2. Writing For The Real World Carney Crocker Sheila Thompson Response to the Aesthetic

3. Goals of Project The goal of the project is to increase and promote the skills of written communication in a variety of venues, in order to encourage life-long learning and application of skills.

4. Standards and Benchmarks Standard 4: Written Expression Utilizes a variety of writing forms and styles for various purposes and audiences. –Shares personal writing with others for feedback. –Use the rules of punctuation and capitalization in the writing process

5. Major Learning Activities Friendly Letter Business Letter Newsletter Short story E-Mail Scrapbook pages

6. Friendly Letter We practiced friendly letters to make believe characters, staff within the school, and The Rock.

7. Friendly Letters The students enjoyed experimenting with their writing of friendly letters.

9. Beginning to Write

14. Business Letter Letter To Tribal Chairman Concerning community littering and pollution concerns.

18. Short Story Basics The Legend of the Blue Bonnet

19. Practice sheet for preparing to write a short story

22. Poster Earth Day Posters to persuade people to stop littering.

23. Articles for Newspaper The students prepared articles for the newspaper on Earth Day activities.

24. Earth Day Articles and Pictures

27. Scrapbook Entry

31. E-Mail Basics