Directed Writing: Reconstructed Conversation

As you come to the final stages of the writing process for your second essay, let's review some of the insights you gained by reflecting on your process for the first essay. Click here to access the Google Doc (now in read-only mode!) where you shared some of those insights.

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And now, today's directed writing prompt:

Using reconstructed direct quotation, re-create a conversation where you:

·      Learned something important about your family (or a member of your family) that you didn’t know before

·      Learned something important about a friend that you didn’t know before

·      Figured out something significant about yourself that you weren’t fully aware of

·      Suddenly found yourself liking or respecting someone more, or less.

·      Got some news that either made your day or ruined your day.

Choose two of the options above and write a brief dialogue where you re-create that conversation. Feel free to invent dialogue for yourself and for the other person, but be sure all the dialogue is true to the spirit of the conversation as you remember it. Each dialogue should fill at least one page and no more than two pages of your notebook.

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Spend as much time on this as you need for the remainder of the period. If you finish, you can work on editing your essay in progress.