1. My hypothetical class is a creative writing class for high school seniors (17-18 years old) and there are fourteen students in the class. The class has a good grasp on writing poetry, minimal experience writing non-fiction and fiction stories with and without dialogue, and are extremely comfortable sharing their pieces with me (the teacher) and their classmates. They do not however, have experience with merging fiction and non-fiction, so that is a major accomplishment goal with this piece. Right now it is April (mostly through the school year), so the students are familiar with each other and with me. While they write personal pieces, they have not written real autobiographies, so that is another goal with this project.
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I chose this assignment because as a high school senior beginning a new chapter of life (college, military, work world) I believe it is important for the students to not only think about events that have helped form them into the people they are, but what events they hope to happen in future years. In a writing aspect, I chose this assignment to help the students improve their ability to write fictional and non-fictional stories; since they have had minimal experience doing this, I hope to make them more confident and comfortable with writing these types of stories. The peer reviews are included because of the comfort the students feel with one another, and I feel as though hearing how their classmate’s, who they know and respect, opinions, they will look forward to those days in class, which will encourage them to have things in on due dates. I chose to have them write an autobiography between the six events because I feel as though it gives the students freedom to be creative and create their own life story. The assignment itself is a sequence, since they will write about six events and then combine them into the autobiography. To receive full credit, they will need to write about and include the six events in the autobiography, making each part of the sequence important.
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#1. I want students to be able to improve on both their fiction and non-fiction writing.
#2. I want students to be able to have a grasp on how to write an autobiography.
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I chose the final paper as the most important aspect of this project (20 points) because it is the final product and with all the work that has gone into prewriting it (all the individual events), and the peer and teacher conferences, it should be extremely well written with a lot of thought put into it. Within this final paper, I chose that having three fictional and three non-fictional pieces is also key (10 points) because where the two different individual events are worth different amounts of points, each student is expected to put the same amount of thought into three different true events that have happened to them, and three fictional events, which requires extreme imagination and thought. The non-fiction events (10 points) are worth more than the fiction events (5 points) because while the fiction events require creativity, the non-fiction
2. The assignment …show more content…
I chose this assignment because as a high school senior beginning a new chapter of life (college, military, work world) I believe it is important for the students to not only think about events that have helped form them into the people they are, but what events they hope to happen in future years. In a writing aspect, I chose this assignment to help the students improve their ability to write fictional and non-fictional stories; since they have had minimal experience doing this, I hope to make them more confident and comfortable with writing these types of stories. The peer reviews are included because of the comfort the students feel with one another, and I feel as though hearing how their classmate’s, who they know and respect, opinions, they will look forward to those days in class, which will encourage them to have things in on due dates. I chose to have them write an autobiography between the six events because I feel as though it gives the students freedom to be creative and create their own life story. The assignment itself is a sequence, since they will write about six events and then combine them into the autobiography. To receive full credit, they will need to write about and include the six events in the autobiography, making each part of the sequence important.
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#1. I want students to be able to improve on both their fiction and non-fiction writing.
#2. I want students to be able to have a grasp on how to write an autobiography.
#3. I want students to learn …show more content…
I chose the final paper as the most important aspect of this project (20 points) because it is the final product and with all the work that has gone into prewriting it (all the individual events), and the peer and teacher conferences, it should be extremely well written with a lot of thought put into it. Within this final paper, I chose that having three fictional and three non-fictional pieces is also key (10 points) because where the two different individual events are worth different amounts of points, each student is expected to put the same amount of thought into three different true events that have happened to them, and three fictional events, which requires extreme imagination and thought. The non-fiction events (10 points) are worth more than the fiction events (5 points) because while the fiction events require creativity, the non-fiction