[etni] Fwd: teaching descriptive writing
- From: David Lloyd <dlloyd54@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:23:35 +0200
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From: Adele Raemer <araemer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: teaching descriptive writing
Using a passage of Malamud's description of George's neighborhood in A
Summer's Reading as a springboard, I am teaching my 11th grade 5
pointers to outline and write a descriptive passage. Since they didn't
understand my first explanation of outlining, I have designed these
(yet unpiloted) materials to teach them outlining backwards first
(from the text to the outline) so they can see the correlation, and
then, will have them write an outline for their neighborhood and use
it to wrote their composition (even though they protest...."But will
we get a grade for the outline on the bagrut"???? GGggggrrrrr)
Anyway - since I could not find exactly what I wanted I figured it
would be easier to just write it myself, and I did. Feel free to
cannibalize, plagiarize, shorten, whatever you want. No copyright
infringements here (just familial loyalties, maybe;-)
http://www.etni.org/teachers/adele/HamburgerModel.doc
http://www.etni.org/teachers/adele/Hamburger_sample.doc
http://www.etni.org/teachers/adele/MyHomeTown_Sample.doc
Let me know how it goes (my class are getting it tomorrow)
ATB
Adele
There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire
someone, or forbid your kids to do it. ~Mona Crane
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