The Writing Challenges course provides students with opportunities to flex their writing muscles and evolve their work into excellent texts!
The purpose of this course is to provide students who want to excel beyond their current writing level and improve their writing with in-class exercises, motivated by each major assignment being a winnable contest.
Over the course of 3-4 week units, students will be provided with exercises, materials and resources that will help them achieve the major project due at the end of each unit. Each lesson will begin with a five-minute writing warmup and will always have an opportunity for students to work on their major project in the lesson with teacher assistance. Each major assignment will be given robust feedback and a score out of 20 in order to determine our high achievers after each unit.
Unit 1 (Topic: Perspective) (weeks 1-3)
Objectives: To write with unique voice, vocabulary and point of view
Main tasks/projects:
Unit 2 (Topic: Persuasion) (weeks 4-7)
Objectives: To communicate an opinion with evidence using strong persuasive language
Main tasks/projects:
Unit 3 (Topic: Genre) (weeks 8-10)
Objectives: To write fiction prose using descriptive imagery and conventions of a genre
Main tasks/projects:
Unit 4 (Topic: Poetry) (weeks 11-13)
Objectives: To write using poetic language and forms adhering to a theme.
Main tasks/projects:
All Grades: Write a fixed verse and a free verse poem of 32 lines or less.
Unit 5 (Topic: Description) (weeks 14-16)
Objectives: To write using descriptive language in nonfiction prose.
Main tasks/projects:
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