Webbing out Your Ideas = Mind Mapping!

Sometimes it's hard to fill in an outline, because you're struggling to see your ideas.  We will be mind mapping/creating a web of ideas on two different writing prompts as a class to try to decide what our strongest arguments would be for a given writing prompt.  Let's click on the following link to get started.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/pinball/dotdash/

Hook Your Reader Into Your Essay in the First Paragraph!

Today we are going to practice creating engaging HOOKS (the very first part of your essay).  When you begin/open an essay, you need to immediately pull your audience in/grab your reader's attention.  Watch the link below to view an introduction of a hook's importance before we begin writing our own.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnq17dyxyu4

 

Friday's Agenda

After you have finished editing and composing a polished final draft of your persuasive business letter, please do the following:

1). Staple your score sheet, rough draft and final draft ALL TOGETHER and turn in to Mrs. Enos. YOU CAN TURN IT IN THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON MONDAY IF YOU NEED TO WORK ON IT OVER THE WEEKEND.

2). If you have any missing assignments for Mrs. Enos, work on completing them and turning them in (remember, you were given two late passes to avoid taking a grade penalty).

3). Work on your word wall assignment (you have two due for the quarter).  Do you know when yours are due?

4). You have two approved interactive writing websites you can go to:

*Magnetic Poetry: http://magneticpoetry.com/pages/play-online

*Mad Libs: http://www.redkid.net/madlibs/

 *Analogies Challenge: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/analogies/analogiesx.htm

*Comic Creator: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

*Free Rice (get vocabulary answers correct = rice/food is donated to impoverished countries in need): http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1540

Future Goals Writing Prompt

What are your goals that you've set for yourself for the future?  You can either choose one goal and focus on three-four main points on how you plan to achieve this one ultimate goal OR you can write a persuasive essay about three short term to long term goals you have for yourself, why you've set these goals, what you hope to accomplish, and what you have to do to succeed.  Once you reach these goals, how do you think your life will benefit?  Think about all these areas of this topic when writing your essay: What are your personal life goals that you've set for yourself for the future? Today we are going to brainstorm in class.  You may fill out your web via the computer like last week (click on:  http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/)  and email it to me at Laura.Enos@fpsmail.org or you may write out your ideas using a hard copy version of the brainstorming map that will be provided for you upon request. 

 

Tomorrow in class we will be in the lab.  You will be writing on this prompt COMPLETELY UNASSISTED as a pre-formative assessment to get a baseline as where you, individually are as a writer when you have to independently complete the task on your own in a timed period.  Good Luck!

Mapping Out a Persuasive Argument

Pre-writing is the first step a writer must take before starting a draft.  We will be using a mapping interactive today and many other times throughout the year.  Click on the link below to get started. 

Your goal would be to print out a completed map and turn into Mrs. Enos before the end of class. 

If you do not finish before it's time to go, please print off what you have so far, fill in the rest of the map via pencil/pen and turn it into Mrs. Enos on Monday at the beginning of class.

 

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/