5G

Our process

1. What is a “narrative”?

2. What is a “personal narrative”?

3. Brainstorming — students came up with 6 ideas for possible personal narratives.

4. Selection — students selected one idea to work on; they saved the other 5 possibilities for another time!

5. Planning — students blocked out at least 4 “scenes” for their story.

6. Rough draft — aka, zero draft, first draft, scratch draft — using our Extreme Writing skills, students dived into their rough draft on scrap paper! They used the clean side of scrap paper and left wide gaps between lines so they could add or rearrange content later. (Also, when a rough draft is done on scrap paper, writing the final draft doesn’t feel like you’re “just copying it over again.” We also only wrote for 20 minutes!

7. Final draft — for homework 09.03.25, students looked over their selection, their plan, and their rough draft. They determined what they liked in what they had, what they wanted to delete, what they wanted to change, and what they wanted to add. And then they wrote!

8. Presentation — on 09.04.25, students read aloud their personal narratives

9. Audience — listeners responded to presenters with at least 5 things they liked about what they’d heard for each personal narrative

10. For next time — each student noted one new idea they had, an idea that came from listening to 8 other personal narratives. We have a great list for next time!

Very impressive work!

Ganbatte!