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Ideas for Multi-Genre Projects in Novel Study
Ideas for Multi-Genre Projects in Novel Study

Looking at these documents, you may think I am a little bit crazy. I am okay with that. However, I am excited to have a go at this project with my third hour group. I am constantly evaluating how I end a novel unit, and I enjoy reflecting on the type of paper writing I express as important to my students. When my grade-level colleague and I attended MCTE in October and listened to Kelly Gallagher, we got excited about the idea of a multi-genre project with our sixth graders. We teach a variety of paper genres throughout the school year, including the five-paragraph essay, but we wanted students to get a chance to be innovative and inquisitive about the world around them.

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The Teaching of Writing, Teaching, The Teaching of ReadingStephanie Hamptonargumentative, novel unit, informational, narrative, narrative writing, end of unit, multi-genre, novelComment
Essay Series Part 5: Giving Feedback
Essay Series Part 5: Giving Feedback

In part 5 of the Compare/Contrast Essay Series, we explore the beauty of rough draft feedback.

Time for the handing back of rough drafts! Students have put together their introduction rough drafts, body paragraph rough drafts, and conclusion rough drafts to form a first draft of their Compare/Contrast Essay about the topic:

Is our modern American society more similar to or different from the Uglies Dystopian Society/World?

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The Teaching of Writing, TeachingStephanie Hamptoncompare and contrast, essay, academic essay, informationalComment
Essay Series Part 3 and 4: Conclusion Workshop and Using Padlet to Teach Students Peer Review
Essay Series Part 3 and 4: Conclusion Workshop and Using Padlet to Teach Students Peer Review

My love-hate relationship with technology in the classroom continues as I reflect on the use of Padlet for conducting a peer review. I like visual feedback. I like looking at how different people respond to writing, and I like seeing how different teachers use feedback to help their writers improve. Students created their first rough draft of their Dystopian Compare/Contrast Essays for a peer review after they participated in a Conclusion Workshop.

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The Teaching of Writing, TeachingStephanie Hamptonpadlet, compare and contrast, peer review, essay, academic essay, informationalComment
Essay Series Part 2: Review Your Introduction and Start Your Body Paragraphs!
Essay Series Part 2: Review Your Introduction and Start Your Body Paragraphs!

Welcome to the second part of the series The Essential Guide to a Compare and Contrast Essay! Today, Advanced English 6 and I went through our adv-compare-contrast-essay-2017 packets and checked off what we had accomplished so far.

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The Teaching of Writing, TeachingStephanie Hamptoncompare and contrast, contrast, Academic Writing, compare, essay, five paragraph essay, academic essay, informationalComment
The Essential Guide to a Compare and Contrast Essay: Introduction to the Series (Topic and Claim)
The Essential Guide to a Compare and Contrast Essay: Introduction to the Series (Topic and Claim)

The assignment? A compare and contrast essay. The goal? Survive. While this seems dramatic sometimes, most of my students are really excited about their creative writing assignments that involve creating their own dystopian worlds. However, many are not as excited as the complementary assignment of a compare and contrast essay with comparing our modern American Society with the Uglies Dystopian Society. I have a secret...I may be more excited about the academic formal paper (and you know I love creative writing). This will be the introduction to a five-part series about how to craft a Compare and Contrast essay with a focalized topic.

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The Teaching of Writing, TeachingStephanie Hamptonessay, compare, contrast, Academic Writing, activism, 2017, academic essay, informationalComment