Writing Short Stories: Day 5 Memo and RevisionFriday, October 3, 2014Honors and Regular MYP

Objective, Agenda, & Homework

•Objective: Students will revise their writing and explain their goals for their writing.

•Agenda: ▫Memo▫Highlighting Sentence Variety▫Revising or Reading Time

•Homework: ▫Regular: Study Greek roots 1-16 for

Wednesday’s quiz.▫Honors: Greek roots 26-30 sheet is due

Monday.

Memo Requirements: Short Story

▫Write your writer’s memo in one paragraph that answers all of the following questions.

1. What is your theme and how is it demonstrated? 2. How did you develop your character using the methods of characterization within the plot of the story? 3. What point of view did you choose and why?4. What are your strengths and weaknesses? 5. What feedback would you like from me?

Highlighting Sentence Variety•You will need to reread your short story. As

you read, you will look for at least 2 examples of each of the following sentence types and highlight them with the following colors. ▫Yellow = Compound Sentences▫Pink = Complex Sentences ▫Blue = Items in a Series▫Green = Compound-Complex Sentence(s)

(Honors Only – only 1 example needed)•This will allow me to know that you

understand each type of sentence when I score you on sentence variety.

Scoring SheetOVERALL SCORE:

2Limited

Minimal Inappropriate

4Adequate

Some

6CompetentConsiderabl

eSubstantial

8Sophisticated

EffectivelyPerceptive

Theme        

Point of View        

Characterization

       

Plot        

Setting        

Sentence Structure and Variety

       

Writing and Revising •After you have highlighted some of your

sentences, start working on revising. ▫Replace▫Add▫Delete▫And▫Reorder

•You MUST submit a draft of your short story today. ▫You may use one of my colored pens to

revise.

Independent Reading•For the remainder of class, you may read

your choice book or edit your short story with the colored pens.