1. 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.

Sharing a room with her sister wasn't always fun. Madeline was tired of always cleaning up after her sister Charlotte. Just because they shared a room, that doesn't mean they had to share the mess! Charlotte was always leaving dirty dishes on her desk, and there were always dirty clothes under the bed. Madeline had tried to talk to Charlotte about cleaning up the mess, but somehow talking didn't help.

There are TWO activities in a FORUM:

    1. 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.

 

 

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