Creating an Event Sequence: Jot Notes About the Sequence

Today you will choose at least one idea and create an event sequence.  Yesterday you practiced the idea web, here is the second strategy we will practice:  

• Jot Notes About the Sequence:  Fold a piece of paper into three sections.  Label the sections:  beginning, middle, end.  Jot notes about what happens in each part.  use the notes to practice telling the story aloud, highlighting or circling parts to use and crossing off parts that don't move the piece along.  To help with the sequencing, it may be useful to number parts of the notes within each section before writing the story on another paper. 
• If you are using your google docs, tables work well for this.  I'll show how I use tables in class then post it below. 

Here is my idea list from yesterday.  Again, I am going to practice the strategies above using one idea.  

• Finishing my first half marathon
• Raising my first litter of puppies 
• My trip to Yellowstone National Park
• My trip to the Pacific Ocean
• The year I was bullied in school
• Writing my first book
• Planning my daughters wedding
• The last Christmas with my grandma
• Moving to Grand Forks
• Teaching my son in 2nd grade
• The year my husband was deployed
• Surviving a car accident
• Memories of my 5th grade year
• etc...