FICTION &  CREATIVE WRITING

Writing
What are the Six Traits of Writing?
Ideas: "A Rip in the Pants"
Sentence Fluency: "Grow a Sentence"
Conventions "Dear John" & Ode to a Spell Checker
Organization: transitions, leads, endings
Six Trait scoring practice

Decide on a creative writing piece to develop. 
(more prompts, story starters, ideas here)
Final creative writing due February 7th
(assessment here)

Reading
Free Choice Reading - 30 minutes daily
Reading Skills practice
 

January 2008     Week #20
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	HW due today DAY 4 Free Choice Reading and/ or Writing (30 min) White - finish "The Lottery" and Musings	HW due today DAY 5 Free Choice Reading and/ or Writing (30 min)	HW due today DAY 6 Diversity Day Travis Roy & Kim Peek	HW due today DAY 7 Free Choice Reading and/or Writing (30 min) Partial draft of creative writing