2nd Quarter

Big Idea

Rhetorical techniques help students become skillful practitioners of written language.

Essential Question

How can writers best communicate their beliefs?

Why? Here's why...

Samples from the TIB archive

Under 18 writers

Thirty Things I Believe The Essentials to Happiness The Time to Help is Now

The Triumph of Kindness Inner Strength from Desperate Times Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day

A Duty to Family, Heritage, and Country The Beatles Live On America's Beauty is In its Diversity

Accomplishing Big Things in Small Pieces Finding the Flexibility to Survive Find a Good Frog

My Opinions Matter We're All Different in Our Own Ways Returning to What's Natural

Over 18 writers

A Way to Honor Life The Key to a Long Life The Power of Comedy

A Lesson I Hold Dear Tell the Children

Need ideas? Using CONVERSATION STARTERS is a fun way to generate potential TIB statements.

See CALENDAR for due dates.

Assignment

Your collection must be 6 pages long

Each essay must be approximately one double-spaced page--not longer.

Times New Roman x12 (titles can be any font/size)

All entries will be illustrated on facing pages

(drawings, clipart, photos are all good, but nothing can be affixed to the pages)

*The essays can have their own styles, but all should end with the words 'This I believe' (in a way that works).

SCORING GUIDE (PDF) attached below

All entries will be illustrated on facing pages

(drawings, clipart, photos are all good, but nothing can be affixed to the pages)

Two of your entries may be poems

(Below are links to poetry forms you may find useful to adapt for TIB. You are free to pursue types not included in these resources and/or to invent your own.)

http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html

http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/lessons/poetry-writing-lessons/

http://www.tooter4kids.com/forms_of_poetry.htm

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-poems-for-kids.html

http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/poetry_types.htm

You will be publishing a book that will look something like this:

*Attached below are instructions on using Powerpoint to design your illustrations before putting them into Scripsi. You don't have to use this method, but it has been found to work pretty well...