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Writing Workshop 1 (continued)
Role of the writer:
What perspective or persona will you take on to meet your goals for writing and to establish a connection with your readers?
Sample responses:
Activist
Athlete
Editor
Character in a Story Movie Star
Expert in a Particular Field
Radio Announcer Student
Poet
Historical Figure Ecologist Cartoonist Narrator
Audience: Who is your target audience?
What information might you include to capture their interest?
Sample responses:
Athletes
Church Community Neighborhood Community
Social Club Members Lawyers
Law Officers
Parents
Relatives
Teachers
School Peers Politicians Older/Younger Students
Myself
Topic: What is your purpose for writing this piece? Use strong verbs to describe your purpose.
Sample responses:
Personal narrative Letter
Memoir Monologue Editorial Interview
News Story Poem Photo Essay Essay
TV Script Journal/Diary Entry Speech
Political Cartoon
Format: What writing mode or genre would be best to represent this topic? Explain.
Sample responses:
Advise Complain Confide Convince Defend Define Evaluate Encourage Excuse Explain Honor Inquire Interpret Justify Question Satirize Teach Urge
2. Share the lists with a partner. As you listen to one another and discover similar ideas, add them to your initial list of potential writing topics.
3. Read through your list, and circle one topic from each category that is of particular interest to you and that you can write about fully. Select one circled topic to share with a partner. Use the following questions to guide your partner discussion:
• What happened?
• Who was involved, and how did the people involved respond?
• Why is this experience memorable?
• Who might benefit from your sharing this experience?
4. Explore your topic further using the RAFT strategy to explore the writer’s persona or role and purpose, to identify possible audiences, and to select an appropriate format or mode of writing to convey the purpose.
Introducing the Strategy: RAFT
Primarily used to generate text, the RAFT strategy helps writers plan for writing by focusing on the writer’s role, audience, format, and topic. RAFT can also be used to analyze a text by examining and identifying the role of the speaker, the intended audience, the format, and the topic of the text.
6 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 7
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