6 Traits Writing (With Carrie!!!)

3/27
Carrie met with us and added edits to our 2nd draft - make sure you pass in your FINAL draft (due Wednesday 4/2) with your first and second drafts.

2/13
We handed our 2nd drafts to Carrie and worked on some poetry -

A Cinquain is a five lined poem - please get the worksheet if you didn't receive it.

A Haiku - a three lined poem based on syllables.
The first line should have 5-6 syllables, the second should have 7-8 and the third 5-6 syllables.

See Carrie for examples (or google it!)

Homework:
Write 2 Cinquain's about any topic, type both, draw a picture for at least one of them (Please draw a picture for both if you can).
Write 2 Haiku's on NATURE, type both, draw a picture for at least one of them (Please draw a picture for both if you can)

2/6
No 6 Traits today.  We double checked to make sure everyone handed in their second draft of PLACE essay - also you should have made a copy of your 1st draft for Meg to hold onto.

2/1
To make up for missing 6 Traits on Wednesday we did a peer edit activity with Julia's 9th grade advisory.

(If you missed it, please see Carrie for a way to make it up)


1/23/13
1st we played '100 Words, More or Less' - In 6 minutes time, write a story using as many words on the piece of paper you received.  The student who writes a story with the most amount of words, wins!
*If you were not here, please complete.

HOMEWORK: 
2nd draft of 6 traits paper essay - Due next Wednesday - 1/30/13


1/16/13
Today we read "The Fence" by Craig Snider
**  If you were not in class you are expected to write a brief explanation of Mr. Snider's descriptive      words in his essay

We also went over the 6 Traits Writing Model for Assessment and Instruction - we did this to help us understand how and why we are being assessed and how to assess.

Carrie will hand back our papers by next week.  :)


1/9/13
Carrie was out sick today - we checked off the 6 Traits paper and a few students read them - we wrote down some of the descriptive words that each author had and also discussed how we improved them.  Several students decided to take back their paper and add some more descriptive words to it.

1/2/13
We discussed town dumps.
We then read "The Town Dump" by Wallace Stegner in groups of 2-3 and "graded" it with the 6 Traits Writing Rubric.

Here is the 6 traits rubric on google docs:
https://docs.google.com/a/metmail.org/file/d/0B0Mqh0Gr7lj8NDc2MDQ0ZTctMGIwNC00NjI3LTlhYmQtYTU0YWI2ZTE0OTI5/edit

HOMEWORK:  five paragraphs describing the place  - rough draft
Keep in mind, the five senses - the more you use, the better.  Also focus on organization.
Please attach the "mapping a place" worksheet to the five paragraphs

12/18/12
We are working on DESCRIPTIVE WRITING!!!

Students have started their descriptive writing of a PLACE, has participated in multiple mind maps of DESCRIPTIVE worlds for locations.

-  Students should have the mapping completed for their place with a photo to accompany it.  We will soon be writing detailed descriptions of the place we chose.

What place are you going to describe????

11/12/12
1st trimester the class was introduced to Carrie as their wring teacher and we started with POETRY!

We had dance parties and cafe poetry gatherings ... we read poetry and wrote poetry ...

What documents should every student have:
-  Emotions poems (minimum 3)
-  Bio poems
- Additional poetry written