1. Please Do Now
Think. Where would you go to just think. If you were asked to write a story or anything really, what would be the ideal environment? Music? Quiet? Inside? Outside? Table? Floor? Couch? Early? Late? Assigned topic? Freedom or choice of topics? Please share your preferences with your partner.

2. Gary Soto

3. Judy Blume

4. How Writers Work Looks like:
Set aside specific time for writing each day.
Decide if you need silence or a certain distraction
is okay.
Be open to ideas from anywhere.
Look to your life for ideas.
Read often and from varied sources.
Let a piece sit before trying to revise.
Don’t be afraid to throw out chunks of writing.

5. Writer’s Workshop Looks Like
Writers working independently.
Writers collaborating with a peer or a small group.
Writers revisiting mentor texts for ideas.
Teachers and writers conferring.
Writers working in their Writer’s Notebook or journal.

6. Writers Workshop Sounds Like
Writers actively listening to their peers & teacher.
Writers sharing with their peers and teachers.
Writers moving about the room quietly.
Pencils scratching and pens gliding.
Writers whispering to themselves.
A quiet hush.

7. Writer of The Simpsons, Frasier and
Jay Kogen
Writer of The Simpsons, Frasier and
Malcolm In The Middle

8. Rodman Philbrick

9. Veronica Roth Environment
Environment

10. Christopher Paolini

11. Please Do Now Grab your journal. Write this title on Page 2 –
My Writing Environment
Read your thoughts from yesterday.

12. Markus Zusak The Book Thief

13. John Green

14. My Writing Territories
Turn to page 3. Write the date. Fold the page in half – making two columns List everything you could write about. Yup, everything. Need to go to page 4…do it!

15. Expressive & Reflective Choose one topic – sticky note?
Let’s Write! Page 23
Choose one:
Expressive & Reflective Or
Inform & Explain
This is the title.
Choose one topic – sticky note?
One full page.