In language arts I grew the most in using dialogue in writing. I did this through the conversation eday assignment, the conversation journal entry, and the story book project.

 

 Something that helped me grow in dialogue was the eday language arts conversation in drop box. In this, we first made a list of 10 words besides said, says, etc... That could be used in a dialogue tag.  A dialogue tag is what comes after the dialogue to help explain how they are speaking. This helped me because it made me think about other words that could be used to describe how someone is speaking. Some examples on my list were asked, exclaimed, and yelled. These all show them saying it a different way.

 

Another thing that helped me grow in dialogue was the conversation journal entry. A journal entry is an assignment where we are given a topic and an explanation of it and we get 10 minutes to write a story about it, describe it, or if there is a picture we can explain what it looks like. In this we wrote a conversation that you wish you could have with someone.  In this we had to use quotation marks to separate what words the person is saying from the dialogue tag. This helped me because we had to write a whole conversation and try to use different tags so that it wasn’t repetitive.

 

Another thing that helped me to grow in dialogue was the storybook project. In the storybook project my partner and I wrote a book for children to teach about refusal skills. Whenever we wrote dialogue, we had to remember the rules for dialogue so that we did it correctly. At the beginning of writing it, it was difficult because we would forget to put the second quotation mark, forget a comma before the quotation mark, or just completely forget the quotation marks. A page that shows our struggle in the beginning is page 14. On this page, one of the teachers were listing effects on your health from not using refusal skills. In the first line of dialogue there are no quotation marks around it at all, but there is a quotation mark in front of the dialogue tag. Also, on the second piece of dialogue on that page there is not a dialogue tag at the end of it. Through working on this project, I started to remember the rules. I would remember where and when to use quotation marks and also what kind of punctuation to use at the end of dialogue before the quotation mark.

 

In this reflection I talked about the different things that we have done to help me grow in using and understanding dialogue. Being able to use dialogue will impact my future because of future projects or work dealing with dialogue.