Monday, September 24, 2012

Revision work

OK, so I cant really tell y'all whats going on in my book at the moment without spoiling a huge important part in it so you'll just have to read it for yourselves.    Its such a good book, plus it's fiction, so that's always a good thing:)  Clare's description and attention to detail is superb as always and its hard to put down.  So because of this, I'm going to talk about my narrative revisions.
       My literacy narrative is about how reading a dreadfully boring non-fiction book in first grade changed my outlook on reading and got me to stay away from the genre for quite a while.  For my revision I plan on adding vivid detail as well as change some word choice in a few spots and add a little more dialogue to emphasize why I chose the book in the first place.  That I needed to do some research for.  About halfway through class today, while working on the narrative, I remembered an important detail as to why I had not minded that the book was on Benjamin Franklin- I had been hooked to a television show called Liberty's Kids at the time, which was in the time period and had Ben as a character, so I thought that one perk of the book would be that it would somehow, maybe relate to the show.  It did in a way.  The main character in the book and Ben in the show had the same name and description.  Other than that I remember little so, ya...
       I looked up the show on PBS.com and couldn't find it so I asked my mom when I got home.  She thought it was Patriot's Kids so I looked that up.  No luck but I got a hit in the search bar for google on the real title and ended up finding a whole website on the show, confirming that Ben Franklin was a character and that it actually happened.  I have added that part into my narrative as well as a little more description to hopefully bring the reader "into the scene" and... ya:)  Um... I added some more about why I thought that the book couldn't be that bad and how I was wrong.  Way off base with that one.  Well, that's about all I have on revisions so, yep:)
<3 Wendy

2 comments:

  1. I remember Liberty's Kids!! I used to love that show!! It sounds like you are getting pretty far into your narrative. I think that it sounds good so far.

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