Writing the Right Way!

J12- Free Write

J13- Describe a time you outsmarted or “outfoxed” someone.

J14- Write about a day in the life of a misfit.

J15- Write and inner dialogue of an icicle in the springtime. Show the emotional journey that it surely experiences!

J16- You are an animal in a zoo. What animal are you? What is your life like?

Go to these DWA responses:

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Read through them. You will analyze three of them in a one paragraph response. One paragraph EACH.

Pick…

1. lower-scoring

2. middle-scoring

3. high-scoring

…to analyze. Discuss the things that hindered (weaknesses), and helped (strengths), the score of each essay.

3. Finally, in 2-3 sentences discuss what you took away from reading these essays? What will you more mindful of while writing your essay?


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When you finish this. Go to Utah Write: Lessons: Intermediate: Appositives and complete the lesson.

On the same piece of paper, write:

1. One example from Exercise 1

2. One example from Exercise 2

3. One example from Exercise 3

4. Summarize what an appositive is and when you would want to utilize them.

5. How can you use appositives in you DWA essay?

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Here are the assignments for the lessons: (To be written on a separate piece of paper.)



Utah Write: Elaboration in Essays

         Lessons: Advanced: Elaboration in Essays

1. Write a 1-2 sentence summary on what you learned for each part. (There are two parts.)
2. Define:
   1. A refutation-
   2. Rhetorical question-
3. List 3 other ways in which one can elaborate in essays. (Hint: evidence!)

 

Utah Write: Punctuation Practice

         Lessons: Grammar: Intermediate: Punctuation Sets 1-3

1. For each set (three) write:
   1. The rule of one that you got wrong.
   2. The rule of one that you got right. J

                   

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Here are the assignments for the lessons: (To be written on a separate piece of paper.)

Utah Write: Conventions

         Lesson: Intermediate: Conventions

1. Capitalization: write all the rules for capitalization.
2. Quotation Marks: Write all the rules for quotation marks.

 

Utah Write: Sentences

         Lessons: Intermediate: Sentences

1. Sentence Variety: List 3 ways we can make sentences more interesting. Write an example for each. (You may us an example from the exercises you do…)
2. Run-ons: 1. List the different types of run-on sentences. 2 List all of the ways in which we can FIX run-ons.

 

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