Writing For The Real World

Carney Crocker

Sheila Thompson

Response to the Aesthetic

Goals of Project

• The goal of the project is to increase and promote the skills of written communication in a variety of venues, in order to encourage life-long learning and application of skills.

Standards and Benchmarks

• Standard 4: Written Expression

• Utilizes a variety of writing forms and styles for various purposes and audiences. – Shares personal writing with others for

feedback.– Use the rules of punctuation and capitalization

in the writing process

Major Learning Activities

• Friendly Letter

• Business Letter

• Newsletter

• Short story

• E-Mail

• Scrapbook pages

Friendly Letter

• We practiced friendly letters to make believe characters, staff within the school, and The Rock.

Friendly Letters

• The students enjoyed experimenting with their writing of friendly letters.

Beginning to Write

Business Letter

• Letter To Tribal Chairman Concerning community littering and pollution concerns.

Short Story Basics

• The Legend of the Blue Bonnet

Practice sheet for preparing to write a short story

Poster

• Earth Day Posters to persuade people to stop littering.

Articles for Newspaper

• The students prepared articles for the newspaper on Earth Day activities.

Earth Day Articles and Pictures

Scrapbook Entry

E-Mail Basics