1. Welcome to Writing Workshop Please sign in

2. What will we be doing this year? The goal…  to write, reflect, and discuss topics that relate to our students  to be accomplished by linking Language Arts concepts to our writing tasks and writing in a variety of forms.

3. Our Class Schedule: Begin with a “Do Now” The Writing Workshop –Concept/theme based writing tasks –Mini-lessons on important elements for a particular type of writing. –Student-Teacher conferences. –Sharing-critiquing, reflecting, setting writing goals –Writer’s Notebooks

4. The Writing Workshop The Writing Process –Brainstorming/Prewriting –Drafting –Revising –Editing –Evaluating –Publishing

5. The 7 th Grade Portfolio Checklist Persuasive (ethics/change) Narrative (perspective) Expository Essay (awareness/power) Memoir (identity) Various Writer’s Notebook entries Peer evaluation and self- reflection is an essential component to end each major writing task

6. Meet All Deadlines!  All writing assignments begin in class.  Assignments not complete, after ample class time, must be completed at home.  Rubrics will come home for parent signatures after each major assignment.

7. Grading Policy Published, Final Writing Tasks– 50% Writer’s Notebooks/ Smaller Writing Tasks- 30% Class participation/Classwork (conferences, individual work and preparation of materials)- 20%

8. Due Dates and Contact Info Due dates can be checked by going to my teacher page and viewing the calendar. Email- llukac@spfk12.org jryan@spfk12.orgjryan@spfk12.org (period 5)