1. How Your Writing Has Improved
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How Your Writing Has Improved

2. Write an essay describing how your writing has improved over the 2010-2011 school year. Be sure to:
• Thesis Statement—How my writing
improved.
• Describe and explain each assignment.
• Describe and explain what you did
well/need to work on.

3. The Orange Houses/Baseline Story
A starting point to show where you are as a writer.
A starting point to show your comprehension skills.

5. Reader Response Basic Skills, Genre, and Fiction as a Dream
13 Writing Tips
An Evening with Ray Bradbury

6. Reader Response Where Does Creativity Hide The Fog Horn
Hills Like White Elephants
A Rose for Emily
The Story of an Hour

7. Fiction Short Story

8. Creative Essay Union Street Dead Poets Society
Reader Response
Creative Essay
Union Street
Dead Poets Society

9. Creative Essay

10. Reader Response Burn Poems Of the Mean and Sure Estate
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Poem Essay

11. Original Poem

12. Reader Response Forgetfulness The Devil in the Details The First Draft
7 Things I’ve Learned So Far
Night of the Living Syntax

13. Short Story