Writing+Activities

=NARRATIVE = For my unit, students had to write a one day journal entry about the life of a cowboy. The entry was supposed to include things like what the student (as the cowboy) ate, did, and how they traveled and where they slept.

=PERSUASIVE = I had my students complete a persuasive writing assignment on the day that we learned about inventors. The assignment was for students to create and title an award for the inventor that changed our lives as Americans the most. Then, the students had to write a 5-7 page paragraph persuading people to vote for the inventor that they think deserves the award the most.

=EXPOSITORY = For an end of unit performance based assessment, students could choose one element from the standard that interests them the most, research that topic, and complete an expository writing assignment on the topic. Requirements would be a pre-writing organizer, a rough draft, editing stages, a conference, and a final draft with a bibliography.