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LANGUAGE ARTS GRADE 7 REQUIREMENTS Mrs. Marusa |
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Expectations for
Writing
Find topics and purposes for your writing that matter to you, to your life, to who you are and who you want to become. Keep a list of your territories as a writer: topics, purposes, audiences, genres, forms, and techniques. Try new topics, purposes, audiences, genres, forms, and techniques. Make your own decisions about what is working and needs more work in pieces of your writing. Be the first responder to your writing. Listen to, ask questions about, and comment on others’ writing in ways that help them move the writing forward. Create a handbook of writing and reading minilessons, recorded chronologically, with a table of contents. Produce at least three to five pages of rough draft each week and bring at least two pieces of writing to completion every six weeks (Rief 1992) Maintain a record of the pieces of writing you finish, and file finished writing chronologically in your permanent folder. Sometime during this academic year produce a finished piece of writing in each of the following genres:
Attempt professional publication. Recognize that readers’ eyes and minds need your writing to be conventional in format, spelling, punctuation, and usage. Work toward conventionality and legibility, and use what you know about format, spelling, punctuation, and usage as you compose. Keep an individualized proofreading list that you check your writing against when you edit and proofread. Enter words you don’t know how to spell, or aren’t certain of, on the personal spelling list you keep in your spelling folder. Take care of the materials, resources, and equipment I’ve provided for you. Establish and work toward significant, relevant goals for yourself as a writer each marking period. Take a deliberate stance (Harwayne 1992) toward writing well: try to make all of your writing literature. Work as hard in writing workshop as I
do. Re-create happy times from your life, work through sad times,
discover what you know about a subject and learn more, convey
information and request it, parody, petition, play, explore, argue,
apologize, advise, sympathize, imagine, look and look again, express
love and show gratitude.
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