Writer's Journal entry: Choose a fabulous 1990s yearbook photo from the board and write as the person you choose, in what you think their voice would sound like.
Receive 6 Traits rubric and discuss Voice trait.
Draft a rough draft of an essay about your name
Homework: Your draft is due on Tuesday, August 21. It must be three pages handwritten (a front of a page, a back, and another front) or about 2 1/4 pages typed and double-spaced. This is worth 10 points.
**Remember, you are using your name and the folklore of naming as a starting point for a personal essay. You could go in a folklore direction, a historical direction, an autobiographical direction, or any other connection you can make.
**Remember, this is a ROUGH draft and the goal is to have three pages of thoughts about and connections to your name down on paper. We will work on the organization and details later!
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