Dec 02 2007
People Wear Really Exciting Pants!
Slushy greetings, one and all! Yikes! What a messy world we live in–weather, that is.
So, this week your biographies will be returned so that you can take them home and make some revisions, changes (Writing Process, Step 2). The next step will be creating a second draft to read to someone at home aloud, out loud, perform. Then, as you catch mistakes, or hear pieces of your paper that just don’t come out sounding very smooth, you will make notes on the paper. Some writers do this with colors: markers, highlighters, sticky squares, crayons, etc. The draft comes into MadWords, I check it in, give it back, and you type up your third draft to bring in to class. I will go over this checking on spelling, mechanics, grammar just like we do during Caught’ya! (Third step of writing process–editing.) The draft comes back to you, and you create your final, perfect draft, suitable for holiday gift-giving! (Final step of writing process–publishing!)
Most seriously, people, you should truly think about reading your paper to the person you have written about. This is a big deal to a lot of folks, especially parents or grandparents or siblings! Very heartfelt, very powerful. Doesn’t happen many times in life, so take advantage of the moment!
I think that this post is setting a record for the most exclamation points used! Hooray! I wonder where the exclamation point came from, anyway? I will have to hope for some amazing person to look this up and tell us.
All right, enough about punctuation. Time to go and salt the walk, then drive, ECK! to the store, and get some sourdough bread for dinner. No, sillies, we are not having just bread, we are having pesto sauce with shrimp over some Angel Hair pasta, big yum!
See you in MadWords.
