Friday, October 10, 2014

CONCRETE AND SIGNIFICANT DETAILS/ROUGH DRAFT

SENIORS: You worked in your groups of 4 to rewrite a paragraph using significant details.  Here is the link describing the difference between concrete and significant details.  That link also has the paragraph that needs revision.  Put the revised paragraph in your notebook under the title Concrete and Significant Details.

SOPHOMORES: You had class time to work on the rough draft of your short story. Here is the link (again) for what needs to be present in the rough draft.  Besides having those elements present, you need to highlight and identify where they appear in the rough draft.  You won't need to highlight and identify dialogue because that will be obvious due to punctuation.  You might not have a clear theme yet that you can highlight; so for that, just write your theme at the bottom of the rough draft.

Also, in order to make your descriptions more vivid, I introduced the techniques of using concrete and significant details.  Here is the link for examples.  Ignore the paragraph that begins, "I was quite poor..." 

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