Writing

62
ECG
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Use pages 311-314 to guide your Brainstorming and Outline
Vignette
A vignette is a short DESCRIPTIVE literary work (750 words or less) that focuses on a specific event, incident, or scene
Should be a Memoir
Non-Fiction = REAL (REALLY HAPPENED TO YOU IN YOUR LIFE)
What is a hardship?
Divorce
Outline
Paragraph 1: Describe hardship
Paragraph 2: What do people tell you about coping with it?
Paragraph 3: How does the hardship make you feel?
Paragraph 4: What hope or solution people offer you that doesn't really help?
Paragraph 5: Describe the event that shows how YOU cope or deal with the hardship. (USE LOTS OF DETAILS)
Paragraph 6, 7, 8: Continue to describe the event. Use DIALOGUE with "quotations."
Paragraph 9: Here you should have a tone shift. Explain how you are preparing or the future
Paragraph 10: What is your final action so far in the event
Paragraph 11: How could this relate to others? How does in some way everyone experience something similar? Or what can be learned?
Hardships can be large or small
Brainstorm 12 ideas
Think of a Hardship you Faced
Writing
Hardship Vignette
Fear
Bullying
Can't do something
Illness
Death
Bad grade
Not being prepared
New School
Physical or Emotion Trait you wish was different
Faulty Love
New Situation
Write in 2nd Person = YOU
Write brief sentences and DESCRIBE.
Show your experience rather than tell!
A tough subject
Divorce
Breaking Up
Getting out of bed
Saying a hard word in English
Buying Mom a present
Fighting with a sibling
Asking for help