Mrs. Sochacki at ABVM Catholic School

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The power of&nbsp;the written word is incredible! 
John, Ben,&nbsp;George and friends got together, 
wrote it all down and started a new&nbsp;nation! 
What will&nbsp;YOU do with YOUR writing?!? <hr size="2" width="100%" />COPYRIGHT BASICS - <a href="http://www.copyrightkids.org/cbasicsframes.htm">HERE</a> BLOGGERS BEGIN! 

Let your voice be <strike>heard</strike>...READ! Writing your WORDS...
Here are brain jogs to get your words rolling off your pen or pencil:
1."Like a ten-speed bike, most of us have gears we do not use." -- Charles
Schulz&nbsp;
2."Everyone must row with the oars he has." -- English proverb&nbsp;
3."When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." -- Ethiopian proverb
 
4."Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -- Joseph Addison
 
5."You can't win unless you know how to lose." -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
 
6."You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." -- Indira Gandhi 
7."He
that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else." -- Benjamin
Franklin 
8."Hold fast to dreams 
For if dreams die 
Life is a
broken-winged bird 
That cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes
<div>9.&nbsp;9."Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." --
Unknown 
10."If you have much, give your wealth. 
If you have little, give
your heart." -- Arab proverb 
11."An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his
eyes." -- Cato the Elder 
12."There is a great distance between said and
done." -- Puerto Rican proverb 
13."Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing." --
Aesop 
14."Make friends before you need them." -- Unknown 
15."Give a man
a fish and you feed him for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for
a lifetime." -- Chinese proverb 
16."The way to be nothing is to do nothing."
-- Nathaniel Howe 
17."If you were another person, would you like to be a
friend of yours?" -- Unknown 
18."To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue."
-- proverb 
19."Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was
tired." -- Mark Twain 
20."Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is
the probable reason why so few engage in it." -- Henry Ford 
21."Don't judge
a book by its cover." -- English proverb 
22."The reason a dog has so many
friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue." -- Unknown 
23."You
will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." -- Unknown
 
24."If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." -- Unknown 
25."You can
encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou
 
26."We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we
are much closer to finding what will." -- 
Thomas Edison 
27."We must be
authors of the history of our age." -- Madeleine Albright 
28."You can't
unscramble eggs." -- John Pierpont Morgan 
29."A book is like a garden
carried in a pocket." -- Chinese proverb 
30."No individual has any right to
come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and
legitimate 
reasons for having passed through it." -- George Washington Carver
 
31."We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat
now." -- Martin Luther King Jr. 
32."Choose your socks by their color and
your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes
no 
sense. Choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."-- Unknown
 
33."Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." -- Thomas
Edison 
34."Each life is like a letter of the alphabet. Alone it can be
meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning." -- Unknown 
35."Your
children need your presence more than your presents." -- Jesse Jackson 
36."A
friend who lies for you may also lie against you." -- Unknown 
37."The price
of your hat isn't the measure of your brain." -- African-American Saying
 
38."The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
 
39."We are wiser than we know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
40."Friendship
with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with
anyone else in the world." -- 
Eleanor Roosevelt 
41."People don't get
along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't
know each other. They 
don't know each other because they have not properly
communicated with each other." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
42."You have
brains in your head. 
You have feet in your shoes. 
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose. 
You're on your own. 
And you know what you
know. 
And you are the guy 
Who'll decide where you go." -- Dr. Seuss, Oh,
the Places You'll Go! 
43."Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor
wears, while the used key is always bright." -- Benjamin Franklin 
44."He
that flings dirt at another dirties himself most." -- Thomas Fuller 
45."Be
kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- John Watson 
46."The
trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many
answers." -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist 
47."The sleeping fox catches no
poultry." -- Benjamin Franklin 
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<div> WRITING A MEMOIR: &nbsp; <a href="http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/memoir/teacher/index.htm">http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/memoir/teacher/index.htm</a> Memoir Writing - <a href="http://www2.aes.ac.in/mswebsite_07/teachersites/mtabor/2_LA/Memoirs/index_memoirs.html">http://www2.aes.ac.in/mswebsite_07/teachersites/mtabor/2_LA/Memoirs/index_memoirs.html</a> 
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<div>Personal Narrative&nbsp;- 100 points 
A personal narrative is written about an experience the author has participated in himself or herself. With this writing piece will work on the five paragraph essay format.</div>
Paragraph #1 - introduction 
Paragraph #2, #3, #4 - each gives insight about a particular aspect of the experience using dialogue, sensory details, an anecdote.... 
Paragraph #5 - concluding paragraph pulling it together, drawing a conclusion, posing further action, restating the event.... 
 
Introduction - 11/10/10&nbsp;&nbsp; 
p9 - Adding Details using "who" - due TH 11/11/10 
p10 - Unity - Revising to Unify - due TH 11/11/10 
p11 - Coherent Paragraphs (pre-typed)&nbsp;- complete by end of class in computer lab - 11/11/10 
p12 - Unified Paragraphs - due 11/16/10 
p16 - Types of Introductions - due 11/16/10 
p17 - Organization &amp; Coherence...Transitions - in class 11/16/10 
p18 - Types of Conclusions - in class 11/17/10 
 
BRAINSTORM ideas into Graphic Organizers, Word Bank, include Sample Dialogue - 11/17/10 
 
p26 Prewrite idea helpers, p27 Elaboration, p30 Dialogue (mini lessons) - TH 11/18/10 
 
finish&nbsp;Graphic Organizer (include sample dialogue), Word Bank - due TH 11/18/10 
 
Typed Rough Draft - due Mon 11/29/10 
 
Get peer review signatures in classs - Mon 11/29/10 
 
FINAL draft due Wed 12/1/10 
Final Personal Narrative (60 points possible)&nbsp;including: 
1. graphic organizer (10 points possible) 
2. word bank&nbsp; (10 points possible) 
3. rough draft with peer review signatures (20 points possible) 
TOTAL = 100 points possible 
&nbsp;ALL &nbsp;DUE Wed 12/1/10 
 
 
Coherence: Making Connections....Creating Coherent Paragraphs 
 
Follow directions for revising these paragraphs. 
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Robert Frost became famous as a poet of rural New England. However, 
Frost was actually born in San Francisco, California. He worked unseccessfully 
as a schoolteacher and a a chicken farmer. In 1884, at the age of ten, Frost moved 
to the East, where he spent the rest of his youth and young adulthood. 
Discouraged, Frost moved to England with his familyin 1912. In 1915, he 
returned to the U.S., where publishers were finally ready to print his books. 
His first two collections of poetry were published in England in 1913 and 1914 
&nbsp;and were praised by British critics. 
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Toward the end of his long career, in January of 1961, the poet received 
an unusual honor when he was chosen to recite one of his works 
at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Frost received the first of several 
Pulitzer Prizes for his verse in 1923. His poetry won him great popularity; and 
when he died in 1963, Frost was the most honored and best-known American 
poet. 
 <hr size="2" width="100%" /> A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW 7.RL.6 ANALYZE HOW AN AUTHOR DEVELOPS AND CONTRASTS THE POINTS OF VIEW OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OR NARRATORS IN A TEXT. <hr size="2" width="100%" /> 
Character Description
 
 Descibe a person you know who lives a life of helping others. Give more than physical traits. We want to know about their nature, their mannerisims, who they are in your life. Use words that show us or demonstrate their character, their gifts, their form of giving. Use strong verbs to show us who they are. Do they demonstrate a life of service, a life given to others? How? 
 
Notes - Tues Jan 18, 2011 
Graphic Organizer - Wed Jan 19, 2011 
Word Bank - Thur Jan 20, 2011 
Strong Verbs to demonstrate Lesson,&nbsp;Review RUBRIC&nbsp;- Mon Jan 24, 2011 
begin Rough draft in class&nbsp;- Tuesday Jan 25, 2011 
Discuss/share/ compare with peers - Wednesday Jan 26, 2011 
Review pronouns, add stronger vocabulary, check organizational structures, look at samples&nbsp;- Thur Jan 27, 2011 
Typed Rough Draft due Monday Jan 31, 2011 
Peer Review of rough drafts - Mon Jan 31, 2011 
FINAL TYPED PAPER DUE WED FEB 2, 2011 
 
 
Character Description - 100 total points possible 
 
graphic organizer - 10 points possible 
word bank - 10 points possible 
rough draft with peer review signatures - 20 points possible 
Final Draft - 60 points possible 
<hr size="2" width="100%" />SHIPWRECKED! 7.RL.9 COMPARE AND CONTRAST FICTIONAL PORTRAYAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT 7.W.9 DRAW EVIDENCE FROM LITERARY AND INFORMATIONAL TEXTS TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS, REFLECTION AND RESEARCH. <hr size="2" width="100%" />A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW 7.RL.6 ANALYZE HOW AN AUTHOR DEVELOPS AND CONTRASTS THE POINTS OF VIEW OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OR NARRATORS IN A TEXT. <hr size="2" width="100%" />"PROVE IT!" RESEARCH HUNT 7.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital resources, search terms effectively, assess credibility and accuracy, quote and paraphrase, citation format followed. 
 
 
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Mrs. Sochacki at ABVM Catholic School

7th Writing-Composition