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Revising/Editing
11. After meeting with your partner and hearing his or her feedback, revise and edit your narrative writing. Consider adding, rearranging, or deleting to make your work stronger.
12. Edit the final version for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Produce a final draft of your polished work.
ACTIVITY 4
Independent Writing
WRITING PROMPT: Write a nonfiction narrative on an incident of your choice. Your narrative should have a clear focus and communicate the impact the experience had on you. Consider an experience that is important to you and that you believe would benefit other eighth graders (other than the topics already chosen). Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task on the next page to guide your writing. Your essay should meet the requirements listed in the Learning Targets for nonfiction narratives.
Be sure to:
• Use dialogue, pacing, and description to develop the setting, characters, and
events
• Organize events, reactions, and reflections to create a clear, logical sequence
• Include a variety of descriptive techniques—careful diction, specific details,
sensory descriptions, and figurative language—to engage the reader
• Use a variety of sentence openings and sentence types, including verbals, to
vary emphasis and syntax
• Provide a conclusion that follows from the events of the experience and
reflects on its significance to the narrator
Use the process, examples, goals, and revision strategies from your previous activities to accomplish your task, including the graphic organizers you’ve used previously to help you plan and revise your writing.
My Notes
Writing Workshop 7 • Narrative Nonfiction 11
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