12/9/16 REvising NANO

12/9/16
Revising your Nano workshop

•Objective: Make any revisions to your story

Bellwork: Write down the objective. Write a question you have for your story. What concern would you like your fellow authors to answer/address about your story?

Spend 5 minutes adding one conversation you heard today into your observation journal.
•Bellwork Check: 11-22 to 12-9 = 11

Assignments: 

•Log onto your Blog through blogger.com
•Review Mrs. Walker’s 12/9/16 post

•Create a NEW page on your BLOG, titled: Your Name, 2016 Nanowrimo Rough Draft.

•Copy and Paste your Nanowrimo to your new Blog page.

•After you paste, add these questions to the bottom:

•1. Based on the beginning what is this Nano story about?  Who is the most important character?

•2. How might the author improve the first line and paragraph to grab readers?

•3. Where and when is the story set? What details might be needed further?

•4. Pick 2 places in the story that the author could add more details to SHOW what things look, sound, smell or even feel like?

•5. List 3 things you really like about the author’s work. Include specifics from the story.

•6. List 3 things the author can work on as they work on the final draft. Give suggestions for improvement.

•7. List 2 questions you had while reading the story.

•8. Author’s own /(bellwork) question: if the main character travels through the spring, where does she go? Is it a time-travel or more a visit to a fantastical place? Is she an observer, or does she “travel” and see the world through a person’s eyes who was already there?

 

•Locate your blog URL. Write it on a small piece of paper.
•Trade your blog url with your groupmates or you may share with the class. This is how you will be reading and editing another author’s work.