2. Groups Get into groups of four Each member of the group will be assigned a special role by the teacher and given instructions. Give a copy of your personal narrative to a group member. Go in a circle and take turns reading each person’s narrative silently and completing the assigned task you have for your group.

3. -This should take about 5 minutes and there shouldn’t be any talking. -After doing your job, write on the back of the essay one thing you liked about it and two things that were either confusing or that you have advice about. -When all this is finished, go to the next person in the group and follow the same procedure until everyone in the group has had their essay read and revised by each member. Your own group role can be done to your own essay at home if time does not allow in class.

4. Personal Narrative Pilot Things you are looking for: -Introduction with 3-5 sentences -What is the grabber, foreshadowing, setting? -3 body paragraphs with at least 5 sentences each -Conclusion with 3-5 sentences

5. Sparkling Synonym Seeker Things to be looking for: -Circle “powerful” words -Highlight Lifeless words that need to be replaced with “Sparkling Synonyms” -Find action verbs and nouns that can be more precise.

6. Grammar Guru Thing you are looking for: -Circle words with questionable spelling errors -Underline the letter at the beginning of the sentences as well as any proper nouns that should be capitalized -Check for punctuation at the end of each sentence -Look for run on sentences or fragments and good places to combine

7. Picture Painter/ Dialogue Director Things you are looking for: -Find “telling” sentences and help turn them into “showing” sentences -Pictures that are painted with words -Look for figurative language -Look for Brushstrokes -Look for Dialogue punctuated correctly

8. What Next?` -After you receive your revisions from the group, go through and fix the errors they found at home on you saved work. -Add sparkling synonyms -Can you add more of what people liked? -Can you change what people did not understand or what they advised you to do?