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 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
Basics