September
14
ELA A10: Sept 14 Writing class 1 of 3…
- Students have spent some time planning their short stories. Today is the first of three classes for them to begin writing and developing their story.
- We discussed the focus of “showing and not telling” where you add a lot of details, imagery, or dialogue from characters to help create the action, as opposed to just saying what’s there or happening.
- We also discussed the strategy of spacing out information about characters or setting throughout the story, as opposed to “dropping in” a paragraph describing everything about one character or the setting. This may be the habit with writers who are new to the process, but we recognize in literature we read that we constantly are told more things throughout the story, instead of getting bulk pieces of information.