Tongues of Angels by Julia Park Tracey5/18/2023 ![]() Based on a true story, Tongues of Angels is a canny, warm and surprisingly spiritual novel for our time.'-Publishers description 'Indie-Visible Ink. The students love looking back at how their favorite authors grabbed their attention in the opening chapters of their novels, and the examples give them ideas for their opening chapters. Tongues of Angels offers a peek behind the curtain of the priesthood, offering a funny, poignant look at Catholic angst and ambiguity. Near the end of October, in anticipation of starting our novels, I give a lesson on creating an "inciting incident" for chapter one. This helps them choose a challenging but appropriate goal for themselves. Check out these recommended word goals by grade level. Then I show them how to check their word total (Tools > Word Count), which they multiply by six to see how many words they might write in an hour, and then calculate the words they could write if they wrote for an hour a day, every day, in November. I give my students a huge list of writing topics and have them write in a Google Doc on any topic they want for ten minutes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the first question asked when assigned a piece of writing is, "How long does it have to be?" I recommend tackling the word goal lesson early on. Since YWP lets students choose their own word goals, students need to get a sense of how many words will be appropriate for them. ![]()
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