Hartford's+Writing


 * Course Description:**

Communication Arts 7 is taught as an integrated class in some buildings, but in other buildings the reading and writing components are addressed in different classes. Regardless of the situation, reader’s and writer’s workshop are used to deliver the district curriculum. At Bode, we teach them separately in order to give students a greater opportunity to develop those individual skills.

The writer’s workshop focuses primarily on student development of writing skills and strategies with explicit instruction to enhance students’ use of the writing process, writing craft focusing on the six traits of writing, and various forms and types of writing. The course provides students daily opportunities to practice applying those writing skills/strategies in their own writing within the writer’s workshop framework.

Also embedded within the course are explicit instruction and opportunities for students to strengthen their skills and strategies in listening, speaking, inquiry, and media literacy.

1.8 Compose legible text with an effective beginning, middle, and end, a logical order, and appropriate paragraphing. 1.9 Use capitalization, commas and quotation marks within dialogue.
 * __Main Objectives for 1st Quarter__**

__**Main Objectives for 2nd Quarter**__ 2.5 Use text to show awareness of audience choosing a form appropriate to topic and specific audience. 2.6 Compose text with strong, controlling ideas and relevant, specific details. 2.7 Compose text with a variety of sentence structures, including complex sentences and use semi-colon in compound sentences. 2.9 Use correct agreement of pronoun and antecedent, and consistent verb tense in written text.

__**Main Objectives for 3rd Quarter**__ 3.7 Compose text using precise and vivid language and writing techniques such as figurative language, sensory detail, and purposeful dialogue as well as cohesive devices, especially transitions. 3.8 Follow a writing process to edit for conventions.

__**Main Objectives for 4th Quarter**__ 4.5 Locate and use multiple resources to fulfill a research plan.