Authors as Mentors: Apprenticing Ourselves to Writers We Admire

1. Authors as Mentors: Apprenticing Ourselves to Writers We Admire Unit 7: Part II Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

2. Get ideas for stories based on small everyday events in your lives. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

3. Walking My Dog Molly (small event topic) (Things that happened different times I walked my dog) She chases a squirrel up a tree She stops and digs a hole She barks at the neighbor’s cat She pulls me so I think she’s walking me instead of me walking her A little boy stops riding his bike to pet her She licks the boy in the face She finds a stick that’s bigger than she is and tries to drag it home Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

4. One Way to create a beginning, middle, and end is to structure your stories around different times in a day. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

5. Walking My Dog Molly MorningAfternoonEvening She barks at chases squirrel A little boy the neighbor’s digs hole stops riding cat walks me his bike to drags big sticks pet her She licks his face Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

6. Write story beginnings with a big bang like Jonathan London does! Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

7. Read Parts of work by Jonathan London in order to improve the choice of words when writing. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

8. Jonathan London Text Excerpts From Puddles We kneel and watch worms squirm and stretch and leave tiny trails in the muck like sloppy writing-they’re learning the ABCs of weather, of rain and sun and mud. From Like Butter on Pancakes Beyond the rim of morning the sun ticks the birds talk and the spoons sleep nestled in the kitchen drawers. First light melts like butter on pancakes, spread warm and yellow across your pillow. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

9. How to bring Your readers to halt by using the dash the way Jonathan London does. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

10. Ways to end stories like Jonathan London has Ended some of his books. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

11. + Use Owl Moon to help inspire new topics to write about Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

12. Read Owl Moon like a Writer to discover different writing strategies to use when writing about something you do often with someone you care about. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

13. Write about one idea across time the way Jane Yolen does in No BathTonight. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

14. Elaborate each time-scene by Telling More and More the Way Jane Yolen Does in No BathTonight. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

15. Use beautiful language the way Jane Yolen does in her books. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2

16. Writers use an editing checklist before they publish. Writing Unit 7-Authors as Mentors Part 2