Our writing unit continues this week as we focus on various aspects of narrative writing. I am using Kelly Gallagher's Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing through Modeling & Mentor Texts (2011) to guide me and creating some assignments where there was direct instruction before. I will be the first to admit that teaching writing is a challenge but I like to use Gallagher's modeling because it helps me. Here's today's lesson and assignment. Students read through the notes on their own and then complete the work, I am using this to determine if the students can identify the purposes for writing. Identification is so low on the DOK chart but we have to start somewhere. After they complete the assignment, we start on the next activity which is to write for a real-world purpose. We start with Express and Reflect, we've written six-word memoirs before so now we write Twitter memoirs, using the 140 character constraints. I do not allow emojis or gifs for this either (it's a writing task) and I expect proper spelling and punctuation (semicolons are fun). Students share these using the discussion forum on Google classroom and students can see each other's memoirs, we haven't discussed protocol for interacting with someone else's writing. Once we do that, then I will open it up for comments. Also, this is possible to get through in one period thanks to block schedule for CAASPP.
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