The Write Move


These pages remain for archival purposes and are not active for SFHS as of September 2007.

One of our goals in English 11 is strengthening student writing. We will do that with an approach that incorporates the following:

Our weekly schedule looks like this:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Write quotation response (10 minutes) in your notebook. Write quotation response (10 minutes) in your notebook. Mini-lesson (see list below). Peer review (10 minutes), day before polished draft is due. Have your typed draft ready for review. You will earn no points for an untyped page from your notebook. Read a quotation response (five students per week); see rubric below.

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Binder Contents:

Bring your binder with you EVERY DAY!!

Developing ideas & Constructing your response:

Polished draft:

Peer Review:

Resources:

Mini-Lesson Schedule:

  1. Assignment format (using Falcon Skills and Style Handbook)
  2. Peer review
  3. Proofreading & editing
  4. Paragraph strategies (organization)
  5. Sentence fragments (FR #1)
  6. Run ons (comma splices)
  7. Sentence variety
  8. Sentence beginnings and strategies
  9. Sentence combining
  10. Parallel construction
  11. Passive voice
  12. Shifts in p.o.v.
  13. Shifts in tense
  14. Commas
  15. Hyphens and dashes
  16. Apostrophes
  17. Semi colons and colons
  18. Exclamation points
  19. Quotation marks
  20. Pronoun/antecedent agreement
  21. Pronoun references
  22. Subject/verb agreement
  23. Dangling participles
  24. Misplaced modifiers
  25. Mixed pairs
  26. Wordiness
  27. Sexist language
  28. Colloquialisms
  29. Clichés
  30. Spelling
  31. Write numbers out
     

Points Breakdown:

mini-lessons (each) 10 pts
reading a draft 20 pts
peer review 10 pts
polished draft 30 pts

Rubric for polished drafts:

  10: spectacular 9-8: good; can improve somewhat 7: average attempt; needs more attention to detail/precision 6-5: below expectations; too limited; too many errors
Fully developed paragraph, using personal knowledge or experience. (x 2)        
Conventions and style (FSSH). (x 1)  

 

     
Total

______/ 30

       

Rubric for oral reading:

  10: spectacular 9-8: good; can improve somewhat 7: average attempt; needs more attention to detail/precision 6-5: below expectations; too limited; too many errors
Detailed, with personal experience. Confident, good pace, good volume. (x 1)  

 

     
Total

______/ 20

       

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