Using Visual Writing Prompts to Create Dialogue

#engchat Remember those visual writing prompts I had you find last week? Today we are going to be using them to create a dialogue.  Your purpose for this dialogue is to highlight character/personality of the people in the visual. Things to note: · There must be at least two people participating in this dialogue. ·  Each person must speak at least five times. ·  Descriptive tags should be utilized to...

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Thinking about Dialogue

#engchat #mbedu Discuss the dialogue that you overhead: 1.    Talk about the process of eavesdropping:                                                  i.      Where did you go?                                                ii.       How...

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Mini-Lesson: Dialogue

The best way to learn about how to write dialogue effectively, is to go out and observe dialogue in it's natural habitat! Your mission is to go out into the school and eavesdrop in on a conversation. Listen to the conversation for about 10 minutes, record the content and your observations.  Make your notes as specfic as possible as we will be debriefing as a class upon your return. Happy Creepi...

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Another Great Writing Prompt Site!

Yesterday we did some "Digital Quickwrites". In today's class we are going to expand on this work, BUT . . . We are going to use the prompts to help us climb into the image and tell the story. How? I'm glad you asked!  Let me tell you a little bit about our good friend imagery. Writers choose their words very specifically, in order to appeal the senses of the reader.  This descriptive...

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Digital Quick Writes

#engchat #edchat #mbedu Today we're going to be doing another round of digital quick writes.  Use the link below to find visual prompts to inspire 2 quickwrites. Type and post your quickwrites on your blog.  We'll do two quickwrites and then give time for you to explore and comment on the quickwrite your classmates created. http://writingprompts.tumblr.c...

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Reading Assignment #7

#engchat #mbedu Character POV- Creating Conversations This week we will be extending upon the "Character POV Tweet" assignment we did a few weeks ago. For Reading Assignment #6 you will be creating tweets from a minimum of three character's perspectives-  and you will be creating conversation between these three characters. You will be writing 25 tweets total, and you will need to pay particular attention to Twitter format.  Be sure to give each character a unique Twitter handle, use the @username format to direct Tweets at...

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Dear Photograph Awesome-ness

#dearphotograph #engchat #mbedu Though I'd share some "Dear Photograph" awesome-ness created by Ashlyn E.  I've re-posted one of her masterpieces below, but check out the link to her blog to see more of her amazing project.  http://ashlynerickson.blogspot.ca/2013/09/dear-photographs.h...

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Reading Assignment #6- Fine Tuning Your Text Connections

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