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Welcome to Lesson #53Today you will learn:1. How to create paragraphs

from a graphic organizer.2. To assess your story using a

rubric.

Personal and Imaginative Narratives

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You will need your graphic organizer to use for this lesson. We are going to follow the process to create a complete story from it.

Personal and Imaginative Narratives

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Let’s look at my graphic organizer to get started . . .

Personal and Imaginative Narratives

Completed Graphic Organizer

Talk out the story with someoneand see if it makes sense…

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In this lesson we will look at the hook only, but you will follow the same process for each part of your organizer. . .

Personal and Imaginative Narratives

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Hook: I focused on ‘Image’ for my beginning. This works for my story. Let’s look at the hook and analyze why I picked an image to begin the story.

What do you think?

Personal and Imaginative Narratives

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The freshly fallen snow was piled high in every direction. I eagerly looked out the window to see how much the winter storm left behind before it moved out to sea. All boundaries of property were gone. The landscape was one large white canvas waiting for the artist to make his first mark. The sky was an azure blue in stark contrast to the

The Hook

WritingThe Hook continued…dazzling white. The sun’s rays bounced off the white glistening snow that blanketed the earth as far as the eye could see. It was a child’s world, a marvelous winter wonderland that allowed the imagination of possibilities come to life. There was so much we could do. We could build tunnels, forts, slides, and sculptures better than ever before. It would be only moments

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The Hook continued…before the neighborhood kids would begin to empty out onto the canvas to make their mark. Then from every corner of the house you could hear shouts of joy as our father announced the plan. He would be taking us all on a sledding trip to the best hill in town, Hospital Hill, as it was called. The hillwas just behind the hospital, and

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The Hook continued…that is how it got its name. However it took on a whole new meaning for my family and me that day.

How Is the hook effective?

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What did I do from the graphic organizer map to the paragraph?

How Is the hook effective?The image of the snow set the mood and excitement for the story!

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What I did from the graphic organizer to the paragraph:

I added details (elaborations) so the reader can see the snow and feel my excitement too. The graphic organizer is just bullets of things I wantto remember to put into my story with more details.

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How to write your story from the graphic organizer map:

1. Add details (elaborations) using your senses for the important parts of the story

2. Stretch one idea that is important. Don’t write a list of things. Choose the important part and stretch the action out.

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How to write your story from the graphic organizer map:

3. Keep a single focus from beginning of the story to the end.4. The ‘Wow Moment’ or ‘Main Event’ should be the most detailed and exciting part of your story…as in slow motion.

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How to write your story from the graphic organizer map:

5. The ‘Tie Up’ sums up the experience in another way using one of the acronyms: MADHW.

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Let’s read the rest of my story about an accident I had when I was only 5 years old.

Hospital Hill

Revising/Editing Writing

Follow the Revising / Editing Checklists to work with your first draft…

Revising Checklist

Editing Checklist

Coaching Feedback

Writing Rubric

How did you do?

Self-Assessment Rubric

How to interpret your results….

Writing Rubric

How did you do?

1. Mastered: you are able to do this well all the time.

2. Making Progress: you are getting there. It shows sometimes but not always.

3. Needs Work: Not showing ability in this area yet.

Reading is Thinking Practice:

Read the following passage: Exodus 3:16-22, The Message

Respond in your journal on the following:

1.What is the main idea of this passage? (Make sure you support your opinion by using the text.)

2. Choose a CROPQV, one that is most meaningful for you with this passage.

Share your CROPQV in the Discussion Forum with others taking this course! Here are some questions I want you to reflect on in your journal:

A. What did God want Moses to tell the leaders of Israel?

B. What should Moses expect?

Remember to support your answers and show your thinking!

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Good-Bye, until next time!

Have fun turning your completed graphic organizer into paragraphs! You will be proud of a job you worked hard on. Keep up your reading! Use the CROPQV to show reading is thinking!