Writing assignment period 2: Get involved / Heroes

Your P.O. in the 2nd period is a writing assignment

Options:

1) Write a profile piece about a 'hero'

2) Write an essay in which you try to covince your reader to get involved about a current issue. 

Today:

1) Read a few profile pieces to get inspired
2) Make a checklist: what should be in a profile piece?
or:
1) Read a few persuasive essays to get inspired
2) Make a checklist: what makes a persuasive essay: what are the requirements? 

Profile pieces. Choose 2 (
links in mail):

1) Stormzy: British rapper who paid for students to go to university 
2) Demi Lovato: singer who speaks up about mental health
3) Greta Thunberg: young climate activist
4) Ilham Omar: immigrant Muslim American politician

Essay pieces: persuasive essays
(links in mail)

1) Living more green

2) Get involved in politics as a teenager

Today:

1) Read a few profile pieces to get inspired
2) Make a checklist: what should be in a profile piece?
or:
1) Read a few persuasive essays to get inspired

2) Make a checklist: what makes a persuasive essay: what are the requirements? 

Bring your completed checklist on Friday. 

Also: t/m ex. 23 should be done at the end of the week. 

THE NEXT STEP!

writing assignment 2nd period. 

What is the correct structure of an essay?

1. statement - argument - example - conclusion
2. catching opening - argument - argument - statement
3. catching opening - statement - arguments - conclusion
4. statement - idea - question - opinion

Lesson 4: peer editing

So what is peer editing?

A peer is someone your own age.

Editing means making suggestions, comments, compliments, and changes to writing.

❖Peer editing means working with someone your own age – usually someone in your class– to help improve, revise, and edit his or her writing.

3 steps

•Step 1 – Compliments

•Step 2 – Suggestions

•Step 3 - Corrections

1) Compliments

Stay positive when you’re giving feedback.
Remember that you are trying to help your peer improve his/her work; you’re not trying to discourage them.

Step 2: suggestions

Making suggestions means giving the author some specificideas about how to make his or her writing better. Remember:
–  Stay positive and be specific!

–  Instead of, “It didn’t make sense,” say, “If you add more details after this sentence, it would be more clear.”

–Instead of, “Your word choice was boring,” say, “Instead of using the word good, maybe you can use the word exceptional.”

Step 3: corrections

Corrections means checking your peer’s paper for:

–Spelling  mistakes

–Grammarmistakes

–Missingpunctuation

–Incomplete or run-on sentences

Geen copy/paste: maak je eigen zinnen. 

Exercise: you will look at your classmates draft and you will peer edit them

Follow these 3 steps:
1. write down three compliments 
2. write down what can be improved upon

3. make corrections: spelling, grammar, etc.

Rewrite your own first draft

- Take out your first essay or profile piece
- Edit your own work. Use the feedback you have been given.
- Rewrite your essay
- Hand in BOTH VERSIONS to your teacher.