Writing



In term 1 & 2 we focused on narratives first and then started letter writing. I feel comfortable in narratives because I’m used to writing funny stories but I hadn’t really tried letter writing in class before.
 * Writing **

One of our narratives was the Andy Story. We had to make up a detailed plan and write a story based on something the character Andy (from the ‘Just’ series) would try to do. I had no worries writing the story but it was a little hard typing it as it was 5 pages long. It took me a good 2 hours to finish typing it up at home.
 * Andy Story **



We were all a bit shocked when we got told that we were sending our company letters off to the companies. I wrote my letter to M&Ms to say that they should make dark chocolate M&Ms. It was annoying wasting all that time trying to find their postal address when they don’t have one. I ended up sending mine in an email before anyone else. This letter was formal because we were all writing to managers of companies.
 * Company Letter **



The portal story was another fun narrative that I completed with ease. We had to write this story last year as well because they want to see how much we have improved. I liked my story because I put an interesting twist at the end of that changed a lot of the story. I also like to put a bit of humour in my narratives as well.
 * Portal Story **



The war letter was probably our first letter that we had done in the classroom. We had to write a story that had 50 words in each of the middle paragraphs. This letter was informal which means that you are allowed to use ‘slang’ words.
 * War Letter **



We got taught this year in grade 6 how to put together a proper plan. It felt good to know that now I won’t use any of my other old strategies anymore. First there is the introduction. That’s where you write down about the characters, place, when it took place, what you’re going to do, etc. Then there’s the middle. That's where themain events of the story take place. There is at least 3 paragraphs in the middle section. I keep mine to 3 paragraphs because my prgraphs arelong and if I added any more, my stories would be too big and boring. This is normally how the middle secton in my plan goes:
 * Planning my Stories **

Paragraph 1. Problem starts Paragraph 2. Find away to stop it Paragraph 3. Finally stop it.

In the middle paragraphs you would have 'flesh'. Flesh is more information about what happens in a middle paragraph:

Paragraph 1. Monster is in the city. Flesh Destroying buildings Eating cars Taking innocent lives.

That is 1 paragraph of a 'fleshed' plan. Next is the conclusion. That is what happens after the problem is solved.

Editing is the process after you finish the story. You edit capital letters, fullstops, quotation marks, etc. As well as words not making sense, adding words to make more sense, adding adjectives to make the story more interesting, and even changing sentences or big chunks to make it sound better. Once you’ve done that, you’ve done your story!
 * Editing **