Me In This Moment

Me In This Moment is a personal narrative writing project. Over the course of six lessons, young people will tell the story of a memorable moment in their lives.

Lesson One – A timeline of memorable moments

In the first lesson, we hear from acclaimed author Jason Reynolds, who explains his thinking behind how he wrote a memorable moment in the book Ghost. Ms. Kyley then guides us in thinking about five memorable moments in our lives.

Lesson Two – making a writing plan

In this lesson Ms. Kyley guides us through making a plan for our story, using the structure the emotion starts, the emotion gets bigger, the emotion wraps up. Before doing this lesson, you should read this excerpt from Ghost by Jason Reynolds, our mentor text.

Lesson Three – using a checklist

In this lesson Ms. Kyley shows us a checklist that includes different things we can do to make our story compelling, and gets us ready to write our first draft.

Lesson Four – see what I saw, feel what I felt

In this lesson, Ms. Kyley guides us in revising our writing. We go back over our draft and to find places where we can add more description that will help the readers see what we saw, and feel what we felt.

Lesson Five – using dialogue and internal thinking

In this lesson, we continue to revise our writing, looking for places where we can add what characters were saying and thinking.

Lesson Six – How did I do? Self-assessment

In the final lesson, we read our writing, then take a look at the checklist to see how we did. We use that to put any final touches on our writing.