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Do Now! Do Now! On your worksheet  Make a list of 3 physical and 3 mental challenges a person can face in a story or in real-life.

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1 Do Now! Do Now! On your worksheet  Make a list of 3 physical and 3 mental challenges a person can face in a story or in real-life.

2 Independent Reading

3 Free Writing & Brainstorming 8 th Grade Language Arts

4 What is Free Writing?  A strategy that allows writers to write freely without pressure to be correct or complete

5 Why is free writing helpful? 1. Gives a writer the freedom to write in an informal style 2. Helps the writer get ideas to prepare for a more complete and formal assignment 3. Helps writers clarify thoughts, spark new ideas, and/or generate content

6 How should I start free writing? 1. Pick a topic 2. Write down whatever comes to mind 3. Don’t cross anything out or erase anything 4. Don’t worry about grammar, spelling or punctuation 5. Keep writing the whole time

7 What is Brainstorming?  Helps writers develop and improve fluency with thinking  Allows writers to discover new ideas and relationships between concepts  Gets the mind going to generate and organize thought processes, new ideas and information

8 How Can I Brainstorm? 1. Make a bulleted list 2. Make a web or map 3. Free write  Can you think of any other ways of brainstorming?

9 How to make a web… Music 1. Pick a topic and write it in the center.

10 Music 2. Write down any sub-topics connected to your main topic. Genres Cultural Music Artists Venues How to make a web…

11 Music Can you add to any of these topics? Genres Cultural Music Artists Venues Rock Rap Country Toad’s Place Xfinity Music Center Webster Music Hall Usher Luke Bryan Latin Opera Irish Bagpipe How to make a web…

12 Music 3. Add specifics to your sub-topics. Genres Cultural Music Artists Venues Rock Rap Country Toad’s Place Xfinity Music Center Webster Music Hall Usher Luke Bryan Latin Opera Irish Bagpipe How to make a web…

13 5 Minute Web…… 1. Pick a Topic you know a lot about 2. Create a web for your topic **DON’T STOP WRITING UNTIL TIME IS UP** Think about activities or hobbies you enjoy!

14 On your own…

15 Homework  Finish reading chapters 20 and 21 for tomorrow  Finish comparing 2 new characters www.psa8.wikispaces.com

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