ELA10 - Composition (2 credit), CSS, Melnyk

Learning Target (Curricular Competencies): Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

The best writing comes from your own interests and topics. This project involves starting an authentic writer's notebook to help you develop ideas for writing topics that might be used in later units that are meaningful and motivating. 

 Real writers use a notebook to:

• keep a record of observations and ideas.
• start drafts to use for later writing pieces.
• practice writing techniques.
• reflect on their writing process.
• practice writing fluency.

Task :

Complete 10 entries (You may use pen and paper and upload pictures, a simple word document or an online tool to create your writer's notebook.) 

Each entry should end with a statement about how the entry might be used. (could mention a purpose, a specific type of text, an audience etc. or a skill being practiced.) 

Example:

• Use this description in a short story or poem about....
• Use facts from this article to write a blog post on.... 
• List of ideas for a podcast about....

Form: Your entries can be:

• drawings  Example
• exercises   Example
• questions  Example
• ideas from pictures Example
• graphic organizers (use the examples in the folder called Graphic Organizers on the main page of the course)
• parts of a draft
• clippings 
• lists    Example
• anything that you might use someday in a piece of writing

Need some ideas?

List of entry ideas (from: https://www.ewing.k12.nj.us)

Submission:

Use the "1.8 PROJECT - Writer's Notebook" link on the main page of this section of the course to upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.