Week 1 Vocabulary (Focus on a Moment)

The title of our first unit is called

• Moments and Memories

• Perspectives and Narratives

• Using Precise Details

• Focusing on a Moment

A narrative is

• an individual feature, fact, or item

• to write exclusively about one moment or idea in order to fully develop it.

• a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; point of view

• a spoken or written account of connected events; a story

_________ is what someone does.

What does it mean to give your writing a focus?

• to grow, advance or elaborate

• To write exclusively about one moment or idea in order to fully develop it.

• To pay attention

• To add more details

What is perspective?

• a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; point of view

• creating powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind

• the attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience conveyed through word choice

• What someone says

________ details create powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.

To "develop" your writing means to________________.

• reread your writing

• throw it away and start over

• grow, advance or elaborate it

• fix your errors

The following sentence is an example of which vocabulary word?

"I'm just here for a swim team physical!"

• Sensory Detail

• Emotion

• Tone

• Dialogue

Emotion is__________

• an individual fact, feature, or item

• Sadness

• a state of mind based on one's circumstances, mood, and relationships with others; feelings

• Happiness

Sensory details include how something or someone

• Looks

• Sounds

• Smells

• Tastes

• All of the above