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- 4th - 6th
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Students view a mystery photo accompanied by a brief mystery story. Then they develop their own original mysteries by writing, editing, and rewriting it. Their final copies are presented to the class. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore what makes certain toys appealing to students and create pitch presentations selling this season's hot technology toys. They write persuasive reviews for a product to include in a holiday shopping catalog. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students write persuasively by convincing others of their point of view about music downloading. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the narrative, descriptive and expository forms of writing. In groups, they discuss the personality of the author while graphing the characteristics after reading different examples from the same writer. To end the lesson, they write their own paper using their peers as peer editors. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students engage in a ten-month long elective course focusing on college board review and an advanced writing workshop. Both course components focus on thinking and reasoning skills. Various approaches include sentence combining, which emphasizes linguistics and sentence structure, and the theory of the world approach which states students need a world view in order to write effectively. The course also includes choosing genres for writing projects. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students will produce a short radio feature about a favorite entertainer or group, consisting of 45 seconds to one minute of copy and one-to-two minutes of music "clips." In writing this copy, they will use a modified prewriting technique, adapted for audio copy writing, emphasizing narrowing of topic and limiting the amount of information included in the copy. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students examine the writing techniques of professional authors and apply them to their own work. In pairs, they email authors to discover the tricks of the trade. Students create their own Website for their work. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students comprehend and identify the techniques used by authors with descriptive writing. They identify parts of speech in descriptions. Students identify figures of speech in descriptions: similes, metaphors, and personifications. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students read through articles and work as a class to identify the techniques used by the author to develop a descriptive writing. Students then work independently identifying parts of speech and figures of speech in descriptions. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students write a response to "What is an essay?" They share their answers with the class. The teacher goes through the general process of writing an essay. They review essay writing terms and techniques. Students read a source article on UNICEF's involvement in the water contamination problem in Bangladesh and write a persuasive essay to argue a position on a related question. Full Review »
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