Writing
Writing Workshop
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...
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 "How To Write An Essay" ...
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!)
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwNp3nt-VgM
Practice...http://www.quia.com/quiz/1255538.html
https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-5/punctuating-dialogue;
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Great writers use GREAT Leads and Transitions
(see below)
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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...
-shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. Often shows "Position"
Play "Fling the Teacher" game...
Interjection and Conjunction game...
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
The action of throwing in between
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