Writer's Workshop 1: Personal and Expressive Writing Pages 27-48

Invitation to Write Page 27: Think about a memorable incident or event in your life. We have two things to remember whenever we write: The Six Steps in the Writing Process and the SIx Trait Rubric, both are shown above. For this assignment, we are only going to worry about the first rubric: Ideas and Content. We are going to concentrate on making sure that we have strong ideas and content in this assignment. To help us with Step 1 Prewrite and Explore, lets work on Developing Ideas. Re-create the experience for your readers by showing them what happened, how it made you feel, and why you'll always remember it. To prepare, let's look at some graphic organizers and how we might be able to use one to help us organize our thoughts and develop our paper. Graphic Organizers,or More Graphic Organizers. This is the beginning of Step 2 Draft and Discover. Here is my example: POW Flowchart. Now, start writing your story. Just follow your "story picture" and write like you talk. I have written a personal example for you: My POW Story. Now for Step 3: Revise Your Writing. Please help me revise my story. What could I do to make it better? Are there details missing that you want to know? Do I have strong ideas and content? Step 4: Proofread. Did I make any spelling or punctuation errors? Step 5: Publish and Present. When you have had at least two other people read and correct your work, and you are sure you have done the best job you can, print a final copy. It's now time for Step 6: Reflect on Your Writing. Sit back down at the computer again and write a paragraph about how you feel about what you wrote in your new Journal. Put your story in Completed Notebook for your grade level under your teacher's section.

Invitation to Write Page 42: Assemble a collage that visually expresses your feelings or tells the viewer something about you. We will again follow the six steps of the writing process and concentrate on ideas and content.  1. Prewrite and Explore: Remember your graphic organizers? Using one for this project can lay out the entire flow of your picture. Go back and look at them if you need help. Graphic Organizers,or More Graphic Organizers. We're going to use Clarisworks draw program and graphics which are located on the server to accomplish this task. Everyone needs to learn how to access those graphics, copy them and paste them into their own Clarisworks document.  2. Draft and Discover: Look throught the graphics on the server and in the Clarisworks libraries and keep note of pictures that might be appropriate to help describe who you are in a graphic way.  3. Revise Your Writing: Make sure that you solicit at least two others constructive criticisms. Edit if necessary.  4. Proofread: If you've used any words, make sure you haven't mispelled anything.  5. Publish and Present: When you are positive that everything is perfect, print on the color printer and place two copies in the Completed Notebook.  6. Reflect on Your Writing: Write a paragraph in your journal about how you felt about this project.

Writer's Workshop 2: Observation and Description Pages 49-70

Invitation to Write Page 54: Think of someone you admire or find interesting or amusing. Then write a character sketch that will paint a vivid portrait for your readers.

Invitation to Write Page 64: Interview someone you know, or someone you would like to know better, who has an interesting story to tell about his or her past. Write your interview as an oral history.

Writer's Workshop 3: Narrative and Literary Writing Pages 71-94

Invitation to Write Page 78: Now write your own short story about anything you like. Your story can be set in any time and place and the events can be real or imaginary, serious or funny.

Invitation to Write Page 88: Write and illustrate a children's book that tells a story or teaches a lesson.

Writer's Workshop 4: Informative Writing, Explaining How Pages 95-116

Invitation to Write Page 100: Think of a problem that interests you or bothers you. Write about the problem, and tell your readers how it might be solved.

Writer's Workshop 5: Informative Writing, Explaining What Pages 117-138

Invitation to Write Page 122: Write a composition that informs and defines a subject that interests you. Write so that your readers will learn how to look at something in a new way.

Invitation to Write Page 132: Write about a subject that interests you, explaining how it is similar to and different from something else.

Writer's Workshop 6: Persuasion Pages 139-164

Invitation to Write Page 144: Think of an issue that you feel strongly about. Write a piece that will persuade people to see why you feel the way you do.

Invitation to Write Page 154: Create your own advertisement persuading people to buy, believe, or do something.

Invitation to Write Page 158: Write an editorial that expresses your view from the above assignment.

Writer's Workshop 7: Responding to Literature Pages 165-186

Invitation to Write Page 170: Select a poem that interests you and write an interpretation of it for other readers.

Invitation to Write Page 180: Write a plan for your own magazine. Decide who your audience will be, describe the goals and content of your magazine, and tell how it will appeal to readers and get your message across.

Writer's Workshop 8: Reports

Invitation to Write Page 194: Create a report on a topic you would like to learn more about. Use more than one medium, or method of communication, to present your work.

Invitation to Write Page 208: Research and write a feature article about a subject that interests you.