Day 3: Ground Rules, SAS and writing

Writing: Think of a time when you were little and you did something you shouldn't have done. Describe both the incident and the feelings they created.

Forming Ground Rules:
What do you need from a community of learners to do your best work?
What do you need during discussions?
What do you need during class writing workshops?


List 5-7 things for each question

Go around the room and list items on board
Narrow down list to 10 items per question

Review: Speaker, Audience, Subject --> and relationship between these three items

Weekly Post #1

What writer are you going to follow? What does your writer writer about? And for whom? Why do you like this writer or are you interested in reading his/her work?

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Day 2: Why I Write and crafting your own answer

1. Discussion of reading: What is writing to the author? How does the author interact with writing? How would you describe the style of each writer? (in groups and then share out)

2. Clarity: What is it? Purpose? How does a writer achieve it? WSJ article.

3. Finding your own voice: What is voice? What components make it up? When you think of your own writing, what three things do you think stand out about your work? What makes your writing your own? How would a teacher know you from a peer? (solo and then share out)

4. Start writing: Why I write. Three pages max. Think about Orwell and Didion and Welty. Think about discussion.

Day 1: We begin

1. Class introduction (basic contact info, writer to follow, writing every day, who are you?)

2. What is good writing? What is good story-telling? Podcast! TAL: Return to the Scene of the Crime

3. Write: How do you see yourself as a writer? How would you like to see yourself as a writer?

4. Let’s read: Orwell’s “Why I Write”