LOOK BACK TO YOUR EARLIEST MEMORIES IN THIS BRAINSTORM!

Where I’m From

Your house-it can present/past/a vacation home/relative’s house

What’s on the walls?What’s the front porch looks like?What’s in the back yard?What favorite foods/treats came from the

kitchen?Textures/colors of specific furniture

Entertainment

- A favorite movie- Characters/ best lines

- A Favorite show- Characters/ best lines/theme song

- A Favorite Song- artist/lines/where you listened to it

Your Hobbies

-Sport-coach/game/position/where?

- Instrument- Performance/specific song/shape and feel of

instrument

- Anything else?- Photography, drawing, catching bugs

- Toys that defined your childhood

Games

- Board games?With who? Pieces?

- Video Games?- Characters/sound effects- Outside games?- Car rides

Holidays

-Your BEST Halloween costume?- Traditions

Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter…- Birthday memory

- Gift, something specific about a party

- Vacation spot

Parents/Mentor/Relative

- Jobs?- Sayings?- Could be another relative too-you choose!

School

- Talent show- Project- Camp/Program- Award- Play or program- Books you loved- What you did at recess- Field trip

Directions:

1. 3 stanzas (9-12 lines each)2. Model the original3. Must have the tree image at the end4. Specific adjectives/sensory details 5. Edit it for grammar6. Times New Roman, size 12: single or double

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