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Students will describe a picture, using it as the basis of a story. The student must create the setting (What happened before the picture?) the conflict (What is happening in the picture?) and the resolution (What happened after the picture?). Writing will be graded on capitalization, punctuation, use of main idea and supporting details, spelling of high frequency words, dialogue, plural and possessive noun use, subject/verb tense and agreement, and descriptors using 5 senses with similes.

Vivid Language Sentence Structure and Grammar Idea Organization, Development and Supporting Details.

Autobiography of student's life or a part of student's life.

Rubric for Re-Outline of the Deep Structure of a First Draft (A Revision Technique): List of Topic Sentences of Each Paragraph of Your Partner’s Essay (Quoted Verbatim), Main Ideas of Each (Restated in Your Own Words), and One Important Undeveloped Idea in Each Paragraph (20 points/100): List of Developed and Undeveloped Topics and Ideas About Those Topics (35 points/100): Suggested Body Paragraph, With Topic Sentence (From the List Above) for the First Draft of Your Partner’s “Mock World Literature Assignment #1” (25 points/100): Suggested New Thesis Statement and Title for Your Partner’s Essay (20 points/100):

Gr. 6-8 Narrative Writing

Writing about an experience.