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  • Writing Unit

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Why Write?
  • Why is it important to know how to write well?
  • What are the benefits of good writing?
  • What are the consequences of bad writing?

3
Talk Show
  • If you could be on televison, the radio, a talk
    show, etc. and voice your opinion, would you? Why
    or why not?
  • How can this apply to writing?

4
Attention!
  • How do you capture someones attention? How do
    you keep their attention?
  • How can you convince someone of your position in
    writing?

5
Case Building
  • How do you convince your parents or guardians to
    let you do something or let you have something?
    What works? What definitely does not work?
  • How can you build your case in an essay?

6
Lasting Impression
  • How do people make a lasting impression on you?
    What can you do to make a lasting impression on
    someone else?
  • How can you make your writing make a  lasting
    impression ?

7
Distracting Behaviors
  • What are annoying or distracting behaviors that
    make you avoid people or impact your ability to
    listen to what they are saying?
  • What are some distracting behaviors in writing?

8
Visual Appeal
  • What makes an outfit look good? Be specific.
  • OR
  • What makes a car/truck look good? Be specific.
  • What makes writing look good?

9
True Writing
  • Ernest Hemingway said,  Good Writing is True
    Writing 
  • What does this mean? Do you agree or disagree?

10
My Writing
  • What is your greatest strength in writing?
  • What is your greatest weakness?
  • Specifically, how can you improve your writing?

11
Soul Writing
  •  Writing is the soul on paper 
  • Do you agree with this quote? Why or why not?

12
  • Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
    observations, readings, and examples that you
    could use.
  • Write a speech for rising freshman on the meaning
    of perseverance.
  • Perseverance is failing nineteen times and
    succeeding the twentieth Julie Andrews
  • Life is not easy for any of us. But what of
    that? We must have perseverance and above all
    confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we
    are gifted for something, and that this thing, at
    whatever cost, must be attained Marie Curie
  • Perseverance is not a long race it is many
    short races one after the other. Walter Elliot
  • Perseverance is the hard work you do after you
    get tired of doing the hard work you already
    did. Newt Gingrich
  • Just remember, you can do anything you set your
    mind to, but it takes actions, perseverance, and
    facing your fears. Gillian Anderson
  • Using the information presented, your
    experiences, observations, and/or readings, write
    a speech for rising freshman on the meaning of
    perseverance.

13
Synonyms for Common Writing
  • Look at your Synonyms for Common Writing Handout.
    Find 5 words out of the list that you often use.
    Circle/highlight 3 of the synonyms you could use
    in place of the common word. Record information
    on Global introduction sheet.

14
Cause and Effect
  • Event Student fails a course for the 9 week
    period
  • What are possible causes for this event?
  • What are possible effects?

15
Cause and Effect
  • Event Student has a minor car wreck
  • What are possible causes for this event?
  • What are possible effects?

16
Powerful Verbs
  • Look at your 100 Power Verbs Handout. Find and
    highlight/circle 5 words that appeal to you.
    Create a sentence using each word.

17
Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
observations, readings, and examples that you
could use.
  • Write a speech to present to your school board in
    which you examine the causes behind academic
    cheating at the high school level.
  • Recently the Educational Testing Service
    published an advertisement titled, Cheating is a
    Personal Foul. The following information was
    presented in the advertisement.Academic Cheating
    Fact Sheet
  • Academic cheating is defined as representing
    someone else's work as your own. It can take many
    forms, including sharing another's work,
    purchasing a term paper or test questions in
    advance, paying another to do the work for you.
  • Statistics show that cheating among high school
    students has risen dramatically during the past
    50 years.
  • In the past it was the struggling student who
    was more likely to cheat just to get by. Today it
    is also the above-average college bound students
    who are cheating.
  • Grades, rather than education, have become the
    major focus of many students.
  • Math and Science are the courses in which
    cheating most often occurs. Computers can make
    cheating easier than ever before. For example,
    students can download term papers from the world
    wide web.
  • According to the 1998 poll of Who's Who Among
    American High School Students, 80 of the
    country's best students cheated to get to the top
    of their class. More than half the students
    surveyed said they don't think cheating is a big
    deal and most did not get caught.

18
Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
observations, readings, and examples that you
could use.
  • Read the following quotations
  • Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of
    imagination that swirls in the depths of the
    mind.-Anonymous
  • Art does not reproduce what we see it makes us
    see. Klee
  • Do not quench your inspiration and your
    imagination do not become the slave of your
    model. Vincent van Gogh
  • We are told never to cross a bridge until we
    come to it, but this world is owned by men who
    have crossed bridges in their imagination far
    ahead of the crowd. Anonymous
  • The man who has no imagination has no wings.
    Muhammad Ali
  • The process of imagining, or of forming mental
    images or concepts of what is not actually
    present.- Websters
  • Using the opinions presented in the quotations
    above, as well as your own experiences,
    observations and/or readings, write a college
    application essay to an art school in which you
    discuss the definition of imagination.

19
Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
observations, readings, and examples that you
could use.
  • Read the following quotations
  • I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
    Aeschylus
  • Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that
    if you just show up and try to do the right
    thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch
    and work You dont give up. Anne Lamott
  • While theres life, theres hope. -CiceroNever
    deprive someone of hope it might be all they
    have. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • Young people have an almost biological destiny
    to be hopeful. Marshall Ganz
  • Hope is necessary in every condition. Samuel
    Johnson
  • Using the opinions presented in the quotations
    above, as well as your own experiences,
    observations and/or readings, write a letter to
    senior citizens in which you discuss the
    definition of hope.

20
Powerful Verbs
  • Look at your 100 Power Verbs Handout. Find and
    highlight/circle 5 words that appeal to you.
    Create a sentence using each word.

21
Create a FAT-P for this prompt and list any
observations, readings, and/or experiences that
you could use
  • Read the following quotations
  • Where there is love, there is pain Spanish
    Proverb
  • Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not
    envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is
    not rude, it is not self-seeking. It is not
    easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
    Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with
    the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
    always hopes, always perseveres. Love never
    fails. -1st Corinthians 134-8 The Bible
  • All love that has not friendship for its base,
    it like a mansion built upon the sand. Ella
    Wheeler Wilcox
  • Love is everything its cracked up to beIt
    really is worth fighting for, being brave for,
    risking everything for. -Erica Jong
  • Using the opinions presented in the quotations
    above, as well as your own experiences,
    observations and/or readings, write a Valentines
    Day editorial to a magazine or newspaper in which
    you discuss the definition of love.

22
Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
observations, readings, and examples that you
could use.
  • On August 20th, 1999, CNN published an article
    titled, Televisions Effects on Kids It can be
    harmful, by Daphne Miller.
  • The article stated that the average child in the
    United States spends about 25 hours a week in
    front of the television (including the use of
    VCR), according to the latest annual Media in the
    Home survey, conducted by the Annenberg Public
    Policy Center-a number significantly exceeding
    the maximum limit suggested by the American
    Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
  • Over the past several decades a number of
    studies have shown that there are several ways
    that television can be harmful to the mental and
    physical health of children. Thats not to say
    that all television is bad for kids. In fact, a
    number of quality childrens showsengage kids in
    positive ways. However, when children watch
    television frequently and indiscriminately, the
    effects can be detrimental.
  • For exampleThe Media in the Home survey found
    that 28 percent of all childrens shows contained
    four or more incidents of violence per show-a
    number that media experts consider high.
  • There appears to be a strong relationship
    between time spent in front of the television and
    being overweight.TV watching (especially
    late-night and violent shows) has been connected
    with poor sleep patterns in children.
  • Using the information presented, your
    experiences, observations, and/or readings, write
    a speech to present to your communitys
    elementary and middle school Parent/Guardian
    Associations in which you examine the harmful
    effects of children watching too much television.

23
Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
observations, readings, and examples that you
could use.
  • Read the following quotations
  • Opinions founded on prejudice are always
    sustained with the greatest of violence.-Francis
    Jeffrey
  • Prejudice is the child of ignorance. Hazlitt
  • There are those who are asking the devotees of
    civil rights, When will you be satisfied? We
    can never be satisfied as long as our bodies,
    heavy with fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging
    in the motels of the highways and the hotels of
    the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as
    the Negros basic mobility is from a smaller
    ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied
    as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and
    a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for
    which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and
    we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down
    like waters and righteousness like a mighty
    stream. from I Have a Dream by Martin Luther
    King, Jr.
  • Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the
    personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate
    destroys a mans sense of values and his
    objectivity. It causes him to describe the
    beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and
    to confuse the true with the false and the false
    with the true. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Prejudice-Irrational suspicion or hatred of a
    particular group, race, or religion. American
    Heritage Dictionary
  • Using the opinions presented in the quotations
    above, as well as your own experiences,
    observations and/or readings, write an editorial
    to your local newspaper in which you discuss the
    meaning of the word prejudice.

24
Powerful Verbs
  • Look at your 100 Power Verbs Handout. Find and
    highlight/circle 5 words that appeal to you.
    Create a sentence using each word.

25
Make a FAT-P for this prompt and jot down
observations, readings, and examples that you
could use.
  • Read the following information
  • The excerpts listed below originally appeared in
    a 2000 article published by Focus Adolescent
    Services titled Youth Who Drop Out One-Third of
    Those Who Enter High Schools Dont Graduate.
  • More than half the students who drop out leave by
    the tenth grade, 20 quit by the eighth grade,
    and 3 drop out by the fourth grade.
  • Nearly 25 changed schools two or more times,
    with some changing for disciplinary reasons.
  • Almost 20 were held back a grade, and almost
    half failed a course.
  • Almost one-half missed at least 10 days of
    school, one-third cut class at least 10 times,
    and one-quarter were late at least 10 times.
  • 8 spent time in a juvenile home or shelter
  • One-third were put on in-school suspension,
    suspended, or put on probation, and more than 15
    were expelled.
  • 12 of dropouts ran away from home
  • Reasons Why Youth Drop Out
  • Didnt like school in general or the school they
    were attending.
  • Were failing, getting poor grades, or couldnt
    keep up with school work.
  • Didnt get along with teachers and/or students.
  • Had disciplinary problems, were suspended, or
    expelled.
  • Didnt feel safe in school
  • Got a job, had a family to support, or had
    trouble managing both school and work.
  • Got married, got pregnant, or became a parent.
  • Had a drug or alcohol problem
  • Using the information presented, your
    experiences, observations, and/or readings, write
    a speech to present to your classmates in which
    you examine the causes, influences, and reasons
    behind why high school students drop-out.

26
Powerful Verbs
  • Look at your 100 Power Verbs Handout. Find and
    highlight/circle 5 words that appeal to you.
    Create a sentence using each word.

27
Support and Elaboration
  • Statement The administration has the right to
    examine the contents of a students cell phone.
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!

28
Support and Elaboration
  • Statement Schools need to have a dress code to
    create a healthy learning environment.
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!

29
Support and Elaboration
  • StatementThe Legal Dropout Rate should be raised
    to 18.
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!

30
Support and Elaboration
  • StatementTexting while driving should result in
    a 500 fine.
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!

31
Support and Elaboration
  • StatementEnd of Course Tests (EOCs) should be
    eliminated.
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!

32
Support and Elaboration
  • StatementStudent Athletes should be tested for
    Drugs
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!

33
Support and Elaboration
  • Statement The Supernatural (ghosts, aliens,
    angels, etc.) exists.
  • Agree or Disagree and Give Specific
    Reasons/Support for your Position!
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