Learners will create a very special piece of writing to honor the life story of somebody who has had an everlasting change or impact on the student’s life. The class will include  a resource packet, a PDF, containing all necessary information, the homework assignments between each class and some model interview questions to begin the process. We will start each class with a lesson that includes the days goals, followed by time to work in class and share. Just like any skill, writing is something that requires practice and so this class may be taken more than one time, with creativity and designing of the interview questions, to honor more than  one person.
Day One: basic instructions for the class  will begin this hour of instruction with  time to get to know one another and reminders that this is a class that welcomes everybody warmly kindly and with respect and all will be treated that way by everyone. Goals will be established and guidelines for who would be an appropriate person to honor, and then learners will be designing interview questions. **** Very important *** in between the first and the second class, learners need to set aside time with the person to complete the interview. So I recommend contacting the special person before the class even begins to set a time between the first and the second class for interview completion. We are trying not to do younger brothers and sisters, but rather people who have had much life experience.

Day two: The class will process the interview questions and discuss some of the interesting answers that they feel comfortable sharing. Students will learn the process to decide the order they want to blend the answers together into paragraphs, that show description, adjectives, voice, so the persons story comes to life .

Day three: learners will have completed approximately the first half of their life story on a Google doc following goals established in the class. Students will edit and revise that portion with the teacher during class and will be working on the second half of the life story, except for the last paragraph.

Day four: students will share based on their comfort level some special parts of their writing, sentences and word choices, that they’re very proud of, interesting facts they learned about the person, and then all learners will be writing a powerful culmination paragraph with some special facts that are saved for this paragraph. Editing and revising, will again happen with the teacher, and anyone who does not complete that, a future 30 minute will be set up free of charge to meet with the teacher one to one to complete that process.