Writing - Connect and Dream [Oct. 25, 2012, 1:28 p.m.]
Generate some writing by doing one of the following in a new Google Doc: Freewrite,LoopsComposing Guidelines. Then revise your writing based on feedback you recieve from your teacher and peers and by adding, subtracting, rearranging, replacing text. Use Structured Essays to organize your writing, but don’t post it yet. Finish the next two tasks before you post.
Choose one of the following:
At the beginning of |
"The loop writing process |
Sondra Perl's Composing |
It may seem strange at first to generate a free flow of writing from freewriting, loops or guidelines (in the first part of this task)...
... and then be told in the second part of this task to use a very structured guide, some of which almost seem like fill-in-the-blank exercises.
You need to find your own way between these two extremes. Try both, and you'll end up with a mess, but from this mess you can begin to create your own argument.
Try one of these!
Choose a title in the list below to find detailed scaffolds that make explicit what is expected in many different types of discussion posts and comments on Youth Voices. Once you've internalized these guides, we encourage you to mix and match different paragraphs, and to go beyond the use of a guide as well.
- Quoting a speech, conversation, trip, assembly, guest speaker, panel discussion, event...
- Class Study or Inquiry
- Personal Inquiry
- Dialogue of Authors: Occupy Wall Street (as an example)
- Dialogue of Authors: Olsen, Baldwin, Garbarino (as an example)
When you have finished your second or third drafts by getting feedback from your peers and by using one of the guides listed above, copy this draft from your Google Doc and paste it into a comment here (on this P2PU task), then click Yes, I'm done .