Course Description

In Writer’s Workshop II, students practice writing skills through studying and understanding different types of Writing Genres. This course offers student’s extra practice and opportunities around writing they are encountering in their classes.


In order to express thoughts clearly and precisely to make writing come alive, the students will:

Use vivid verbs, specific nouns, and strong adjectives
Spot unnecessary adjectives and adverbs
Recognize and correct pronoun antecedent confusion
Use the active voice rather than the passive voice
Be careful of qualifiers
Correct issues with point of view
Show, not tell
Use sensory details
 

To write more interesting sentences that make writing flow in a logical manner, the students will:

Vary sentence types: simple, compound, and complex
Vary sentence beginnings
Use effective transition words and phrases
Use appositives to add meaning to sentences
 

To make writing more appealing to readers, students will use the following literary devices:

Similes
Metaphors
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Repetition
Personification
Anthropomorphism
Onomatopoeia