It took a lot of effort to write my feature article and I wanted to share it with you. My feature article is about dogs and I put a lot of effort in it, and sometimes it was frustrating, but all of my effort was definitely worth it because my feature article turned out great and I 

 When I was thinking of my topic, I thought about dogs because they are my favorite animal and I own two! They have always been a part of my life and I love them so much. When I was thinking about my message I thought about how the amount of care for dogs is very underrated and that is causing a lot of dogs to be homeless in a shelter. Or just even trying their best to survive on the streets.  I also chose dogs because they mean a lot to me and I finally had the chance to write a whole  article about them.

It took a lot of effort to write my feature article and I wanted to share it with you. My feature article is about dogs and I put a lot of effort in it, and sometimes it was frustrating, but all of my effort was worth it because it turned out great and I love it.

Some parts of writing my article were a little challenging. For example, formating was a little challenging for me because making everything fit and figuring out where to put my pictures was hard. I had to get rid of some because they took up too much room and they wouldn’t fit. Making all of my writing fit and making sure the spacing was right. I had to make sure there weren’t any paragraphs close to each other. Making sure the title, subtitle, and name of each section was all the right size. Another part of writing my article that was challenging was really just thinking of what to write. Also I was out of school for two days and I had to catch up but I didn’t want to rush because then it wouldn’t turn out nice. The most enjoyable parts of making my feature article were finding all of the cute pictures of dogs. I loved picking the pictures because it wasn’t that hard to find ones that fit with the space I had. I also enjoyed adding color to my. I loved adding color because my writing looked so much better. Also because we got to pick our own color and I love my color. I’m very happy and proud of my writing. For example I’m proud of how well it turned out because I think it looks really good. I’m also proud of my writing because I thought I was going to finish late. I was writing my feature article knowing I’m behind and that put a little bit of pressure on me. 

I used some different techniques in my feature article. For example, for my introduction I stated a fact about dogs. “Every year, 6.5 million dogs are abandoned or lost and enter shelters. But of all these animals, only 3.2 million are adopted and many see shelters again after less than a year of finding a new home.” Another technique I used for my feature article was putting all of my writing in and I put boxes instead of the actual picture, and then I wrote all of the vocabulary words, I put all of the pictures in. I also got checklists from my teacher a lot and that helped me improve my article. We also switched our writing with our partners so we could comment on each other and we would get feedback from others.

Writing my feature article was very different from my personal narrative. I had to have multiple slides, I added pictures. A personal narrative is like a little piece of writing but our feature articles were very different. For our feature articles we were teaching the reader about our topic, but for a personal narrative you write about something about yourself.