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Writing in English 10 this Year
Below you will find a chart of the different types of writing you will be doing this year. Click on the links to see more information about that particular writing assignment.

3-5 sources; may be closed source; may be paired with novel; may be I-Search || Writing a summary is an excellent way to **remember** and **understand** what you have read. If you think about writing as "thinking on paper" (don't remember where I first read that, but I read it somewhere), then it is a **tangible** representation of what is going through your mind as you read something. Follow these guidelines as you write your summary.
 * =__Writing Requirements__= ||
 * ===Personal Narrative=== ||
 * Approx. 350-500-750 words ||
 * Vivid, descriptive language; focused on a central idea/thread; relevant, telling, quality details; concrete examples and specific details; creates strong images; evokes feeling; gets to the “so what?” of the experience; has meaning to the reader as well as the writer ||
 * ===Compare/Contrast (subject writing; academic writing)=== || === === ||
 * 500 minimum; 4 paragraph minimum ||
 * Strong thesis statement; strong topic sentences; paper organized by ideas; authors and titles included in introduction; quotations incorporated as supporting details; MLA format for parenthetical documentation ||
 * ===Problem-Solution or Cause/Effect or Persuasive (subject writing; academic writing)=== ||  ||
 * 500 minimum; 5 paragraph minimum ||
 * Strong thesis statement; strong topic sentences; presents a compelling order and structure; demonstrates a purposeful, coherent, and effective arrangement of ideas and/or details; may include quotations incorporated as supporting details; may include research from outside sources to support thesis; MLA format for parenthetical documentation ||
 * ===[|Research Paper] (subject writing; academic writing)=== || === === ||
 * 1000-1500 words; 5 paragraph minimum
 * Strong thesis statement; strong topic sentences; presents a compelling order and structure; demonstrates a purposeful, coherent, and effective arrangement of ideas and/or details; must use research from outside sources to support thesis; MLA format for parenthetical documentation ||
 * ===The Summary ===

In this persuasive essay, you outline an opinion you have about an idea, event, or character in a piece of literature we have read this year. You support that opinion with explanation, excerpts from the text, examples from the text, and a pattern of discourse that enables you to convince your reader that you are right about what you say. || === === || Found poems, imitation poems, poems in response to fine art, narrative poems, poems in response to literature, etc. Poems should include literary devices, such as simile, metaphor, alliteration, assonance, allusion, rhythm, etc. Poems need not rhyme. || Daedalus prompts are available for reflection. These prompts are suggested to provide a framework for deeper reflection. ||
 * The Opinion Paper**
 * ===Poetry (creative writing)===
 * ===Journal Writing (personal writing; subject writing; reflective writing; academic writing)=== || === === ||
 * Varies according to purpose. ||
 * Shows evidence of thought; personal connections to life and literature; shows active reading skills (such as questioning, predicting, inferring, etc.). Can take many forms: double sided reading log; literature circles; KWLs; mind maps, etc. beginning of class “bell work” and end of class reflections. As a general expectation, in a ten minute freewrite, students should generate approximately 150-200 words. These short timed writings prepare students for longer writing on demand, such as ISTEP, the CRT and SAT. ||
 * ===Reflective essays (personal writing; reflective writing)=== || === === ||
 * Show evidence of metacognition; must examine and comment on own writing and portfolio as a whole; must show how their writing has changed and evolved over the course of the year; should quote their own writing.