narrative writing piece needs to have the natural flow of human speech to be effective. If it is too choppy, it will be an ineffective piece because it won't feel or sound real.
- Remember that no writing piece is ever “done.” It is abandoned. Before you abandon this piece, let it sit for a couple of days, then go back to it.
- When you are ready to abandon it, record it as a podcast or a short video essay and post it on your blog and as a single document in your Quip folder.
TUESDAY HOMEWORK: Go to Quip and work for 30 minutes on the "Learning from Mistakes" Paragraph Rubric. Remember to use the app on the iPad, not the browser. Here is a link to the document on Quip. Always make a copy and save to your folder.
If you need to use a Word doc, I have attached the rubric as a word doc, which will open in Pages.
You can also view the narrative paragraph rubric here under Resources
learning_from_mistakes_.docx |