We will start the year off by exploring our thoughts and ideas through journaling about them! We will spend some time simply learning to love writing! Then, we will move onto understanding basic sentence structure and how to form well constructed paragraphs.  This knowledge will then guide us through writing many different types of writing pieces: narratives, persuasives, and expository pieces based off of student driven research.  Throughout the year we will work to connect our writing to all academic areas by constructing well formulated responses that explain our thinking in a variety of ways.