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Writing Together Ed. 193/593. Lower Kuskokwim School District Department of Academic Programs Spring 2005. Part I: Session 2. Writing Process as a Tool: Prewriting & Drafting The Resume: What mode is that? Analytical Assessment: Starting at the end-Conventions.
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Writing TogetherEd. 193/593 Lower Kuskokwim School District Department of Academic Programs Spring 2005
Part I: Session 2 Writing Process as a Tool: Prewriting & Drafting The Resume: What mode is that? Analytical Assessment: Starting at the end-Conventions
Response to Reading What do you think Fletcher is telling us about keeping a writer’s notebook?
Key WordsDefinitions? • Fluency • Audience • Purpose • Writing Process • Traits • Modes
Writing Process:Prewriting(the warmup) • Choosing a topic • Considering audience, purpose, mode (form) • Generating and organizing ideas
Prewriting Generate ideas Plan, organize ideas Happens before writing; often during writing Critical Components Doesn’t need to be.. Time consuming Complicated Written down Use of graphic organizers Lists Bubble Map illustrations Don’t over use What happens during the prewrite…
Drafting/Fast Writing • Get your ideas on paper. • “…try at a simple beginning with simple words…” • “Allow yourself to be awkward.” “Writing is not a McDonald’s hamburger. The cooking is slow, and in the beginning you are not sure whether a roast or a banquet or a lamb chop will be the result.” Quotes … Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones.
Response/Revision • Response is getting help from our friends. • Revision is rewriting based on help from our friends (and at some point, the use of the 6 trait guide---BUT NOT TODAY). Can use graphic organizers • REVISON IS NOT EDITING!
Editing • Dealing with correctness in • Spelling • Punctuation • Grammar • Sentence fragments/run-ons • Using the Analytical scoring guide and the editing checklist as guides
Publishing • Sharing what you write • Books • Classroom/schoolwide displays • Website • Speech • Magazines • Elicaq/Delta Discovery/Tundra Drums • Anchorage Daily News
We’re going to write together…. Modeled (demonstration)? Shared (shared demonstration)?
We’re going to write together…. Select a topic…an idea…something we’ve observed/experienced in common. Brainstorm ideas about topic-use graphic organizer Write together-a shared piece-you will be the contributors.
Audience and Purpose How do they guide us?
Big Questions…. How do we use audience and purpose with modes? (writing forms, writing genres)
Narrative Expository/Informative Descriptive Imaginative Persuasive They often overlap. descriptive in narrative. Decriptive in imaginative Most common modes are…
Additional forms of writing… • Plays • Songs • Raps-chants • Poems • Reader’s Theater • E-Mails • Letters/postcards • Shopping/wish lists • Personal notes • Writer’s notebook
The Resume • What? • Why? (Purpose) • Where? (Audience) • What mode will this be? • How? • What should be included? • Class decision
Traits-Analytical Guide • Conventions • Read the trait • Score two papers for this trait • Editing checklist • Self-assessment • Peer editing
Writing The Resume • Develop the format/appropriate content • Personal prewriting activity • Fastwrite • When your fastwrite is completed