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Writing Practice & Prompts
Writing Practice & Prompts
Writing practice will utilize writing prompts which will be posted in class on attendance days Monday through Friday from the second day of the semester until the last day of semester. All students are required to participate in the writing practice time and to complete the writing prompt each day. If you are out of school for the day, you will need to ask a classmate for the prompt or get it from this webpage and complete it as homework. In this case, the completion of the writing prompt is due at the start of the next class period. Make sure you leave a space in your Composition Notebook for the prompt.
Follow the instructions below.
Prompts will be assessed in two ways: 1) through participation in the writing practice time which begins when the bell rings and ends when Dr. Jeter says it ends and 2) through spot checks during the semester.
THIS MEANS: If you are not sitting at your desk with your composition notebook out and open and a pen or pencil ready WHEN THE BELL RINGS, you will lose one point.
You will also recieve a Tardy - Unexcused (TU) in Infinite Campus. This is NOT negotiable.
If, at any point after the writing prompt has been assigned, Dr. Jeter collects your composition notebook and checks the writing prompt and it is incomplete, you will lose another point.
Instructions:
Instructions:
Writing prompts give us the opportunity to practice our writing. In this class, we will practice writing every day through something called Silent, Sustained Writing.
Silent, Sustained Writing works like this:
You may not speak at all during the writing time. If you have a question, answer it for yourself.
You must write for the time determined by the teacher, which begins when the bell rings at the beginning of the period and does NOT STOP until the teacher tells you to stop.
If you can't think of what to write, just write any words down. You can repeat a word over and over or write gibberish, but you MUST KEEP WRITING!
Don't bother erasing or crossing out something, JUST KEEP WRITING!
Eventually, writing nonsense will give you time to figure out what to write that actually addresses the prompt.
You must start by writing the date and the prompt.
You must write a MINIMUM of one page AND for the entire time of the writing prompt. If you finish a full page and the teacher has not yet called time, you must keep writing.
If you do not complete a full page in five minutes, you must complete the prompt for homework.
Set your timer for five minutes and, if needed, another five minutes after that.
Note the time it takes you at the beginning of the semester. Your goal is get faster at writing better!
If this takes you more than 20 minutes, please email me so we can make a plan for helping you out.
Below you will find the writing prompts for each of my classes. If you are here to make up an old writing prompt, make sure you respond the correct prompt for the class.
Reading Practice - In-class Time
Reading Practice - In-class Time
In-class time for reading gives us the opportunity to practice our reading. In this class, we will practice our reading as often as possible.
During reading time, you must:
have something to read.
fiction or nonfiction, not a textbook
read for the entire time allotted for reading.
read the assigned class novel when directed to by the teacher.
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