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Grade 9, Writing Std # 1: Exhibit proficiency in the use of the writing process in four modes of writing Writing Process: Prewriting Drafting Revising Editing Four Modes of Writing: Narrative Descriptive Expository Persuasive

Lesson Plans: Biography Maker Students choose a topic, research the answers to probing questions, pull together resources, and create a biography. A template is included to help turn the biographies into Web pages that can be published on a classroom Web site. Discovering Someone's Cultural Identity & Writing a Biographical Story About Them Students learn about other class members by interviewing them, writing, and peer editing (Click "Okay" twice when initially entering website) Persuasive Writing Students use persuasive writing in commercials and formal essays Lesson Plan Designed around students analyzing a variety of web sources about school bus safety. This lesson is great as it is written or could become a model for a new lesson on another topic Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press Using library and online sources, students create time lines of the life of Johannes Gutenberg and tell the impact his invention, the printing press, had on the development of newspapers To Kill a Mockingbird CyberGuide After reading the novel, students use print and online resources to extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration. Students write a reflective essay and a persuasive essay Lemon Writing/ Introduction to Autobiography or Journal Students gain fluency and confidence in this prewriting activity An Analysis of Literary Devices Used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X Students are exposed to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" and Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet." After reading and analyzing the speeches, students will create their own persuasive speeches utilizing some of the same devices as King and Malcolm X. Like the Back of My Hand The purpose of this exercise is to introduce students to writing for fun. Persuading an Audience: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor Students write a persuasive letter to the editor of a newspaper, focusing on a current local or national issue and requesting a specific action or response from readers. You're the Top! Pop Culture Then and Now This lesson, appropriate for most secondary classrooms, entails writing about present-day pop culture as well as learning about pop culture of the past by using Cole Porter’s song “You’re the Top!” (1934) to touch on many issues relevant to a language arts classroom, especially the literary technique of cataloguing.

Resources: The Writing Process Website Links to several sites featuring the writing process Writing Den Divided into sections entitled Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs, this site provides lessons, tips and examples to improve writing DO's & DON'T's Tips on how to write a good essay. Word and the Writing Process Microsoft Word lessons and tutorials Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers The strategies discussed here can be used to combat what some believe is an increasing amount of plagiarism on research papers Rubric For Evaluating Resources For Data Lists the proper questions to ask and supplies web resources to use as examples of good and bad resources Guide to Grammar and Writing Worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, and many more types of useful teacher information
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