Self-Starter: (If you are absent, write this on a piece of paper that you can tape into your journal.) Listen to the music (if you are absent, see Ms. Dorsey to listen to the music) and write whatever comes to mind in relation to that music. What does it make you visualize and feel. You are writing a story, a description, a poem, or draw a picture and then explain it.
1. We are talking more about possible forms of PREWRITING.
PREWRITING is what you do to get ready to write (draft). We use PREWRITING to
-- Gather Ideas and Details
-- Focus (narrow) the topic
-- Decide on a tentative organization for the piece
Much of PREWRITING happens before we start to draft (actually write it down), but we often go back to PREWRITING activities when we need more ideas and details, or need more focus, or decide to modify the organization.
Today we are practicing various PREWRITING strategies.
2. Writers' Workshop
We are finishing our pieces about our own names. Each student should have a rough draft in his or her own notebook, and during Writers' Workshop create a quality/final draft on lined paper -- not paper torn from the notebook.
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