Upcoming Events for 7th Grade Writing

January 6, 2015

WECOME TO SECOND SEMESTER

2015

Pre-AP Strategies and Resources

                    This second semester we  will utilize Pre-AP resources and strategies for our writing activities. Writings of published authors will be used as models to learn from and imitate. Pieces about clarity and brevity in composing sentences will help greatly in polishing your own writing.

                      We will go in-depth in mastering common skills like commas in sentences, irregular verbs, homonyms, some frequently misspelled words, and more. If we have time to spare, we might go into diagramming of sentences.

                      BE ALERT! There will be lots of re-writing that will happen. As E.B. White said, "There is no great writing. There is only great re-writing."

Creative Writing

                      Since there will be 8th graders who have signed up for this elective, projects like biographical sketch and rhyming poems will be elevated to a more professional level and researched as such.