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Storytelling Online: Mythology Across Time and Borders
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Online Writing
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STUDENT HANDOUTS
Character Response - A little worksheet that will allow students to work in pairs and respond to one another's characterization attempts.
Cultural Identity Circles - This is the starting worksheet for the writing project. It will help students to begin to see themselves as multidimensional beings and to inform their writers about themselves. Students identify five groups that they belong to and then discuss them with their writing partner or the class. They try to surprise them with at least one of the groups that they belong to.
Discovering Someone's Cultural Identity - This worksheet is a basic interview form to assist students in gaining information about the subject of their story. Each student is paired with another and works with them to answer the questions and gather information about them. The partner will be the subject of their story. This exercise is the foundation for teaching revising as opposed to editing. If the student is going to write about someone else, he or she will have to do research on that person. Then, the student will have to work with them after the draft is created to make sure that the facts are correct. The author, in turn, will have to work as a source for the person who is writing about them. No one can be an expert on someone else like the person themselves can, so students learn quickly to consult the authority regarding content. This is the point of revision, improving content and meaning. This exercise serves to distinguish it from editing, which is frequently confused by students with revising. It is obvious to students that the step of conferring with the source has nothing to do with the mechanics of spelling or grammar.
Edit Worksheet - This is a beginning sheet to get students started on editing mechanics of their own or a peer's work. It includes pointers to some of the basics where students frequently have problems. A good student exercise is to have this editing worksheet posted in large type in the classroom and to have the students add things to it as particular grammatical points or spelling errors come up over and over. This way, the students will make their own personalized class editing worksheet.
Revision Questions - This worksheet contains questions for pairs of students to use in responding to one another's work. The questions lead them through an evaluation of things such as theme, setting, and characterization, as well as meaning and ease of understanding the piece. It asks for specific advice from the reader for the writer. It also introduces the concept of being graded as a reader, reviser, and editor, as well as a writer, and that all of those activities are as important as one other because they are all active components of the writing process.
Self Comments - Give this sheet to students to organize their thoughts about their work before they meet with a revision partner or a response group. This way they will be able to give a clear idea of what they would like help with to their partner or group. Also, they will have a better idea of how much they can expect from the revising or responding assistants. Students sometimes get confused and think that the reviser or responder is supposed to completely rewrite the entire story for them. This way they will ask for help for the problems they have identified, instead.
Thinking-Writing Process GIF - This graphic is another version of the one contained in the Quote, Writing Process GIF given in the Background Materials section. It has the same Boyer quote and can be substituted for that sheet depending on the teacher's preference of graphical form.
Writing Process - This is a basic graph of the writing process with a very basic explanation of it. It is a tool to help begin to describe the recursive process of writing to students. One of the first handouts you should use with writing students.
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