Moderskeppet - Kurser om foto, bildbehandling och Photoshop. Common Core in Action: Narrative Writing. There is a panic amongst writing teachers that is based on the myth that our baby, narrative writing, is shunned by the Common Core standards. I'm here to encourage everyone to take a deep breath and repeat after me: "Nobody puts baby in a corner. " True, there has been a redistribution of priorities towards more fact-based writing. However, I don't see that as a roadblock for teaching story. In fact, blending your genres, incorporating them all, makes students stronger overall writers. In today's post, I'm here to encourage you: teach narrative by folding in informational fact while still encouraging beautiful writing.
Why We Need to Teach Narrative The chart below outlines the new percentages of genres, according to the Common Core, with which students should be interacting during their time in school: To address this shift, we need to focus more on creative non-fiction or fact-based narratives. Fact-Based Evidence Producing bibliographies of their resources using APA or MLA format. Block. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma.
In the afternoon I put it back in again. —Oscar Wilde Easy reading is damn hard writing. —Nathaniel Hawthorne I don’t want to go on about this too much, but there is a passage in each of those books which I found almost impossible to write and then harder and harder to rewrite. I hope never to have to look at those passages again. – Colm Toibin The very process of putting words on paper is an extremely laborious process. . – William Styron Writing is extremely difficult for me and I’m never quite sure about it. . – George Plimpton Block. . – John McPhee ‘Nuff said. Like this: Like Loading... The five best arguments for striking Syria — and the best rebuttals. The original rationale for the Iraq War was that the United States wasn’t safe so long as Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice famously warned. President Obama consults with advisers over Syria.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) But it quickly became clear that that wasn't enough to justify a war. So other arguments were trotted out -- each suggesting more ambitious goals, and thus requiring more expansive means, than the last. Some reasons had nothing to do with Iraq at all. “Afghanistan wasn’t enough,” Henry Kissinger is reported to have told speechwriter Michael Gerson. The Iraq War was, at the start, all things to all hawks. The spread of arguments for invading Iraq were catastrophic: Americans were not prepared, and ultimately did not support, the war they got. 1. The counterargument: “If we go in with a surgical strike and the regime survives, is that really punishment?” Teaching is the Core. Teaching is the Core: Successful Common Core Implementation Across New York State Across New York State, district administrators, principals, teachers, and BOCES are working hard to implement Common Core standards and instruction into their classrooms and schools.
Their hard work is paying off and positively impacting all students. Download this videoRight-click on the link above and select "save link as" or "save target as" and save the video as an .mp4 file. Embed this videoUse the code below to embed the video on your website: NF SOURCE Awesome Stories.
Multigenre Research Project Rubr. Jane Austen Multi-Genre Project. Dear Reader, Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. I chose to create my multigenre research project on Jane Austen because I find it fascinating that an author who was popular in her own time has managed to remain popular for over 200 years, despite all the changes in society and culture. On a more personal note, Jane Austen is my literary comfort food. When I read her novels, I know that I will meet interesting characters, I will laugh and perhaps even cry, and I will close the book after reading a happy ending. Before I began researching this topic, I knew a great deal about Jane Austen because I have been a fan of her novels for about thirteen years and I read several Jane Austen publications, mostly personal blogs created by other fans.
I was curious to learn why Jane Austen is so popular in our current culture. Through my research, I have learned that Austen's popularity has not always been what it is today. This research has changed how I view Jane Austen. Sincerely, Dana Huff. Multigenre - Tom Romano.
Writing to Inform. Writing to Describe. Writing to Explain. Writing style - using a voice. Expository Writing. Argument. Persuasive writing. Narrative Writing. Pixar’s Story Rules, Illustrated in Lego by ICanLegoThat. Last year, Pixar story artist Emma Coats (@lawnrocket) tweeted 22 rules of storytelling like “give your characters opinions” and “no work is ever wasted.” Alex Eylar, aka ICanLegoThat, has illustrated twelve of those rules with Legos. He gave us the chance to premiere them at Slacktory.