WRITING

Narrative Craft

• -Crafting Personal Narratives

• -Generating Personal Goals for Writing

• -Reflecting on Our Writing & Making a Plan

• -Using Mentor Texts to Inspire Our Writing

The Lens of History: Research Reports

• Note-taking While Researching

• Using Timelines & Text Features to Enhance Our Writing

• Writing with a Formal Tone

• Analyzing Primary Resources

Shaping Texts: From Essay & Narrative to Memoir

• Identifying Common Themes in Our Writing & Exploring Them More Deeply

• Writing With Depth

• Identifying and Writing with Various Structures

• Unpacking Big Meaning with Tiny Events

The Research-Based Argument Essay

• Paraphrasing Research

• Identifying and Analyzing Opposing Views

• Incorporating Quotations in our Arguments

• Organizing our Evidence

• Using Persuasive Techniques to Convince An Audience

• Using Language to Increase the Validity of an Argument