Powerful Endings!

Today in writing workshop we learned about reviewing with the masters and how to write powerful endings to our personal narratives.  We began by looking at the beginning of both Owl Moon and the Leaving Morning.  As a class we discussed what we heard and what we saw at the beginning of both of these stories.  We then talked about how authors go back and re-write all parts of their stories, especially their endings to make them powerful!  We then read the endings of both Owl Moon and the Leaving Morning.  We discussed how in Owl Moon the story begins with a journey in the woods and ends with a return home.  We also talked about how in Owl Moon the book ends with the words in the title of the book, owl moon.  In the Leaving Morning we noticed that the story begins and ends with the little boy making lips on the window.  As a class we discussed the what makes a “good ending”  we came up with the following: endings that echo the beginning, and ending that leaves the reader thinking about something, an ending that brings the story full circle, an ending that solves a problem and lastly an ending the brings out the meaning of the story.  Tonight at home ask us about what ending we choose to use for our personal narrative!

Listen to some of our stories from share: