My Writing Territories

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My Writing Territories
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Your Writing Territories

• What is a territory?
• Your Territories are the things you write about.
• Topics
• Genres or Types of Writing
• Audiences for your writing
• Your territories can be things you have written
  about, or want to try to write about.
• Territories are about
• Who you are as a person.
• Roles you have in life Student, Child, Friend,
  Athlete, Musician, etc.
• Territories are your own personal idea bank!!

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Mr. As Writing Territories- Topics

• Story/Book Ideas
• A Young Adult story about life in Middle School.
• A Mystery novel idea
• Places Ive Been
• Africa
• Europe
• Soccer Trips
• The Oregon Coast
• The Mountains
• My Family
• My parents
• My Wife
• My Cats
• My Son Derek
• Being a parent
• Coaching

• Becoming a cat person
• Politics
• How to make schools better.
• Music- U2
• World Issues
• Poverty
• AIDS in Africa
• Rich vs. Poor
• Becoming a teacher
• Being a teacher
• Why Im not a lawyer or a politician.
• What it means to believe in something.
• The Chris My Best Friends
• Why does life have to be hard?

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Mr. As Writing Territories- Genres or Styles of
Writing

• Letters
• Informative Letters
• Persusasive Letters
• Letters to the Editor
• Memoir- A personal story from my life
• Newspaper Column
• Song Lyrics

• Paragraphs
• Essays
• Short Stories
• Novels
• Chapters of a book
• Poetry
• Editorials

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Mr. As Writing Territories- Audiences for My
Writing

• You- My Students
• Other Teachers
• My Writing Group from the Summer
• My wife and family
• My Friends

• Writing Contests
• Writing Magazines
• People to get a piece of writing published.
• Publishers
• Editors
• Literary Agents

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In collecting your writing territories, consider

• Passions
• Sorrows
• Risks
• Accomplishments
• Fears/Worries
• Family
• Friends
• Fads
• Favorites- old and new
• Pets- old and new

• Memories
• Early, Earlier or Recent
• Idiosyncracies
• Things that you do that are totally unique to
  you.
• Problems
• Dreams
• Understandings
• Itches Understandings
• Confusions

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In collecting your writing territories, consider

• Teachers- old and new
• Places
• School, camp, trips, times away
• Hobbies
• Sports
• Games
• Music
• Books
• Poems
• Songs

• Movies
• Writers and artists
• Food
• Pet peeves
• Beloved things
• Objects and possessions both old and new
• The things you love in life
• The things you love about life.

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Creating your territories

• On Page 3 of your notebook, create this chart
  with the title My Writing Territories

Places
Things
People
Events
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Creating your Territories

• Fill in as many things as you can think of in
  this chart.
• Then on the next page of your notebook, title it
  My Writing Territories
• Write down topics for you to write about
• Write down types of writing you want to do or try
• Write down ideas for audiences for your writing.