This activity, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short narratives in the voices of teenagers. Each narrative is later shared in poetic form. Having young scholars write to the same idea in different genres is an effective way to get them to think deeper about their subject matter.

Concepts

revision

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Additional Tags

re-shaping narrative writing, write the same idea in a different genre, bronx masquerade by nikki grimes, northern nevada writing project, writingfix, revising drafts

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Common Core

W.9-10.3.c RL.9-10.5 W.11-12.3.c