We started out today with the most appropriate picture: Death and the Devil Surprising Two Maidens.
Then, we read Grandma Betty’s Obituary from the Blog of Death. What an amazing woman! Seriously, this is the legacy that I’d like to leave when I die! I love Grandma Betty!
Then, we looked at the Blog of Death in a little more detail. I skimmed through and showed you a few people that were of interest to me, and I showed you how to use the categories, even though I wish there was a place to actually see all of the categories!
The point of that was that we are searching for really good sentences that we can use as models or mentors when we start writing our major grade next week.
You have to find FIVE great opening lines. That is the opening line(s) of an obituary, not the paragraph. You have to find five great endings for an obit, and you’ll need to find five good general lines from anywhere in an obituary.
DO NOT JUST CHOOSE THE FIRST FIVE OBITS THAT YOU FIND AND CHOOSE THREE LINES FROM EACH. That is not the point of this, and it won’t help you write your paper next week. Seriously. This is NOT busy work, so if you get done in five minutes, that’s a sign to me that you just chose random sentences without thought.
Then, if you have time, start the Future Timeline.
So, you’ll start out here. All you need to do here is add your name and the title Future Timeline. and then hit start.
Here, you’ll add your first item. Click on the timeline to see this screen. All you need focus on are the label and the picture. Don’t worry about adding the short or the long description – this is just a pre-writing activity for ideas. You’ll do the writing about it next week.
When you are done, it should look something like this, except yours will be real items. 🙂
If you have to quit BEFORE you are done, you’ll hit SAVE at the top and save it as a RWT file. This is a rough draft. You can’t turn this in.
When you are done, you’ll hit finish and see this screen. Then, you’ll hit SAVE FINAL.
Save this as a PDF and turn this bad boy in.
