Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had a great holiday. Today we are in lab to finish typing our stories and to peer revise or peer edit with a friend using the TAG graphic organizer.

1. Finish typing out your story
   1. Save your story: Class – Name – Story – Title
      For example: E8B – Mike Fuchigami – Story – Give
   2. Share your document with me. (Copy and paste my Google Doc email from our class website)
2. Peer Revising and Peer Editing (TAG)
   1. Share your Google document with someone else who has finished typing. (Type in their name)
   2. Open up your friend’s story
   3. Visit our class website 304.ldhss.ca. Select and copy the TAG graphic organizer.
   4. Paste the TAG graphic organizer at the bottom of your friend’s story.
   5. You are only allowed to provide feedback into the TAG graphic organizer. You are not allowed to revise or edit any part of the story directly.
3. Look at your friends’ feedback and decide which changes you want to make. Do not delete their comments at the bottom

Tag Graphic Organizer

Copy and paste the table below into your friend’s story on Google docs.

Things to look for when you are revising your friend’s work:

If you forget what some of these things are, look at the powerpoint we used in class: http://304.ldhss.ca/handouts-2/

• Make sure the story is written in the first person (For example, I smiled, not Jon smiled.)
• Improve your organization
  • Make your introduction or your climax longer
  • No Falling Action.
  • The Resolution (end) should only be one or two lines long.
• Strong Inferencing: Show, don’t tell
• Rule of Three
• Parallel Structure
• Great Realistic Dialogue
  • You should have some dialogue, but no more than half of your story can be dialogue.
• Strong Imagery
• Building Action
• Come up with a catchy title. A great title is one that catches the reader’s attention and make them want to read more. It should give a hint about the BIG IDEA (theme or lesson) of your story.

Things to look for when you are editing your friend’s work:

• Proper use of quotation marks
  • The end punctuation usually comes before the final quotation mark at the end of the quote.
    For example: Mary said, “Where are we going?”
  • Always capitalize the first word of a direct quotation. Do not capitalize the first word in the second part of an interrupted quote unless the second part begins a new sentence.
    For example: “When it starts to snow,” he said, “put on your heavy coat.”
    For example: “Where did he go?” asked Bob. “We need him.”
• Capitals
• Usage (grammar)
• Punctuation
• Spelling

Style Notes

• Please use black, 12 point font
• Please leave a blank line after each new paragraph so it’s easier to read.

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