Writing For The Real World Carney Crocker Sheila
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Writing For The Real World Carney Crocker Sheila Thompson Response to the Aesthetic
Goals of Project • The goal of the project is to increase and promote the skills of written communication in a variety of venues, in order to encourage life-long learning and application of skills.
Standards and Benchmarks • Standard 4: Written Expression • Utilizes a variety of writing forms and styles for various purposes and audiences. – Shares personal writing with others for feedback. – Use the rules of punctuation and capitalization in the writing process
Major Learning Activities • • • Friendly Letter Business Letter Newsletter Short story E-Mail Scrapbook pages
Friendly Letter • We practiced friendly letters to make believe characters, staff within the school, and The Rock.
Friendly Letters • The students enjoyed experimenting with their writing of friendly letters.
Beginning to Write
Business Letter • Letter To Tribal Chairman Concerning community littering and pollution concerns.
Short Story Basics • The Legend of the Blue Bonnet
Practice sheet for preparing to write a short story
Poster • Earth Day Posters to persuade people to stop littering.
Articles for Newspaper • The students prepared articles for the newspaper on Earth Day activities.
Earth Day Articles and Pictures
Scrapbook Entry
E-Mail Basics
