Common Core Standards
Grade 7
Writing W.7.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
The only words that might be remotely confusing here are "range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences," and even that's not too bad. It just means to give students a whole bunch of different writing assignments. Based on the other Common Core Standards, they should be doing that already. No need to sweat it with this standard!
Example 1
Here's a fun lesson to use when students are reading a variety of British literature.
Have students create their own log during the readings of A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. They should adopt the point of view of a character from the reading. This will encourage understanding of character and point of view as well as character traits and creation.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Sliding Through History
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Fence-Painting in Other Contexts
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Childhood Treasures
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- The Basics of Social Media: Communicating with One to One Million People: Blogs and Instant Messaging
- Teaching Ella Enchanted: TWIST-ed Storytelling
- Teaching Freak the Mighty: Memories Real and Imagined
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Moon Over Manifest: Ode to a Static or Dynamic Character
- Teaching Number the Stars: Good to See You Again…
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Not Another Janice Avery!
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- Internet Safety and Ethics: The Golden Rule Goes Online: Preventing and Stopping Cyberbullying
- Internet Safety and Ethics: Oh No, You Didn't!: Internet Dangers and Strategies for Staying Safe
- Teaching Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.: Different Strokes for Different Folks
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Using Copyrighted, Creative Commons, and Public Domain Materials: Mixing It Up: Using and Modifying Creative Materials
- Teaching Ella Enchanted: Orphan vs. Orphan
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Facebook or Twitter Plot Summary
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Too Many Narrators? What's Your Point of View?
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files