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.

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.

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.

The art of creative writing is actually the art of painting with words. Select from one of the description prompts from this week to write an incredibly detailed description or scene. Let the details pull us in to your “world.”