Communication

ASSIGNMENT 7: Editing Forum

Learning Target (Curricular Competencies):

  • Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context
  • Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
  • Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking

Task:

Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people.  You've practiced it in this unit.  Now demonstrate your editing skills.

  • Dialogue is essential to fiction writing.
  • Dialogue brings characters to life and adds interest.
  • Dialogue must do more than just duplicate real speech.
  • Writing dialogue consists of the most exciting, most interesting, most emotional, and most dramatic words.

Re-format the following paragraph into a dialogue.  Focus on the starting each new conversation on its own line, using the correction punctuation, developing an appropriate voice.  Use dialogue tags for each speaker. Feel free to embellish and change things, if you'd like. You could come up with your own scenario, too.  Perhaps you've had a similar experience.

Tim was working the front counter/drive-thru at his fast-food job.  A customer asked for extra pickles for her hamburger.  Tim knew that when he rang it in to the till to let the back crew know, that the customer would be charged extra.  He let the customer know that there would be an extra charge, as per store protocol.  She went ballistic.

There are TWO activities in a FORUM:

    1. Go to the main page of the course and click on 2.7 Editing Forum.  Start a new discussion topic by clicking on Add a New Discussion Topic.
    2. Reply/Respond to someone else's discussion topic by clicking on their topic and selecting Reply.  Comment thoughtfully. Make an observation. Ask a question. Try using the following prompts to guide your response to another post.  "I wonder…"  "I know…"  "I can…"  Don't just agree or disagree.

Assessment:  Below you will find the exemplary criteria used to assess the assignment.  

Learning Target: (Exemplary 6/6): Exemplary comprehension of the task and clear accomplishment of the objective.  Student demonstrates exemplary ability to develop and punctuate dialogue in personal, creative, and critical ways.  Accomplishes the purpose with originality, individuality, and maturity and sophistication.

Response/Reply:  Exemplary (6/6):  The response/reply is thoughtful, insightful and respectfully exchanges ideas and viewpoints.  Student demonstrates an exceptional level of understanding and communication of shared information.

Submission:

Use the "2.7 Editing Forum" link on the main page of this section of the course to post your forum response to your teacher for marking.