WRITING WEEK 13

WRITING WEEK 13

Rebus puzzles. Love'em or hate 'em?

Hour 1

• Freewriting (10)
• Writing skill - synonyms (20)
• Finish up - the first draft of last week's assignment (hedge words plus population pyramid description, causes, and consequences)

Hours 2-3 

• Freewriting (10)
• Short activity  (10)
• New long assignment - cubing tool (30)
• Conferencing and rewrites

What have we done so far?

Analysis and explanation

• murder mystery
• food consumption patterns
• electric car TV commercial
• health and income

Analogies and arguments

• life is a musical
• what is an argument (claim + premise)
• correlation vs causation

Simple stuff

• write sentences based on a family picture and odd items (e.g. table with 3 legs)
• write about one picture (baby image)
• maze puzzle (imperatives)
• prepositional phrases drill
• fluency drill
• read a stanza by the poet Wallace Stevens (Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)

Writing skills

• parallel structure
• show me, don't tell me
• write interesting first sentences
• answer question: what is good writing with 6+1 writing traits as a framework to teach and evaluate writing
• new general service list for keywords
• editing wordy sentences and empty phrases
• hedge words

Longer passages

• rafting story (use show me skills)
• analyze story structure (Death by Scrabble)
• watch Tiny Story and uses interesting verbs
• six sentences to describe books, movies, and TV shows
• summarize Room 8 video story
• write a story based on the hero's journey

high context