Character: The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros -- writing about a character
Courage: Cold prompt -- What is courage?
Read The Cats of Krasinsky Square by Karen Hesse. Revisit writing about courage.
Images: Water Dance by Thomas Locker -- example of creating images
Parallel structure: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – Martin Luther King, Jr. – model for parallel structure – See pages 50-51 of Sentence Composing for Middle School by Don Killgallon.
Parallel structure: Night – Elie Wiesel, pg. 32 “Never shall I forget. . .”
Parallel structure: Tears of a Tiger – Sharon M. Draper, pgs. 104-105 “I remember. . .”
Parallel structure: Rimshots, Charles R. Smith, pg. 5 “I remember. . . “
These were suggested by Janette Grimshaw, Independence High School
Prompts: The Important Book Margaret Wise Brown The important thing about _______ is. . .
