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Crafting Powerful Life Stories
Crafting Powerful Life Stories
Improving the quality of all writing by building on our knowledge about personal narratives. Learning the techniques, strategies and approaches to craft engaging, powerful narratives to learn lasting knowledge and skills of writers.
Generating Personal Narratives
Generating Personal Narratives
Session 1
Starting with turning points
Session 2
Determining the dream of the story
Session 3
Letting other authors' words awaken our own
Session 4
Telling the story from inside it
Session 5
Taking stock and setting goals
Moving Through The Writing Process: Rehearsing, Drafting, Revising, and editing
Moving Through The Writing Process: Rehearsing, Drafting, Revising, and editing
Session 6
Flash drafting: Putting our stories on the page
Session 7
What's this story really about? Redrafting to bring out meaning
Session 8
Bringing forth the story arc
Session 9
Elaborating on important parts
Session 10
Adding scenes from the past and future
Session 11
Ending stories
Session 12
Putting on the final touches
Learning from Mentor Texts
Learning from Mentor Texts
Session 13
Reading with a writer's eye
Session 14
Taking writing to the workbench
Session 15
Stretching out the tension
Session 16
Catching the action or image that produced an emotion
Session 17
Every character plays a role
Session 18
Editing: The power of commas
Session 19
Mechanics
Session 20
Reading aloud your writing: A ceremony of celebration
Session 21
Transferring learning: Applying narrative writing skills across the curriculum
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