ENGLISH 9

A.

1.) Bullying article from last weekend's Globe and Mail as an example of quality personal responses.  What made them good?  What didn't work?

B.

1.) Your job for today and tomorrow will be to pick one personal response draft (we've now written five) and take it to a "published" state.  Use the Six Traits of Writing and the formal Writing Process to help produce quality work.

Hand in (stapled in this order):

• Published work
• Self-assessment of published work
• Revision copy of your work
• Peer assessment of draft
• Draft with self-assessment (should have this done already) 

2.) Six Traits of Writing - an overview.
-Ideas
-Organization
-Voice
-Word Choice
-Sentence Fluency
-Conventions

3.) The Writing Process - an overview.
-Pre-writing
-Drafting
-Sharing
-Revising
-Editing
-Publishing
-Assessing