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**Descriptive Writing Unit Week 1**  **__Monday: Heart Territories Map__**  Please finish your writing territories heart map - we WILL be using these all year

**__Tuesday:__** //**"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." ~ Henry David Thoreau**// __Descriptive Writing Unit __ Cross-Generational Questionnaire -due Wednesday 9-15

**__Wednesday:__** **//"If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going." ~ Wendell Berry//** 1) Please read student 1 and student 2's mentor text that were INSPIRED by the author of the original poem. Note how they emulated without plagiarizing her poem. Also note how each student ended their poems with a staisfying concluding stanza, in the mood of Lyon but distinctly his or her own. 2) Today, using your Cross-Generational Questionaire and your Heart Map - you will try your hand at [|EMULATING] George Ella Lyon's poem - Where I'm From. 3) Please write your draft in a word document. 4) In the last 10 minutes in class - use the file icon (green picture frame icon) to upload your draft onto your wiki page. 5) When it has uploaded, type in your authorly comments: Example - Draft 1: I feel like I have a good start here. I am currently working on word choice and I feel like I want to polish the ending. If the upload process does not work...don't worry! We will get there! I will be back to help!  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Thursday**__**: Finding your focus** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//**"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." ~Alexander Graham Bell**// <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As author Ralph Fletcher describes in his book, __How to Write Your Life Story__, "If you're eleven years old you have already been alive for at least 4,017 days. Those days contain thousands of experiences.." Fantastic/furious friend moments, perfect/perfectly maddening parent pictures pop to mind, and a zillion other super/sad, silly, shout to the stars snapshot moments. So...how do you choose what to write about? <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**__Friday:__** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Prefixes, Roots and Suffix Study Test on Friday, September 17 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">