Personal Writing Journal -4 Square Writing

In our class we use a process called "4 Square Writing".  We started off putting 4 squares on a page in our writing journals.  We would put our topic sentence in box one, details about the topic in box two and three, and a closing in box four.  Since we are getting toward the end of the year we are writing the process with one box per page.  This was our first attempt at a longer story.  You will notice that this is not a totally polished story.  We would do more editing if we were going to take the story out of our journal and publish it.  The goal of the personal journal is to get  the ideas and writing process down on paper.