Posted by Mr. Reed on 25th April 2008
Last week, we emphasized the need to create a character with a conflict. As you continue working on your longer fiction story, develop your character with “show not tell” details, flashbacks, and other characters.
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Posted by Mr. Reed on 18th April 2008
The literary focus for this week was based on the 3-C literary analysis:
Character
Conflict
Crisis
Write your own beginning of a ”novella” in which one key character is developed.
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Posted by Mr. Reed on 3rd April 2008
In conjunction with reading “My California” the Benicia library is asking 8th graders to write a short essay (200 – 250 words) on an experience they have had in Benicia. Winning essays will be recorded in the library’s California of the Past oral history program. Write a descriptive, detailed, “zoom” account of a memory in Benicia.
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