Session 5: Writing Your Draft

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Begin First Drafts

Support your group as they write out the beginning section of their story spines using complete sentences and details. Students can keep the sentence starters from the story spine, or rewrite them if they prefer. They will do this on a computer or iPad (if they have access to one in their classroom), or on the blank pages below.

BEGINNING: Once, I was… (Who are you in general?) ________________________________________________________________________________

Every day, I thought of myself as …. (Explain how you viewed yourself and how you wanted others to view you.) ________________________________________________________________________________

But one day.. (Explain the misunderstanding that happened) ________________________________________________________________________________