Thursday, May 10, 2012

Your Class Blog & Genre Story

Welcome to this blog students in the 6th marking. Every day in class, please check this website. Our daily agenda will be posted here with all the directions concerning classwork and assignments.

Rubric for participation:
Every day you will be given a daily grade based on your participation.
  • 1 point = on-time, working effectively on writing projects, does not disrupt other students; spends time in class writing.
  • 1/2 point = tardy, mostly working on writing projects (may spend some time talking, disrupting other students or surfing the internet BUT is productive, getting assignments done on time. Spends most of the students time in class writing, but may be off-task a bit.
  • 0 points = disrupts other students in class by talking, touching, pushing, hugging, hitting, etc. Must be reminded to get work done. Spends most of the class in off-task activities (surfing the internet, playing games, etc.) or engaged in disruptive behavior (loud or obnoxious behavior). Writes little, but puts no effort into work.
It is important to READ these posts. All directions for an assignment are posted here. I usually break down an assignment by steps. Follow the steps to complete the projects.


For example: Today's assignment: Genre Story

1. Working alone or with one partner, please work on the following assignment today in class.
2. Looking at your list of tropes (completed this week in class), select a genre for a fiction story. You may COMBINE genres if you wish. For example: you may wish to write a fantasy-mystery story.
3. Look at the tropes you listed for your chosen genre. Tropes are typical characters, events, and items that occur in stories of this kind.
4. Use your list of tropes and include as many of them as you NEED to write an interesting story.
5. Your story should be well written, creative, and show appropriate effort.
6. If you are working with a partner, work together to suggest sentences and story ideas that you will write. Share the burden of typing by switching off. Make sure BOTH your names are listed on your paper.
7. Save your work to your creative writing folder on the network drive (H: drive). Call this assignment: Genre or Trope Story.

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