{"id":1760,"date":"2012-03-01T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2012-03-02T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:02:11","slug":"writing-territories-to-launch-choice-in-writing-session-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2012\/03\/writing-territories-to-launch-choice-in-writing-session-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Territories to Launch Choice in Writing &#8211; Session 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything to write about&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0How many times have we all heard that?<\/p>\n<p>Using a structure like &#8220;Writing Territories&#8221; provides a powerful way to start scribbling their ideas. \u00a0These ideas can be listed or supported through collaborative conversation. \u00a0This mini lesson (* are specific and allow time for students to share their\u00a0samples to the class) provides ideas, places, deep memories to provide the \u201cjuice of life\u201d to our choices of stories.<\/p>\n<p>Another &#8216;mini lesson&#8217; is<strong> IMAGERY<\/strong> (eg. &#8216;Show not Tell&#8217; &#8211; uses detail, dialogue and appeals to the senses&#8230;.) \u00a0Mentor Texts can be used to support the writing process. They provide opportunity to see and play with models that can be applied in student&#8217;s own writing. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/03\/mentor-textlist_writing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a list of mentor texts to play with your classes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Homework:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2010\/12\/book_digitalwriting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-872\" title=\"book_Digital Writing\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2010\/12\/book_digitalwriting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Chapter 3 &#8211; Digital Writing Workshop<\/li>\n<li>How do you support writers to move beyond the superficial? \u00a0(Please leave a comment on the blog.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything to write about&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0How many times have we all heard that? Using a structure like &#8220;Writing Territories&#8221; provides a powerful way to start scribbling their ideas. \u00a0These ideas can be listed or supported through collaborative conversation. \u00a0This mini lesson (* are specific and allow time for students to share their\u00a0samples to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,20],"tags":[25,28,36,37,55,69,77,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}