Do Now:

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Do Now
Discuss these ideas with your partner.

• Study the picture. What do you think is
  happening? Where or when is it taking place?

Suppose you were asked to write an essay about
joy or exuberance . Do you see some usable ideas
in your free-writing?
Write whatever comes to mind about the scene
depicted here. You might write about times when
youve felt the same emotions you think the
soldier is expressing or times when youve seen
people express strong emotions in a public place.
Try to write nonstop for at least five minutes.
Dont evaluate your writing just record your
thoughts.
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• Do Now Discuss with your partner which of the
  following sentences would be more effective in a
  school newspaper criticizing the food in the
  cafeteria. Why?
• First and foremost, the hamburgers that are sold
  in the cafeteria are dry in texture and cold to
  the taste.
• When I got to the cafeteria, I decided to try a
  sizzling hamburger, lean and juicy. Instead, I
  got a small dry patty so cold that the fat was
  congealed in tiny globs on top of the meat.

A. First and foremost, the hamburgers that are
sold in the cafeteria are dry in texture and cold
to the taste.
B. When I got to the cafeteria, I decided to try
a sizzling hamburger, lean and juicy. Instead, I
got a small dry patty so cold that the fat was
congealed in tiny globs on top of the meat.










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The Writing Process
Pre-Writing

1. Assess the writing situation with SOAPSTone
2. Experiment with ways to explore your subject
3. Settle on a tentative focus
4. Sketch a tentative plan--organization

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Aim How do you use prewriting/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?

• LISTING (brainstorming)
• List everything you can think of about a topic
• Rely on SHORT phrases!
• Topic Families
• Adoption
• The changing face of families
• Sibling rivalry

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?

• 2. Clustering (Mapping)is a visual way to
  discover ideas and relationships.
• Write your topic in the center of a sheet of
  paper.
• Draw a circle around it, and surround it with
  related ideas connected to it with lines.
• Think of still more ideas, clustering them around
  ideas already on the map

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Facebook
Music
Internet
Computer Uses
games
email
Word Processing
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic for your writing?

• 3. By asking relevant questions, you can generate
  many ideas and survey your subject.
• Who, what, when, where, why, and how?
• One student, writing about war protests, asked
• Who objected to the action?
• What were the objections?
• When were the protests voiced?
• Where were protests most strongly expressed?
• Why did protesters object?
• How did they make their voices known?

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?

• 4. Free writing is nonstop writing.
• A conversation with yourself.
• Forget about
• Diction
• Punctuation
• Grammar
• Spelling

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
Staten Island Technical High School










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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
General Topic
Staten Island Technical High School
Specific Topic

Invention/ Pre-writing
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?

• Does the topic interest me?
• Is the narrowed topic specific enough?
• Can I write about it in the space I have been
  assigned?
• Can I generate things to say about the topic?

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic?
Specific Topic



General Topic
The Facebook phenomenon
Technology on the rise
Images of women in video games
Invention/ Pre-writing
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic?
Facebook
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
Technology on the Rise
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
Images of women in video games
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to select a topic?
Specific Topic



General Topic
The Facebook phenomenon
Technology on the rise
Images of women in video games
Invention/ Pre-writing
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?

• Introduce readers to a place that you have
  visited. For example, you might take readers into
  an unfamiliar or exotic worlda scuba diving
  expedition, a spelunking adventure, or a boat
  trip through the Everglades. Or you could
  encourage readers to visit a favorite museum,
  historic district, or park (or discourage them
  from visiting a place you found disappointing).
  Or you could introduce readers to a foreign
  country or an ethnic neighborhood with which you
  are familiar.

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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?
General Topic Your Place
Italy
Great Adventure
Family Vacation Spot
Specific Topic

Invention/ Pre-writing
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Aim How do you use pre-writing/invention
techniques to explore a topic?

• What next?
• 3. Settle on a tentative focus
• A specific topic dominant impression
• 4. Sketch a planSpatial Organization
• An informal outline, like a list
• 5. Rough out an initial draft
• Focus on ideas and organization

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Homework 4

• For Tomorrow Settle on a tentative focus
  (specific topic) and the dominant impression
• For Friday Rough draft due to turnitin.com.
• Remember The first draft is the SLOPPY COPY.
• If you can say it, you can write it!