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FIRST : Brainstorm – Ideas for your TOPIC

Pick Your Favorite

Will it…

serve the purpose?

please your audience?

work with your form?

work for your style?

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Format

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INTRO

Introduction Hook

Snappy, engaging, relevant question?

Introduction transition from HOOK to MAP

Personalized, logical?

Introduction MAP

Three main ideas in order?

Introduction Thesis

Assertively stated opinion?

Introduction transition to 1st paragraph

Logical lead with no repeated words?

BODY 1

Intro sentence

Asserts main idea of paragraph?

Supporting Details

Three clear, sequential, best last, focused per paragraph?

Conclusion/Transition

Restate main idea of paragraph and hint about next? Ex.:

Most people agree three legged dogs run faster, but few realize how much they cost.

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BODY 2

Intro sentence

Asserts main idea of paragraph?

Supporting Details

Three clear, sequential, best last, focused per paragraph?

Conclusion/Transition

Restate main idea of paragraph and hint about next? Ex.:

Most people agree three legged dogs run faster, but few realize how much they cost.

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BODY 3

Intro sentence

Asserts main idea of paragraph?

Supporting Details

Three clear, sequential, best last, focused per paragraph?

Conclusion/Transition

Restate main idea of paragraph and hint about next? Ex.:

Most people agree three legged dogs run faster, but few realize how much they cost.

CLOSE

Map

Restated assertively with no repeated words?

Thesis

Restated assertively with no repeated words?

Power

Tell the reader what to do, do not use should, could, be BOSSY.

Tell them what to do, how to do it, when, where, etc. as applicable.

Ex.: Hit the dog store and buy a three legged dog now.

Unhook

Help reader answer the hook?

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Language Editing

Check yourself, have a peer check you, telling how to improve in these areas:

(each question has the implied format “Did the writer…do/use….”- insert comments/suggestions)

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Prompt/Assignment

Follow the prompt?

Topic/Title

Effective?

Purpose/Audience

Appropriate content and language?

Form/Style

Follows 5-3-5-3 formula?

FOCUS

Every word is on topic?

Logical Sequence

Beginning, middle, end-

2nd weakest, weakest, strongest?

Spelling

Key words, common words?

Grammar

Questions have helping verbs, adjectives before nouns, other word order correct, pronouns match antecedents?

Subject Verb Agreement

3rd person “s?”

POWER Verbs

Never use said, go, goes, went, get/gets, got, walk, talk, etc.? Instead used expressed, exclaimed, demanded, strolled, received, obtained, visited, journeys to, describes, converses, etc.

Visual Adverbs

Like “shone brilliantly, punched powerfully, reclined lazily….?”

Advanced Verb Tenses

Had not even begun to relax, would have been horribly mortified, could not have ever correctly guessed…?

Creative Adjectives

Twelve colorful spinning tops, my swollen aching fingers….

Creative Nouns

Not ‘my dog’ - but - ‘my loyal canine companion;’ not ‘my sister’ – but – ‘my lifelong friend and loving sibling’…?

Synonyms/Antonyms

Describe things: The hot stove became a bulging burning appliance not a cold metal obstacle; or, she was thrilled, not resentful, to be omitted from the list.(?)

Similes/metaphors

It was as hot as a raging inferno; the solitary, reading third grader was a forgettable wallflower. (?)

Analogies

Smoke is to lung cavities as termites are to wooden beams.

Personal experience/emotions

I wept incessantly when my regretful, loving mother reluctantly informed me of the daunting task at hand.

Dialogue

She repeated, ”Now is the most magic moment for victorious celebration among our previously oppressed brethren!”

Examples, anecdotes

Used? ( “get tough quick” story)

Statistics, numbers

Quoted? (LIE, LIE, LIE some more-this is not an honesty test)

97% of FCAT writing test takers lie in their statistics.

Startling Facts

Used? (Lie some more)

Every school day, more than 100 students are killed by their high school teachers in the state of Florida.

Thought Shots

I thought, “They may think I don’t understand them, but I am catching every blasphemous word!”

Painted Pictures

Descriptions vivid with color and key details that draw pictures in the reader’s minds?

Sensory Words

SIGHT? Look like, appear, shine, color words, descriptive visually

SOUND? Sounded, thundered, echoed, blasted, screeched

TASTE? Sour, curdling, sweet, salty, bitter, creamy, tangy

TOUCH/FEEL? Texture, size, shape, descriptions. Smooth, silky, satiny, porous, thorny, soft, tender, firm, thick, hairy, gooey, sticky, rough, prickly, scratchy, etc.

SMELL? Aroma, scent, odor, descriptions. Aromatic, scented, odiferous, smells like…

Ex: Everybody was wretchedly vomiting from the smell of rotten eggs – it was sulfur.

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Assessment:

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