now what

[jfields]

Okay, you take the notes you took about the moment and write them as a narrative. Not a story (it actually shows this in your manual). So a small portion of it might look like this:

The blond boy fidgitted with his bathing suit, hiking it up then resettling it on his hips. He push his dripping hair away from his face, then blinked at the bright sun. Another boy raced by him, nudging him slightly and he frowned, then trotted along after to race through the jets of water bursting up from the wet paving stone "path."

Basically, you just describe exactly what you saw and heard.

Then for 5B, you imagine what that little boy is like. You picture the sorts of things he might like. And maybe the things he doesn't like. Then you write from his viewpoint -- not at the splashpark but something totally different and doing something totally different. 5A is basically NONFICTION...it's a recording of what you observed. 5B is totally FICTION since you take the child and imagine him somewhere different and imagine what it's like to be him. 5A is an observation test. 5B is an imagination and voice test.

So it might look like this:

I stomped down the sidewalk away from Jackson's house. I couldn't believe how he acted about his stupid action figures. You'd think he was my grandmother, all fussy over touching his stuff. I don't think he's a real kid at all. My stomping faded in a shuffle, but not because I stopped being mad. It was just so hot out. My teacher says this is global warming. I don't feel warm. I feel like my shoes are melting into the sidewalk like an ice cream cone someone dropped.