Monday, February 23, 2015

The Stages of the Writing Process Period 1 Creative Writing

Review the stages of the Writing Process as found on the handout from class. Building on the discussion from your table,which stage of the Writing Process do you consider to be MOST CHALLENGING (that is which is most difficult for you or other writers to go through)? WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE BLOG FIRST TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF FOR GRADING.

Which stage do you consider to be the MOST IMPORTANT to writers? While there is no wrong or right response for this question, you must SUPPORT your reasoning with strong evidence. You may use some of the ideas from the actual handout to build your response.

Your total response must be no less than 6-8 sentences. PLEASE DO NOT SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTION. INSTEAD, BUILD AN ARGUMENT AROUND THE POINTS YOU ARE MAKING.

All students must respond to one other student's response to complete this blog.

When you respond to your peer's blog, you must agree or disagree respectfully and SUPPORT (using a few sentences) WHY you are agreeing or disagreeing.

Review the Blog rubric to determine how your grades would be assigned for this blog activity.


Happy blogging!!!


SMART GOALS FOR 2ND PERIOD FOR SPRING 2015

Please click on this link below to arrive at PADLET.COM where you will write your goals for spring 2015. Follow the guidelines carefully as you develop your goals!

SMART GOALS FOR SPRING 2015


Having COMPLETED your Smart goal and having DETERMINED which goal best meets the requirements of a smart goal, you must now create a paragraph of at least 5-6 sentences in which you address the question:

Why is setting goals an important aspect of an individual's life.

In your response, write your definition of a goal, explain some of the things that must be considered when individuals set goals and determine/explain/justify how and why goals can help in shaping progress. Also, consider how failure to set goals can mean failure to succeed.

Having written your original post, you must respond to another classmate's post to complete your blog for grading.
Follow previous methods of blogging for classmate's reponses.