Welcome to Writing Workshop

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Welcome to Writing Workshop
Please sign in
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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.

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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
• Writers Notebooks

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The Writing Workshop

• The Writing Process
• Brainstorming/Prewriting
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Evaluating
• Publishing

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The 7th Grade Portfolio Checklist

• Persuasive (ethics/change)
• Narrative (perspective)
• Expository Essay (awareness/power)
• Memoir (identity)
• Various Writers Notebook entries

Peer evaluation and self-reflection is an
essential component to end each major writing task
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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.

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Grading Policy

• Published, Final Writing Tasks 50
• Writers Notebooks/ Smaller Writing Tasks- 30
• Class participation/Classwork (conferences,
  individual work and preparation of materials)- 20

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Due Dates and Contact Info

• Due dates can be checked by going to my teacher
  page and viewing the calendar.
• Email-
• llukac_at_spfk12.org
• jryan_at_spfk12.org (period 5)