3rd Six Weeks ELA Overview
By Wade Alford
Revising and Editing Techniques
- Rainbow Editing: Use colors and go over grammar, spelling, or other writing techniques.
- Rough/ Final Draft: If you're writing a short story, write a rough draft, write what you think you want on a piece of paper, then write a final draft, write the things you want off the rough draft on another paper and fix mistakes you might have done on the other paper.
Forms of Point of View
First Person: The narrator of the story is apart of the story and is many times the main character. You can tell it's first person when the story says "I" or "me" many times.
Second Person: The story-teller tells the story to another character using 'you', 'your', 'you're'.
Third person: The narrator is not a part of the story and uses the words he, she, him, her, etc.
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Setting & Plot Developement
Setting: Where the story takes place, either in the ocean, traveling on land, or up in the sky.
Plot: Describes that make up a story or the main part of the story (literarydevices.net).
The Importance of Setting & Plot
Without plot, the story wouldn't have a purpose, it'll just say random things.
With setting, the reader can picture where the story is happening and see how it affects the story.