Headline Hotline and Reflection Connection

Wednesday, 9/24
9/25 No School Teacher Training 9/26 Native American Day

During reading class, we read about:
1) How to write headlines
2) How to document your learning through reflection

During writing class, complete your reflection, write a great headline for your letter, and finish your letter to the future president.

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Headlines: How do you write them?

Tips 1
Tips 2
Tips 3
Tips 4

Summary

1. Be Short, Concise, Clear (strong verb, key words)
2. Be Interesting (appeal to audience; alliteration)
3. Be helpful (how information will benefit audience)
4. Be Fitting (question, how-to, Numbered reasons, puzzle according to need)

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Have you reached our goals?

Content: Did you research to understand and find a solution to your issue? Did you learn and apply the six traits: ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency, voice, conventions?

Process: Did you research, take notes, summarize, document sources, find key words, write a lead, draft, review, revise, draft, edit, style, publish?

Persuasion: Bandwagon, Experts, Anecdote, Rhetorical Question, Statistics, lead
Conventions: eliminate spelling, punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, margin errors?

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Answer these questions:
Checklists How to (Content, Process, Persuasion, Conventions)

Click this link if you are approved to complete this online. Be sure you have marked your evidence for conferences (this is my prewriting in a list; this is my freewriting about my ideas).

Writing Reflections on Content, Process, Persuasion, Conventions

What do you do? What have you learned?
Your answers will show what you know.

1. How did you find and remember the content you needed to explain your issues?


Suggestions:

* Google Search Strategies
* Resources Links
* Note-taking
* Citations
* Gist Statements
* Summaries
* Key Words
* Leads



2. How did you move from an idea to a published piece of writing?


Suggestions:

* Brainstorm
* Discussion
* Research
* Drafts
* Questions
* Audience
* Purpose
* Facts
* Connections
* Experiences
* Revision
o Elaborate
o Experience
o Explanation
o Evidence
o Questions
o Key Words
* Edit
o Spelling
o Capitals
o Punctuation
o Paragraphs
* Drafts
o Prewrite
o Summarize
o Gist
o Wiki
o Google Docs


3. How do you write persuasively?


Suggestions:

* Bandwagon
* Experts
* Anecdotes
* Rhetorical Questions
* Statistics
* Leads
* Paragraphing
* Introduction: Grabber, Question, Thesis
* Conclusion: Gist, Fact, Thesis, Question

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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