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Tag: personification

November 8, 2017November 8, 2017Jay

Mentor Text Wednesday: Dead Game

Mentor Text: Dead Game by Andrew Vachss Writing Techniques: Using Story to Explore an Issue Foreshadowing Personification Focusing a Narrative Background: I pulled this story out in my class this week, not as a mentor text, but as a tool to help us discuss our writing variables. There is a question on my Grade 12s’ […]

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