Writing with Emotion

In class right now, we are getting started with writing narratives again! We are so excited about this! We are learning many different ways to generate narratives. So far we have come up with:

• Think of a person, place or thing that matters to you, then list clear, small moments you remember. Choose one to sketch and then write a story about that moment.
• Think of the first or last time you did something and write about it.
• Think of a mentor author that you admire and write a story that theirs reminds you of.
• Think of a family story.
• Think of an emotion and write about a time when you felt that emotion.

We came up with some emotions and listed times when we felt them. Here is what we came up with on our first day:

The next day, we chose four emotions and told stories "out in the air" to our friends and then wrote the story in our charts in our writing journals.

Finally, we can start writing our emotion story! We chose our favorite one from our chart above and started writing! We know that a story has a beginning, middle and end, but we haven't gotten to the end yet! We wrote with descriptive detail, so the story is taking time to write out!

Show someone at your house your emotion story and see what they think about it! Did they give you any constructive criticism? Leave a comment and let us know what they thought!