1. English Year 9
Writing

2. National Exam: Writing
Aim:
Practice grading and improve your essays
Plan:
Grading on ”A Letter to Connect”
”A Postive Change” – your essays
Grade and write comments for your own essay
Improve your own essay and hand in

3. A Letter to Connect
Continue with your grading and comments of the texts
The actual grading
A discussion on grading

4. A Positive Change Today:
We will read one great example of what the text could sound like
We will look at examples of topics that you picked
A few great sentences from your essays
Grade your own essays on RWSnet
Improve your own essays

5. Topics
Topic Choices: Same Sex marriage, change of schools, parents moving to a new coutry
Seemed to be easier to write about something you know alot about or something that is very personal to you

6. A few great sentences from your texts
”What is the point of living, if you never feel alive?”
”Untill I decided not only to change school but to completely change my life”
”A lot of other people have experienced the same journey”
”However, just making same sex marriage legal is not putting an end to homophobia”
”I always try to go further and never stop to achieve my goals”
”It doesn’t matter which origin you have or which skin colour you have, we are all the same”
”I trusted the feeling in my gut that told me it woul all be worth it”

7. Your Texts: A Positive Change
Great texts, difficult to get started
Look though your texts and grade your own essays. Also write a comment for what you think you should improve and what you did well
A few things to look for are:
Spelling/grammar
Introduction/ending
Structure
Stick to the instructions, stay on topic