Writing

What is Writer’s Workshop?

* Mini-lesson (5 - 10 minutes)

A short lesson focused on a single topic

that students need help with.

��*Writing Time(10 - 15 minutes or more!).

The students WRITE! Each student will try out the mini-lesson in his or her writing. I will conference with individual students or small groups.

* Share (5 minutes)

Writers read what they have written and seek

feedback from their audience.

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Story / Plot Generator

Do you have writer's block? Try one of these sites for some inspiration...

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

http://www.plot-generator.org.uk/

http://writers-den.pantomimepony.co.uk/writers-plot-ideas.php

http://writingexercises.co.uk/plotgenerator.php

http://writingexercises.co.uk/quick-plot-generator.php

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Opinion Writing

Rhetoric - Writing or speaking well to persuade your opinion.

Three types:

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

Ethos

is an appeal to trustworthiness, and it is a means of convincing someone that the character of the persuader is trustworthy.

Pathos

is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.

Logos

is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf81d0YS58E

Examples in commercials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfAxUpeVhCg&list=PLUt_PBZQzj_D7wPfnSX-m9Ho1pfcq_CgG

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Figurative Language

Figurative Language Rap...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9pd6h9JT0

Thrift Shop Paradoy for Figurative language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPVlQ46z3k

Figurative Language in Movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk

Simile, Metaphor, and Personification Jeopardy

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/similes-metaphors-personification-oh-my

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Poetry

Please use this link to help with inspiration...

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

OR

https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=81899

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Videos for Thanksgiving

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/Video-Roundups-Thanksgiving.shtml

Thanksgiving Jeopardy

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/thanksgiving-jeopardy246

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5 Paragraph Essay

Paragraph 1 - INTRODUCTION:

• Hook (great lead)
• Thesis (3 main points you will be writing about in your essay)
• Feeling Sentence (Examples of how to express feelings in your writing...https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/535865#view=notes)

Paragraph 2, 3 & 4 - BODY (3 of them to match your thesis! BING - BANG - BONGO):

• Topic sentence (Introduce your main point from your thesis statement)
• Evidence and details to support your thesis topic in at least 3 sentences
• Conclusion sentence (wrap up your paragraph)

Paragraph 5 - CONCLUSION

• RESTATE your hook
• RESTATE your thesis
• Give a FINAL thought

Rap song ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRpPHylKFCQ

Powerpoint...

(see attached below)

Example...

http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/pioneer/barnard/wri/essay_model.htm

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Dialogue Rules

• Use quotation marks pointing inward to show who is talking
• If you change the speaker you MUST change the paragraph and indent
• Always use punctuation before quotation
• Capitalize the start of the quotation, but use a lower case if the sentence is broken up (For example: “I really don’t know,” he said, “whether she loves me or not.”)
• Use speaker or dialogue tags to show who is speaking
• SAID is DEAD! (Use better word choice!)

Practice...http://www.quia.com/quiz/1255538.html

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-5/punctuating-dialogue​;

Jeopardy Game - Preopostions, Conjuntions, and Interjections

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/prepositions-conjunctions-and-interjections9

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/prepositions-conjunctions-and-interjections2

Prepositions

School House Rock video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfExXGMX2JM

-shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. Often shows "Position"

Play "Fling the Teacher" game...

http://www.cccs.k12.in.us/userfiles/10/Prepositions%20and%20Prepositional%20Phrases.swf

Interjection and Conjunciton game...

http://www.quia.com/cb/56972.html

Conjunctions

Con = With

Junc - Join

Tion - Action of

Definition: The action of joining with

Helps join words, phrases, or clauses (sentences)

School house rock video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGA7ssL-6g

INTERJECTIONS

Inter = go between

Ject - to throw

Tion - Action of

An interjection shows excitement or emotion. It is a part of speech that is separated in a sentence by an exclamation point or a comma if the emotion is not as strong.

watch the School House Rock video...

http://safeshare.tv/v/ss562f648ecd680

Click to open

Great writers use GREAT Leads and Transitions

Writing_Strong_Leads.doc

Transitions.doc

Published_Piece_of_Writing_-_Due_11-18-15.doc

How_to_write_a_5_paragraph_essay_POWERPOINT.ppt