IEW U.S. History - Week One

Welcome to the writing portion of Essentials!

How many of you have been told to sit down and write something out of your head, but had no idea what to write?

How many of you have been told to write a book report, but weren’t sure how to summarize?

How many of you were assigned a research report, but the material seemed overwhelming?

This program does an amazing job of explaining how to do each of those assignments – without the headaches.

It will give you a step-by-step plan of how to write using keyword outlines, which should simplify the process for you.

Just like EEL, it may seem overwhelming at first.

In this course, you will learn to write with both structure and style.

Structure – the manner in which anything is built

House – architect make plans

Without plans, builder might put sink in LR or stairs in bathroom

Paper – similar

If we write without planning, our thoughts will not be arranged in a logical way

Wouldn’t communicate thoughts effectively

You will draw plans before you write

These will be outlines

Each outline will follow a particular model for each type of composition

Style – the way in which something is expressed

He hit the ball!

The determined little leaguer firmly smacked the spinning baseball with all his might!

Spoken language is more casual than written language.

With written language, you must help your readers see, hear, feel and experience what you are writing about.

While going through this book, you need to choose the appropriate level for your child.

Level A – 3rd-5^th grade

Level B – 6^th + grade

This is a general guideline. You know what is best for your child

Bring to each class:

Student Book

Teacher’s Book

Student Resource Notebook

Substitute Texts for Level A students

Because this year is about American History, you should save your final drafts to be bound in your own personal book at the end of the year. For this reason, you should make your final drafts as neat as possible and illustrate as much as you can.

P. 9 – student

P. 13 – teacher

P. 5 – SRN

This lesson – introduce some elements of style – p. 5 Dress ups – top

Dress ups - special words or phrases you will learn to add to your writing.

1^st – quality adjective

Adjectives – words that modify nouns or pronouns by describing, qualifying or limiting.

Answers questions – What kind? How many? Which? Whose?

This lesson – practice adding quality adjectives to your writing.

The trees were big and pretty.

Big and pretty are boring and overused words. They are SO boring that we are going to ban them from your writing.

p. 6 – list of banned words – try to memorize

p.29-34 substitutes

Any suggestions for quality adjectives?

Gigantic Breathtaking

Enormous Brilliant

Colossal Alluring

Our assignment today – to write a poem about America that is filled with quality adjectives.

Ex. – 185 (read)

Brainstorm 2-3 adjectives for each word on p. 10 – refer to 29-34

Alliteration – a decoration , should be used sparingly – ex from p. 185

Assignment:

Use the template on p. 11 to write your own poem.

This will be the cover of your book:

Make the title very large and bold – it will be the title of your book.

Illustrate your final copy, or copy it onto specialty paper.

Include everything on the checklist.

Copy the checklist and attach it to the back of your final draft.

Also, learn vocab words from back of book.

Cut out that page and hole-punch it onto a metal book ring.