Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 293

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Fantastic strategies for getting high school students excited about writing This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the off-beat and attention-grabbing lessons include such gems as "Literary Facebooks," where students create a mock Facebook profile based on their favorite literary character, as well as highly practical lessons like the "College Application Essay Boot Camp." These writing lessons are written by experts--and favorite novelists, actors, and other entertainers pitched in too. * Road-tested lessons from a stellar national writing lab * Inventive and unique lessons that will appeal to even the most difficult-to-reach students * Includes a chart linking lessons to the Common Core State Standards 826 National is an organization committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work, and offering services for English language learners.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword

Acknowledgments

The Authors

50.1 826's History

50.2 Our Student Programming

The Contributors

Chapter 1: Details (Golden), Character (Immortal), and Setting (Rural India)

Step 1: The Power of Observation (12 minutes)

Step 2: Apply the Lesson of the Peruvian Caiman to Any and All Writing (5 minutes)

xStep 3: Knowing the Difference in Details (25 minutes)

Step 4: Interviewing Your Peers While Observing Them Shrewdly (15 minutes)

Step 5: Immortalizing Your Subject (30 minutes)

Chapter 2: Literary Facebooks

Chapter 3: Suburban Epics

The Exercise

Alternately

Chapter 4: Busted

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Chapter 5: How to Write Science Fiction

Step 1: Imagine a World

Step 2: Create Your Character(s)

Step 3: Bring Your World and Your Characters Together

Chapter 6: Writing from Experience

Chapter 7: Too Much Money!: An Ethical Writing Experience in 10 Easy Steps

Introduction (5 minutes)

Chapter 8: The Talk Show Circuit

Talk Show Exercise

Chapter 9: The First Draft Is My Enemy: Revisions

Chapter 10: See You Again Yesterday: Playing with Time

Exercise 1: Scramble a Story

Exercise 2: Write a Story Backwards

Exercise 3: Write 100 Unrelated Sentences

Exercise 4: Begin and End with Two Random Sentences

Bonus Exercise: Character Development

Chapter 11: Look Smart Fast: College Application Essay Boot Camp

Thinking Inside the Box

The Keyhole Essay

The List That Is More Than a List

Chapter 12: Writing About Painful Things

Chapter 13: Mutant Shakespeare

1. Text-Splicing

2. Literary Telepathy

3. My Boyfriend's Eyes Are Like Twin iPods

4. Time Travel: Secret of a Sonnet

Chapter 14: How to Write a One-Person Show About a Historical Figure

Select Your Subject

Research

Write Your Show

Acting

The End

Chapter 15: Writing for Gamers

Exercise 1: Imagine the Opposite

Exercise 2: What's Behind the Door?

Exercise 3: The Emergent Story

Chapter 16: Humor Writing: An Exercise in Alchemy

Lesson Plan

Fake Memo

Humorous Version of School Newsletter

The Acceptance Speech

Chapter 17: On Pining: Write a Verse to Make Them Stay

Chapter 18: Adding Insult to Poetry

Chapter 19: Bad Writing

Lesson Plan

Chapter 20: Where Stories Come From

Chapter 21: Word Karaoke

Chapter 22: Tall Tales and Short Stories

Chapter 23: Welcome to the Funhouse: Writing Funny Scenes

Scenario #1: The Great Made Small, the Small Made Great

Scenario #2: A Tale Told by an Idiot

Scenario #3: The Wrong Person for the Job

Scenario #4: Overlooking the Obvious

Scenario #5: The Monkey in the Palace of Heaven

Scenario #6: Defending the Preposterous

Scenario #7: Slang and Language

Scenario #8: Confusion, Delusion, and Mistaken Identity

Scenario #9: Things Happen Too Fast

Scenario #10: Ridiculous Ambition

Scenario #11: Exaggeration/Grotesque

Scenario #12: Try a Little Tenderness

Chapter 24: Voicemails from My Future Self

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Chapter 25: How Short Is Short?

Chapter 26: Comic Composition Challenge!

How to Play

Chapter 27: My Boring Life

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Chapter 28: Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Candlestick: How to Write a Mystery

Chapter 29: Creating Characters

Exercise 1: Creating a Toolbox

Exercise 2: The Elevator

Exercise 3: Profiling

Chapter 30: High School Confidential: How to Write a Young-Adult Novel

Chapter 31: Get Your Haiku On

Chapter 32: The Essay

Chapter 33: The Story of Me: Writing About Your Life and Your Family

Chapter 34: Meet Your Protagonist!

Chapter 35: All Witnesses

Chapter 36: Wicked Style and How to Get It

Session 1

Session 2

Chapter 37: President Takes Martian Bride: Writing Tabloid Fiction

Chapter 38: Lying for Fun and Profit

Chapter 39: This Class Sucks

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

When Is Salt Not Salty?

A Four-Star Exercise

Moving Outside the Comfort Zone

Chapter 40: Screenwriting

Chapter 41: How to Write a Ghost Story

An Exercise

Another Exercise

Now That Everyone Is Properly Spooked …

Chapter 42: 826 Unplugged: Songwriting

Chapter 43: Sportswriting: The Life

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Chapter 44: How to Write a Fan Letter Without Getting a Restraining Order

Chapter 45: Exquisite Story Lines

Chapter 46: Soul Prowlers: The Art of Writing Newspaper Profiles

Session 1: How to Interview

Session 2: The Elements of a Profile

Session 3: Putting It All Together

Chapter 47: Homestyle: Writing About the Place Where You Live

Chapter 48: Agitate! Propagandize!

Part I: A Brief Introduction (15 minutes)

Part II: Warming Up (45 minutes)

Part III: Oh, Boy (What Have We Done?) (60 minutes)

Chapter 49: Tasty Medicine for Writer's Block: Mindful Writing Exercises

Activities

Chapter 50: High School Ink: Getting Published

Make It Awesome

Market Info

Appendix

Middle School Evaluation Rubric

High School Evaluation Rubric

Middle School Self-Assessment Checklist—Nonfiction

Middle School Self-Assessment Checklist—Fiction

High School Self-Assessment Checklist—Nonfiction

High School Self-Assessment Checklist—Fiction

Common Core Curriculum Standards

826 Centers and Staff

How to Use This Book

1. Come on in. Have a look around. Check out the Table of Contents to see if anything catches your eye.

2. All of our workshops are different, so all of our lesson plans are too. Generally, there's an outline of the lesson for you and sometimes a handout for the students. We've tried to make them as user-friendly as possible.

3. To help you plan your class, we've headed each lesson plan with a time estimate. This is how long the class generally runs. In your classroom it might go slower or faster, but we've tried to ballpark it for you.

4. As much as we've tried to make things fun, we've also tried to keep things simple. A three-ring writing circus with actual trained animals and cotton candy machines would be great fun for your students, but a great big headache for you, so we've tried to keep the supplies and prep to a minimum. We've headed each lesson plan and activity with the list of materials it requires. Most of the time this will consist of things you already have on hand. Fancier fixings are optional.

5.We encourage you to adapt these lessons to suit you and your students. These lessons were taught in an after-school environment, with students who were there by choice, so we expect they'll need some tweaking to work for you. Make them yours.

6. Sometimes you might have extra time and want to do something really, really special. When you do, look for the Superteacher bonus activity icon. It looks like this:

Superteacher Bonus Activities

Superteacher bonus activities are optional additions to the lesson plan that require a little more effort, but are guaranteed to dazzle your students.

7. In the Appendix you'll find some other tools we hope will make your life easier: evaluation rubrics to guide grading, student self-assessment checklists, and charts to show you which Core Curriculum guidelines each lesson plan meets.

8. We'd love to hear how it goes. Any suggestions? Comments? You can contact us at [email protected]. Send us your own favorite lesson plan, or samples of your students' fabulous work. We'd love to see it.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Don't forget to write for the secondary grades : 50 enthralling and effective writing lessons (ages 11 and up) / 826 National. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-118-02432-4 (pbk.)

1. English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States. I. 826 National (Organization)

LB1631.D59 2011

808'.0420712--dc23

2011025957

Foreword

The first indication that this isn't your normal writing center is the storefront you have to pass through to get to the classroom. It might be a pirate shop, featuring a large selection of peg legs and eye patches, or it could be a robot repair lab, presided over by a burping automaton. It might be a time travel mart, offering dodo chow and 50-year calendars; or a superhero supply store with a phone-booth changing room. Past the shelves of student-authored books, zines, and newspapers, students slip through the secret door to the classroom. This doesn't look normal, either. There are plush couches inviting you to curl up and read, big mahogany tables begging you to hunker down and write, and some fixtures that make no sense at all, like portholes, or a fully functional grocer's scale. The teacher appears to be wearing a wig and a Viking helmet. Just what is going on here?