Review - preparation for 1st assignment

Review of preparation for 1st assignment:

On Monday 3rd November you will be getting the correction code along with your personalised writing for the final draft of your work:

This is how we got here, we have looked at:

READING
Cherries for my Grandma, My Grandfather, Love Orange, Cat in the Rain
Various poems

LANGUAGE
Habitual past. p. 42/53
Adjective clauses p. 40 and complex sentence structures
Parallel structures and repetition
As/like
Descriptive language
Show don’t tell writing techniques
Metaphor, personification, similes

EDITING SKILLS
Protocol peer review
Correction code

WRITING.
Various drafts of your assignment
Organizing your writing: thesis statement and hooks p. 35, 66 (see p 38 and 39 as a checklist for final draft)
Summaries - as an introduction to a piece of writing p. 37 and Love Orange
Interpretations of a story – Love Orange
Creative writing

SPEAKING
Lots of discussion and sharing ideas etc
Enactment of Cat in the Rain ( make sure you have read it for Monday3rd November)

Next: We will be working from unit 1: Summary Response writing, and collecting cartoons!

Coffee Philosophies

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Coffee Philosophies' group

Protocol for Peer Editing

write an ode to an orange - for fun :-)

Oh orange, grown and nurtured pesticide free
organic you were destined to be
I saw your healthy glow from afar
and selected you especially for the beauty that you are
Brought you home and began the wait
Anticipation grew as I considered your fate
Then the time finally came
your deliciousness for me to claim
Oh no! You are gone. I call your name!
It is Stan that I blame



Listen to the reading of Gary Soto's poem Oranges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izmrDDXYsGM

assignment 1

Monday 6th

Remember to bring a photo of someone who is important to you to the lesson on Monday 6th. If you do not have a photo, find an object of something to symbolise your relationship.

YOUR WRITER’S NOTEBOOK

Imagine! You have a photograph of a moment, a person, a setting: it captures time. So does your writing.

Each time you put thoughts to paper you are crafting ideas and crafting language to shape your ideas.

Each time your write you rework, reshape and redefine your ideas and language.

Keep a writer’s notebook this semester. Use it to record the various stages to producing a final piece of writing for an assignment. Your writing will grow like a tree – an idea will take root, branching out until you have a finished work; from a seed to fruition.

How?

1. In class you will be asked to write a number of initial drafts. You can come back to these later in assignments. Put these in your notebook.
2. Post your initial drafts in your small group blogs – remember these are initial drafts. Share ideas how the work can be improved.
3. Adapt and change your piece of writing as ideas come from class or from other sources.
4. Submit your final version, and post this again in your small group blog.

Course assignments

Course overview