Narrative/Descriptive Notes...Grading

1.   Journal-   What thinking skills does one utilize when creating origami?  Why?

2.  Lottery and Questions-  Groups.

3.  Notes, Notes… Practice Grading.


TAP:

Topic--  What it's about---  Interesting to others.
Audience-- Who it's for-- It's for a general audience.
Purpose-- Why it's being written.  It could be to entertain, explain, etc.

6-Traits (of grading/writing)

Some educators got together and decided that good writing is made up of these 6 things.  There's no way great writing can be boiled down into a list, but this is a passable way to teach and grade writing, and it's a also a pretty good framework for understanding the beginning.

Voice:                                Personality in your writing.
Ideas and Content:            Important/Interesting topics and support of those topics.
Conventions:                    Grammar
Word Choice:                   Choosing the best word.
Sentence Fluency:           A good mix of short and long sentences.
Organization:                   A good plan for your essay.

Writing Process-  Steps we follow to make a successful paper, in this order:

Invention:      Creating ideas.  We use a journal, tv, radio, friends, etc. ( Ideas and Content)
Organize:       This is planning out our ideas in some type of logical order.  (Organization)
                       Use an outline, word web, or list.
Draft:             This a practice essay.  It's our first try- don't worry about gram errors  (Voice)
Revise:          To re-look.  Look again at sentences, organization, ideas, etc. ( Word choice, Sentence F)
Edit:               Finding and fixing grammatical/syntactical errors. ( Conventions)
Publish:         Publish means perfect.  No editing mistakes. ( We're done!)

3.  Grading Sheets:  Here...

4.  Essay to grade in groups...Wesley Dukes... #4, I think.  Scroll down to Read, Here.

5 .  HW-  Reading, Storytelling…