The question: "When is a story good" received many answers from the different groups. Now I am asking the groups to read and consider all student input and create a final list that can be adopted by the entire class. For that purpose, I have posted a document that all students can write into and edit. It is found: Here.
--The unsorted results from the groups are:
--Good choice of words but has to make sense
--Transition from one point to another
-- Introduction: Needs to catch your attention and make you want to keep reading to find out what happens.
--Mystery: don't make the topic be extremely obvious. allow the reader to actually think about it and try to figure things out for themselves.
--Clear and intresting ending
--Grammar and Structure
--Imagination: Being creative makes it more interesting to read, and more engaging.
--Personalized stories with your own words and ideas are more meaningful and interesting
--Creative: Should be something new that makes story more interested and different
--Creative body could make readers not loose their interests in your story
--Be logical: a story should make sense
--Has a good hook in the beginning
--Conclusion that summarizes main points of the story
-- When it is made for the reader to understand. Target audience.
--Using good resources to find legit information.
--Put facts from least to most important.
--Attractive clues that makes you want to read more.
--Pace: How fast the story moves shouldn't be to fast or to slow
--Emotion: The ability to connect to the emotions of what is happening
Each student is asked to now prioritize these ideas from 1 - 20 and put their list onto their blog. How can you indicate in your blog posting that this is a class list and not your own?
Today in class, go to this document to find group assignments.
The groups need to create posts to explain their grammar topic, and report back to the entire class.
Homework for next week, Feb 1: each student completes all Hacker topics under "clear sentences" and creates a blog "Hacker Review of <Clear Sentences>" that shows: the topics reviewed, a statement whether this is valuable to you, or not, and why. For example:
Topic 1 active/passive This was not helpful to me because I understand the difference already.
Topic 2 active vs be-verbs: This helped me a lot because I tend to use many be-verbs,
etc.
E-ex 8-1 Active vs. passive verbs
E-ex 8-2 Active vs. be verbs
E-ex 8-3 Active verbs (edit and compare)
E-ex 9-1 Parallelism
E-ex 9-2 Parallelism
E-ex 9-3 Parallelism (edit and compare)
E-ex 10-1 Needed words
E-ex 10-2 Needed words (edit and compare)
E-ex 11-1 Mixed constructions
E-ex 11-2 Mixed constructions (edit and compare)
E-ex 12-1 Misplaced modifiers
E-ex 12-2 Misplaced modifiers (edit and compare)
E-ex 12-3 Dangling modifiers
E-ex 12-4 Dangling modifiers (edit and compare)
E-ex 13-1 Shifts: person and number
E-ex 13-2 Shifts: tense
E-ex 13-3 Shifts
E-ex 13-4 Shifts (edit and compare)
E-ex 14-1 Choppy sentences
E-ex 14-2 Choppy sentences (edit and compare)
E-ex 14-3 Subordination
Furthermore, go back in this post and prioritize the 20 parameters of "Good writing" from most to least important to you. Put it in a post.
Furthermore, go back in this post and prioritize the 20 parameters of "Good writing" from most to least important to you. Put it in a post.
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