Non-Traditional Instruction: Mrs. Hamlet
The work that we will be completing for our non-traditional instructional days will focus on one prompt. Each day you will complete an important step in the writing process, and at the end of the NTI days, you will have a complete writing piece to submit.
Prompt: Which is a better place to spend the day: the beach or an amusement park? Give plenty of reasons to explain your choice.
Common Core: Writing Anchor Standard 1: Write argument pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
DAY 1- SOLAR ECLIPSE DAY!!!- WRITE About WHAT YOU SAW THAT DAY
Day 2: Complete a brainstorming organizer to help you develop your thoughts. This can be completed as a web, or just an outline. Make sure you have a topic sentence for each paragraph.
Day 3: Create your introduction paragraph, as well as your conclusion paragraph. This is a rough draft, so do not focus too much on spelling or grammar.
Day 4: Create your three (or more) body paragraphs. Be sure to refer back to your organizer!
Day 5: Edit your rough draft, looking only for transition words. Make sure you have at least five different transition words throughout your writing piece.
Day 6 Edit your rough draft, looking only for complete sentences. Make sure you have a variety of sentence lengths throughout your writing piece. Try to add parenthesis, a semicolon or a hyphen if possible.
Day 7: Edit your rough draft, looking only for capitalization and punctuation errors and word choice. Make sure every sentence ends with the correct punctuation. Look for words that seem very basic or elementary, and try to improve them using a thesaurus or online tool if possible.
Day 8 Final draft. Create a final draft of your writing piece. Make sure you have included all of your changes and improvements!
Day 9: Create an illustration to represent your writing. This should be in color if possible. It needs to be created by you- not computer generated.
Day 10: Read your final draft to someone in your home. Have them sign the top of your final draft as evidence they have heard your story.