In the book project we wrote our own personal narratives . We had the freedom to write almost about any event that has happened in our life. We leaarned about JJD which stands for Journey,Description,Dialougue. Which are important things to have in our narratives.
The first day we got introduced to this project wwe were told to sit down and write about an intership we would want. After Dr.p started juggliing and he threw a ball, Ms.Soler then threw her shoe at him. W e were all very confused on what just happened and Dr.p gave us another prompt which was " Decribe what just happened." Dr.p then explained what our next project was. To start us off we walked to vons and asked random people " What is the American Dream to you?"
Next we wrote a baseline writing piece about a moment you learned from something, I really enjoyed this because it was a topic I could write about and it made think hard. Something that I would change about the baseline writing piece I wrote was I would use more similes/methaphors and use more description of the situation or the setting.
Throughout this project we had several mini activities one of the included acting. We read a story " How I won the right to the Street of Memphis" and we separated the story to different arts and we all had to act out one certain part with our groups. I believe that we did this to improve on dialougue. It wouldve been hard if there was no dialouge and we had nothing to say, but it did so it gave us a feeling on how the mom was for example.
Then came trying to brainstrom on what we were going to write about. We described 15 story we could write about to our table and then we had to vote on which story we liked the most. This was a difficult proccess for me because I didnt feel like the stories I wrote would be interesting or if I could elaborate on them so I finally came to the conclusion that I was going to start fresh and write about something complety different than I originally planned,runnig. Dr.P gave us a story structure called " Hero's Journey" It was a way for ous to put our story to have a start,climax and conclusion. I felt as if that didnt really help me. I struggled to put my story into the format that we were given, so I talked to Dr.P about it and it helped me put it,into the format.
The first day we got introduced to this project wwe were told to sit down and write about an intership we would want. After Dr.p started juggliing and he threw a ball, Ms.Soler then threw her shoe at him. W e were all very confused on what just happened and Dr.p gave us another prompt which was " Decribe what just happened." Dr.p then explained what our next project was. To start us off we walked to vons and asked random people " What is the American Dream to you?"
Next we wrote a baseline writing piece about a moment you learned from something, I really enjoyed this because it was a topic I could write about and it made think hard. Something that I would change about the baseline writing piece I wrote was I would use more similes/methaphors and use more description of the situation or the setting.
Throughout this project we had several mini activities one of the included acting. We read a story " How I won the right to the Street of Memphis" and we separated the story to different arts and we all had to act out one certain part with our groups. I believe that we did this to improve on dialougue. It wouldve been hard if there was no dialouge and we had nothing to say, but it did so it gave us a feeling on how the mom was for example.
Then came trying to brainstrom on what we were going to write about. We described 15 story we could write about to our table and then we had to vote on which story we liked the most. This was a difficult proccess for me because I didnt feel like the stories I wrote would be interesting or if I could elaborate on them so I finally came to the conclusion that I was going to start fresh and write about something complety different than I originally planned,runnig. Dr.P gave us a story structure called " Hero's Journey" It was a way for ous to put our story to have a start,climax and conclusion. I felt as if that didnt really help me. I struggled to put my story into the format that we were given, so I talked to Dr.P about it and it helped me put it,into the format.
One of our final activites was the "Shell Description"we spent a few days decribing a shell to improve our description in our personal narratives. Being descriptive is what helps the reader visualize the situation. So we practiced with descrinbing shells. We would describe a certain shell then give our description to someone else and see if the could find it. Doing this really helped me improve my personal narative.
Fianlly after all the activities I fineshed my perosnal narrative and I could not be more proud. I worked really hard on trying to make it as descriptive as possible, but something that I would change was making it more descriptive so any reader can visualize the setting. I went trhough several drafts and each time I found a way to make it even better.
At exhibition we didnt get much visitors because it was durig school hours,but a golden moment for was listening to other peoples perosnal narratives.