Come in

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• Come in
• Sit down
• Be quiet
• Wait for instructions

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Jane Schaffer Writing

• What it is
• What it is not
• Why we do it
• How to do it
• Why you wont complain

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WHO AND WHAT IT IS

• Jane Schaffer is an English teacher from San
  Diego, California.
• She developed this method to make it EASIER for
  students to write a multi-paragraph essay.
• The Jane Schaffer Writing System is a program the
  Riverview School District uses at Tolt and
  Cedarcrest to teach writing.
• This method gives all students and teachers in
  these schools a common language when discussing
  essays.

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WHAT IT IS NOT

• It is not the only way to create a response to a
  literary analysis prompt for writingit will not
  melt your brain as some have claimed.
• Learning this method will not take the place of
  other ways of writing cause spasms or other
  horrid writing side effects.
• This method will not replace the mode used for
  creative writing in your brain.

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WHY WE DO IT

• We learn the Jane Schaffer Method in 6th grade so
  that we will understand the vocabulary for
  writing at Tolt and Cedarcrest - and most high
  school English departments
• This prepares you for 7th and 8th grade
• All Language Arts teachers at Tolt will use these
  terms and expect you to know who to create
  chunk paragraphs
• We will be using this in other subjects as well
  so get used to it

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HOW TO DO JANE SCHAFFER

• This writing method at 6th grade uses four colors
  of PEN to create paragraph (this is why you are
  required to have a 4-color pen)
• RED IS FOR CONCRETE DETAIL (CD) Red ink is used
  to write a detail from the text that responds to
  the prompt
• GREEN IS FOR COMMENTARY (CM) Green ink is used
  to write your comments about the concrete detail
  and how it applies to the prompt

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MORE

• BLUE is for your TOPIC SENTENCE (TS) and for your
  CONCLUDING SENTENCE (CS) Blue ink is used for
  your topic and concluding sentences because they
  will relate to each other (but they wont be just
  alike)
• BLACK IS FOR YOUR FINAL DRAFT Black ink is for
  your completed paragraph AFTER you have created
  and perfected it using the other colors.

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What we will do today

• Today we are only going to practice finding one
  CD concrete detail
• Then maybe create one or two CMs commentaries
• For homework you will create the TS and CS
  topic and concluding sentences.
• THIS IS DUE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009

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WHY YOU WONT COMPLAIN

• I have heard students at Tolt moan and complain
  whenever I say Jane Schaffer. However, know
  this, in my class (whatever that may be) if I
  hear any complaints, moaning, crying, heavy
  sighs, or general expressions of horror, I will
  add on an extra JS paragraph homework assignment
  due the following day or during lunch depending
  on the loudness of the complaints.
• We do this here at all grade levels from here on
  out so get used to it.

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Prompt

• Which character in this story showed the most
  persistence?