Write Trait 1 Ideas What makes for good

Write Trait #1: Ideas What makes for good ideas in writing?

Ideas: Pre-Writing Topic: you wake up one morning and find yourself in prison. You do not know why you are there, and no one will talk to you. Describe Main the Idea: What is the main idea? experience. • To escape? • To show terrible prison can be? • To show prison can affect a person? • To show the character develops? Details: What are some interesting details that your will include? • The green slime growing on the walls? • The terrible smell that comes from having to use the washroom in the corner? • The horrible feeling of not knowing if you will ever get out? • The loneliness of spending hours without anyone to talk to?

Ideas: Writing Pick one of the topics below for your write: 1. Meat Freezer You are just starting your first day working at a grocery store. Near the end of the day, you walk into a meat freezer, and the door locks behind you. No one hears your call for help, and the store is closing in 5 minutes. 2. Last Person on Earth? You wake up one morning and realize that everyone else has disappeared. A note warns you not to go outside because there is a deadly disease out there. 3. Lottery Walking down the street with a friend, you notice a piece of litter on the ground. You stoop to pick it up and realize it is actually a winning lottery ticket.

Ideas: Writing Rules: 1. You cannot leave the initial setting of your scene 2. Your scene must be at least 200 words Pre-writing 1. What is the main idea of your scene? 2. List at least two interesting details your will include in your writing. 3. Once you have done this, show it to Mr. Slykhuis, and then begin writing your story.

Ideas: Writing Rules: I will be marking this using 1. You cannot leave the initial setting of your scene the same rubric we looked 2. Your scene must be at least 200 words at together in class

Ideas: Writing Pick one of the topics below for your write: 1. Meat Freezer You are just starting your first day working at a grocery store. Near the end of the day, you walk into a meat freezer, and the door locks behind you. No one hears your call for help, and the store is closing in 5 minutes. 2. Last Person on Earth? You wake up one morning and realize that everyone else has disappeared. A note warns you not to go outside because there is a deadly disease out there. 3. Lottery Walking down the street with a friend, you notice a piece of litter on the ground. You stoop to pick it up and realize it is actually a winning lottery ticket.