Writing: Module 4, Lesson 1 (Day 16): Launching the Workshop & Brave, Bold Opinions: Small Moment Strategy #2

Watermelon vs Seed Idea

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How do you know if your idea is a watermelon or a seed? Watermelon topics are big. They are a great place to start. You can take that big broad topic and make it smaller events, kind of like cutting a watermelon into slices. But when you look carefully at a slice of watermelon you can see many black seeds. In order to write a small moment story you need to pick one slice, one event, and choose only one seed idea out of the slice of watermelon event.

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Watermelon to Small Moment Anchor Chart Alt Text Links to an external site.

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Watermelon Matching

Directions:

• It’s time for you to practice taking a watermelon topic and whittling it down to a seed so you can write your small moment piece.
• I’m going to give you some topics you can choose from or you can choose a topic of your own.

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Small Moment Strategy Anchor Chart Alt Text Links to an external site.

 

In Your Notebook:

Directions:

Now it's your turn!

• On a new page in your writer's notebook write the date in the top right corner.
• Write:

Think of a watermelon topic: break the watermelon into slices

Slice of watermelon: break the slice into smaller topics, seeds

Seeds of watermelon: choose a seed to become your small moment and circle it (just like I did in the example)

• We will write on about your seed idea in the next lesson

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