Our Poetry Anthology Ideas!

Writing Ideas

Use any of these as the beginning of a story!

• I have one green eye and one brown eye. The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.
• The ghost was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
• "Be nice," my father said. "After all, he's your brother."
• I am the most famous twelve-year-old in the United States.
• Jason had never felt so foolish before, and he hoped he'd never feel so foolish again.
• If somebody didn't do something soon, they were going to have a catastrophe on their hands.
• Alison was the runt of the family, born small and ill-favored, and by the time she was thirteen, she was still small and ill-favored.
• It was a witchy house: the low-slung roof; that quiet gray pain; those squinting, shuttered windows; and the empty porch rocker that rocked, rocked, rocked day and night.
• The first time I saw Stephen, he pained a hex sign on my right arm, and I couldn't move my fingers for three hours.
• Ms. Fleming's wig had gone missing.

Writing our persuasive essays with our audience in mind!

Adding Quotations to our Argument Essays!

Tonight's 10 minutes of writing should be continuing to add quotations to our argument essays to make our writing powerful! 

Chocolate Milk Debate Articles

Click the top left corner to view each article!

Researching for our Persuasive Writing Unit!

Should our school serve chocolate milk or not? Check out these videos to collect more information!

Information Writing Checklist

Below is the checklist we are using to assess student's information writing. Students have seen and interacted with this checklist since the start of our research report unit. We have used it to reflect on our writing and make goals for this 2nd piece. Ask your student what their goal is and if they are working to achieve it on their 2nd research report. Click on the arrow on top left corner to minimize the left margin and show the whole checklist.

Native American Research

Native american overview from Nicole Schaefer

Tips on Note-Taking

• Read a section of text, pause to think about what is important, and then write your notes.
• Consider the main ideas and supporting details as you read. A structure like boxes and bullets can help you organize your notes.
• Instead of copying from the text, put the information in your own words. (If this is hard, don't look at the original text when recording notes.)
• Keep track of your source so you can return later to confirm or get more information.