FrontPage
Compositional Risks
Dialogue
Figurative Language
Sensory Details
Word Choice
Show-Don't-Tell
Words to use instead of "said"
http://www.gtps.k12.nj.us/curric/writing/index_files/page0004.htm - Compositional Risk
http://www.holmdel.k12.nj.us/schools/satz/eng_dept/njask/compositional_risk_matrix.htm - Compositional Risk Matrix
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help/communication_rhetorical_devices_language_arts_eighth_8th_grade.htm - Rhetorical Questions
http://www.jefftwp.org/middleschool/CoreTeams/7th/LA/compositional%20risks.pdf - Compositional Risk - Defined & Examples
http://quizlet.com/8939307/compositional-risks-flash-cards/ - Compositional Risk - Quizlet
http://www.summit.k12.nj.us/~gbuonpane/FOV2-00101139/FOV2-0010113A/Compositional%20Risks.pdf?Plugin=Block - Compositional Risk Examples
http://www.holmdel.k12.nj.us/schools/satz/eng_dept/njask/compositional_risk_matrix.htm - NJASK Compositional Risk
https://www.measinc.com/nj/Downloads/NJASK/Writers_Checklist_2008.pdf - Writer's Checklist
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuamFza3dyaXRpbmdwcmVwNjc4fGd4OjE2ZjFkMWNlM2Y4NWNmYTQ - Thesis Statement
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuamFza3dyaXRpbmdwcmVwNjc4fGd4OjNiMTBhZWY2MDE5NWQ1Mzk - Analyzing the Opposition
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuamFza3dyaXRpbmdwcmVwNjc4fGd4OjZmNmQ0YjhjMWU3YWY3MzA - - Analyzing the Opposition
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuamFza3dyaXRpbmdwcmVwNjc4fGd4OjM0NjMwMGRkYTcxOWFmM2Y - Graphic Organizer to Plan Your Persuasive Writing
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuamFza3dyaXRpbmdwcmVwNjc4fGd4OjIxM2RmZDU1Zjg4YmRmNmQ - Persuasive Graphic Organizer
Open-Ended
https://sites.google.com/site/njaskwritingprep678/sentence-starters - Sentence Starters
Compositional Risks for SPECULATIVE writing
In your narrative, you should include such compositional risks as:
1. 1st person point of view – the narrator participates in the action of the story
2. Flashbacks – an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative
3. Figurative Language – speech or writing that departs from factual meaning in order to achieve a special effect
- · Alliteration – repetition of consonant sounds
- · Cliché – an overused expression or saying
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- · Idiom – colorful language
- · Metaphor – comparison NOT using like or as
Example: The world is a vampire.
- · Simile – comparison using like or as
Example: John snores like a bear.
- · Personification – giving human qualities to something non-human
Example: The storm raged angrily through Miami.
4. Dialogue – Two people having a conversation
5. Sophisticated vocabulary – vocab. that is not commonly used, enhanced vocab.
- · Example: Instead of The old man walked along the road, how about The old man hobbled along the gravel?
6. Interesting setting – Where and when the story takes place; think “outside the box.” USE THE 5 SENSES WHEN DESCRIBING…. SHOW, DON’T TELL.
7. Rhetorical question – a question you ask, not to gain an answer, but just to give more emphasis to the point you’re trying to make
- · Example: See what friendship can do?
Anecdotes
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/extras/writingskillsanecdotes.htm - Anecdotes in Writing
http://www.gtps.k12.nj.us/curric/writing/index_files/page0004.htm - Compositional Risk
http://www.summit.k12.nj.us/~gbuonpane/FOV2-00101139/FOV2-0010113A/Compositional%20Risks.pdf?Plugin=Block - Compositional Risk
Show don't Tell
“Show Don’t Tell”
Telling Writing
- Bores the reader by telling, advising, and judging.
- Tells the reader what to think or how to feel.
- Uses dull words such as bad, good, fun, cool, exciting.
- Tells the events as a list.
Showing Writing
- Engages the reader through description of actions, movements, and appearances.
- Allows the reader to make his or her own conclusions about events in the story.
- Uses active words, adjectives, expressions, and adverbs.
- Uses sensory words that describe sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
- Uses description and dialogue to guide the story.
Setting
Telling
Example: The man was bored. It was raining. It rained yesterday and he wanted to go outside.
Showing
Example: “Lost in his thoughts, he stared out the window at the gray clouds hanging low over the dark water of the bay. It looked like it would rain again today.”
(Disclosure by Michael Crichton)
Character Description
Telling
Kevin felt sick. He had a fever and couldn’t sleep.
Showing
“Some hours later, after midnight, Kevin Bourque wakes sweaty in his bed as the snow ticks against the window of his room. He has a fever, one that will last as long as this three-day storm, and he’s lightheaded, can’t make sense of the cracking, splitting sound of the wind through the woods behind the house.”
(“The Blizzard of 1959,” Graham Hewson. The Sun. June 2002.)
Plot
Telling
I drew a picture of a boat and the man liked it. He called for his family to see it and they liked it too.
Showing
“He squatted down beside me and …asked me what I was doing. I showed him the drawing, and his face lit up. “Just like it! Just like the boat!” He cupped his hands to his mouth and yelled something in the direction of the junk, and right away a family appeared on deck. “Let’s show it to them!” he said, and dragged me down to the water.”
(Iron & Silk, by Mark Salzman.)
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