What is important in your world

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What is important in your world?

• A writing and IPod Lesson by
• Kim Cuevas
• 7-12 ELA Program Coordinator

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Sentence Fluency

• How the text plays to the ear.
• Reading aloud is essential to hearing sentence
  fluency.
• Variety of sentences is the soul of fluency.
• Repetition reinforces the key word or idea.
• Fragments should be natural diversions in the
  current.

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Now Listen and Watch

• Billy Joels We Didnt Start the Fire is his
  reaction to people saying nothing important had
  happened in his lifetime.
• Listen and focus on the rhythm of the song.
• You have the words, use your four-square
  note-maker in your group to evaluate the trait.
• Be ready to share with the whole class.

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Idea Development

• Heart of a writers message, which may take many
  forms.
• All other traits take their cue from this trait
  and work to make sure message is clear from
  writer to reader.
• It isnt the amount of detail that counts, but
  how vivid it is.
• A word about lists

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Evaluate the Student Model

• Use the embedded PostIt note to evaluate the
  student model for idea development.
• Rank the writer in each sub category. What has
  he or she done particularly well?
• Be ready to defend your position with an example.

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What has happened in your life?

• 5 minute free-for-all brainstorm.
• Use the posters around the room to write down all
  the ideas you have, by year of important events
  that have happened in your life.

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Your turn

• Using Billy Joels song as a model and your
  brainstorms, begin composing your own poems.
• Use the same rhythm and rhyme scheme as the song
  or do your own thing.
• Be creative and work hardI want to use your
  examples!