Camp Thrills, Chills and Spills

Self-Assessment: Checking my recount as I write...

	Tick when you have...	
 	Chosen only one special camp experience to write about in detail.	
 	Written a title that grabs the reader's attention and lets them know what your writing will be about.	
 	Started your first sentence in an interesting way, eg. with some action.	
 	Written your ideas in the order they happened.	
 	Shown how you were feeling during the experience. 	
 	Written some words that show time passing, eg. at first, next, afterwards, later, at last, finally.	
 	Written many different sentence beginnings.	
 	Written some short simple sentences to create tension.	
 	Used the thesaurus to choose verbs that closely describe your actions, eg. plodded instead of walked	
 	Written some figurative language eg. alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, personification, metaphor.	
 	Written some inner monologue telling the reader what you were thinking.	
 	Tried to use some different punctuation, eg. dashes, ellipses, exclamation marks, parentheses	
 	Checked that all your writing is in the past tense.	
 	Checked that your writing is in the first person, using personal pronouns, eg. I or we. 	

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