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#2 – 2nd Fluency: Showing, Not Telling (9.14) - This is the heading for the table of contents AND for above your response.

Revise one of the following tell sentences into a show paragraph:

They lived happily ever after.

or

Reality set in.

Directions for Fluency Exercises:

Write as much as you can during the time given. The focus in on getting ideas and details down on the paper, rather than on getting the grammar and punctuation perfect. Keep writing instead of editing what you have written.

Pay attention to organization, but not so much that it limits your writing. Stream of consciousness is better than a blank page.

If you are struggling to get started, try changing the prompt a little. Change “he” to “she”; “cat” to “dog”; “worst” to “best” and see if it helps.

Remember to chart the word count in the back of your notebook!

3 – “Cranes” Pre-Reading (9.14) - This is the heading for the table of contents AND for above your response.

The following list of words represents ideas that are meaningful to all people, all times, all places.

Each of the ideas appears in the story we will read.

I want you to think about what you believe about these ideas. From your experience and reading: What do you believe is true about these ideas and how they work in life?

Consider these concepts:

Abandonment

Belonging

Civil War

Escape

Innocence

Loyalty

Separation

Change

Killing

Forgiveness

Directions:

1. In your literacy notebook, write down 3 – “Cranes” Pre-Reading (9.14) as a heading

2. Choose THREE of these concepts.

3. Then, under that heading, write down what you believe about each of those concepts (use the example above as a model)

For example:

Loyalty

I believe that loyalty to built upon trust.

I believe that loyalty can change when trust is broken.