IMPORTANT 

Make sure to carefully read and follow the instructions while completing the tasks. Once you have finished activities 4.5 and 4.6, proceed to section 4.7 Evaluation: Structure and Organization. This section provides rubric tools for self-evaluation and evaluating the work of your classmates. After completing the evaluation, move on to section 4.8 Spotlight on … Multilingual Writers, where you will encounter new challenges to showcase your content. Finally, go to section 4.9 Portfolio: Filtered Memories to find useful tools, recommendations, and reflections for creating your portfolio. Afterward, move on to the next Module. 

Now, let's get started! Using the following template, share your tasks, taking into account the order of the different sections detailed chronologically.

Summary of Assignment: A Turning Point 

Choose an event from your life that has stuck in your memory as a turning point of some sort. Certainly, you can write about major milestones—graduations, achievements, and the like—but consider small moments and events, too: something that someone said to you or that you overheard, a time you got or didn’t get what you wanted, a time you were disappointed, or a time you thought you knew better than a more experienced person. To get the most accurate perspective of the event, go back in time as far as you can so that you think about the event as objectively as possible and know it as a real and meaningful turning point. Write a story about the event, and use narrative techniques to show why the event has become meaningful. Here are some other ideas about possible turning points:

• A changed attitude toward a friend, sibling, or other family member
• A change of major, if that change is a big step away from what you planned to do
• Making or not making the cut for a team or some other group
• Your feelings when you learned something about yourself or someone close to you
• A move from another country to the United States or from another U.S. location to where you are now
• Becoming fluent in another language
• Realizing that a certain behavior either gets you what you want or doesn’t
• Realizing that someone you admire is not so admirable, or vice versa
• Becoming friends with someone you didn’t expect to be friends with
• Facing an illness or crisis and how it changed or didn’t change you

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Quick Launch: Plot Diagram

Once you have chosen a topic, free-write for 5-10 minutes, considering the following questions:

• Why is this event memorable?
• What conflict did you face?
• What images come to mind when you think of this event?

Practice with Point of View

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