Teaching+Writing

**Welcome six graders to your writing class!**



**Start off with two reactions:** 


 * Today's objective is: **
 * Students will be able to analyze; think before they write.
 * Students will be able to recognize and classify the [|writing process.]
 * Students will be able to identify the [|elements of a short story.]
 * Students will be able to practice on descriptive and creative writing.

**Types of activities: **

 * =====First, each student will get a turn to write one sentence after another, continuing the sequence to make a classroom story. I will start off with a paragraph and the person who goes next will continue the story by adding a sentence and then goes another person goes, and so on...[[image:Cardiff_Castle_Wales_United_Kingdom.jpg width="160" height="119" align="right" link="The Story"]] =====
 * =====Second, you will design a new room for the Chocolate Factory, from the film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" =====


 * First off lets make a list of the rooms the film had, then make your room, but be very [|descriptive!]

Question: What might have happened if any of the other children had gotten the factory?
 * **It has to be at __least__ two or three paragraphs long, creative and descriptive. **
 * **Also don't forget to follow the steps of the writing process. **