Thurs. 1/28/16

Learning Target:

• Punctuate dialogue correctly.
• Write an effective narrative lead.

Work Collected:

• Mrs. Boyden checked for 6 squares of storyboarding

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.
• Finish storyboarding (cut apart and reorder)--be ready to work on your rough draft tomorrow
• Handout: punctuating conversation
• Handout: narrative leads

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• If you timed a new rate today, enter that for week 4
• Dialogue review
• Look over the 4 rules on the "Punctuating Conversation" handout
• On the back: try correcting the errors (see answers below)
• Narrative leads
• Look over the 4 techniques and examples
• Try your own leads for your memoir on the back. Remember: try to start in the story to get your reader hooked (Not "When I was eight years old, my family and I...")