Welcome to Writing Class!

Mrs. Hickner-Johnson7 Gold

Units of Study 1st Quarter

6 Traits of Writing

Writing Preassessment

Interview/Journalism

Journalism/Interview Unit

Units of Study 2nd Quarter

Proper Grammar Usage Assessment

Final Conventions Writing Piece

Sentence Fluency Assessment

Eight Parts of Speech

Nouns

Verbs

Pronouns

Adjectives

Adverbs

Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Interjections

Conjunctions

3rd Quarter Units of StudySpeech Unit

How-to

Descriptive

Persuasive *District Common Assessment*

Research Social Studies Project (Cause and Effect Essay)

MLA in-text citations and Works Cited Page

Thesis Statement

Compare/contrast usage

Analyzing informational texts

Note-taking strategies

Plagiarism laws

Drafting process

Revising Process

4th Quarter Units of Study

Bronx Masquerade

Prose and Poetry Writing

Poetic Terms

Imagery

Tone

Figurative Language

Sound Devices

Symbolism

55-fiction *District Common Assessment*

Work Expectations

Writing assignments will be posted on the classroom calendar.

Students will be required to use Google Docs to write their papers – every student has a school Google account.

Students will be required to turn-in three creative writing pieces a quarter. These will come from their Wednesday Writing Workshop Notebook.