Elaborate and Persuade

Help the president decide!

Use the strategies from reading class to list your key words and write your lead.

Elaborate and Persuade; Key Words and Leads
(See Reading Lesson--
Sources--
Key Words:
Ask -- What are the main ideas of your your issue? What are the main/key words? When people search google for ideas, google looks for the key words in the page. If people were to google for your letter, what words would they need to enter in the search bar?

Let's look at these lesson materials:

http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Choosing-Keywords-Help/Effective-Keyword-Choice-Strategy-and-Useful-Tools/

Topic for Site: How to choose key words --- note the table of contents to several pages of ideas

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Once you have chosen your key words, you can create a good lead.

Leads: How to write great leads
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2007/10/31/the-seven-most-important-leads-types-for-bloggers/

How tos for writing great "leads"
http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/organization/leads.html

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Use these pages in addition to our discussion to write in your notebook or on your wiki president page: 1) key words and 2) a good lead

Continue revising and editing your letter.

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10:50 Peer Review 2

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President Pondering

For 9/22

Entry:
What is going well?
What are you having problems with?
How do you remember what you read?
What is plagiarism?

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Setting Up Google Docs for those with permission slips.

Practice document:
https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/L2P-Task-1
For those without permission slips

http://sites.google.com/site/askwhatelse/Home/l2p-task-1
For those with permission slips

Main L2P page:
https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Letters-To-The-President

Only five more days (Mon, Tues, Wed; Mon and Publish on Tues 9/30)

Let's share your views!

So Far

What have we learned so far?

At Letters to the President we have completed most of Steps 1-8, which includes:

Permission Slips: NSD, network, AUP, Google Docs, Questionairre, contract
Issue definitions through research
Google Search Strategies
Note-taking Strategies
Gist Statements
Summary Statements

Our work so far: TOC

Only five more days to write to the next president!

Welcome

Writing: a work in progress.

"If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, "Make it shine. It's worth it." Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!"

Naomi Shihab Nye

Let's revision our words into powerful prose!

After all, you've been doing it for four years in writing class. You've got the right stuff!

Ms. Edwards