1. Multi-Media Writing Workshop
Week 3, Day 2
Multi-Media Writing Workshop

2. Blogging 30 minutes 11:30-12:00 Develop your blog further Gallery Walk
Work on the design
Create another entry
Describe what your blog is about
Gallery Walk
Go to whsmultimedia.weebly.com
Visit everyone else’s blog and read a little bit about what is being done.

3. Zinsser Chapter 3: Clutter
20 minutes
Read the text.
Answer the questions below
Identify 2-3 key sentences in which Zinsser makes his point the most clear.
Do you agree or disagree with his points?

4. Gallery Walk
Author: Choose one of your pieces to show to the class. Have it running on your computer
Audience: Take a blue paper and fill it out for the author, leaving it on the computer desk, face down.

5. Writing Reflection
Reflect on your skills as a writer by answering the questions below.
What are your strengths as a writer?
What do you need to work on?
Develop your reflection below by answering at least one of the following questions
What type of genre’s are you strong in or like writing the most?
Weak in?
Explain.
What is your style as a writer?
How do you revise your work?
How do you brainstorm?

6. Writing Pieces Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 1: Day 2: Week 1 Week 2
The Egg (narrative)
Color (poetry)
Fear (writer’s choice)
Day 2
Travel Writing Piece
New Use for an Ordinary Object
Day 3
Extended Definition
Day 1:
“I disagree”
Day 2:
American Identity
Pair Found Poem – American Patriotic Songs

7. Week 3
Day 1
“This I believe”
Blogging

8. Multi-Media Projects Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Day 2:Travel Prezi
Day 3: Garage Band – Spoken Word Poetry
Week 2
Day 1: Garage Band – “Road Not Taken”
Day 2: iMovie – 4th of July to me
Day 3: iMovie/Powerpoint – America Found Poem
Week 3
Blogging
Digital Storytelling (2)

9. Homework
Recommended Writing: Develop the American Identity piece into a full blown essay:
Recommended MM: Listen to a podcast called “This I believe”