Happy Holidays

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Happy Holidays

Description:

After using Chris Van Allsburg's "The Polar Express" as a writing prompt, students create a holiday story while working in cooperative learning groups.

Education Levels:

6, 7, 8

Subject:

Writing (composition), Literature

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Creative writing, Literary plot, Trains, Literary themes, Holidays, Christmas, Van Allsburg, Chris, Chanukah, Illustrations, Literary characters, Santa Claus

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Farica King

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/lessons/LA.asp

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Language Arts, English

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student drafts and revises writing that

is focused, purposeful, and reflects insight into the writing situation;
conveys a sense of completeness and wholeness with adherence to the main idea;
has an organizational pattern that provides for a logical progression of ideas;
has support that is substantial, specific, relevant, concrete, and/or illustrative;
demonstrates a commitment to and an involvement with the subject;
has clarity in presentation of ideas;
uses creative writing strategies appropriate to the purpose of the paper;
demonstrates a command of language (word choice) with freshness of expression;
has varied sentence structure and sentences that are complete except when fragments are used purposefully;
and has few, if any, convention errors in mechanics, usage, and punctuation.

5. uses an effective organizational pattern and substantial support to achieve a sense of completeness or wholeness (for example, considering audience, sequencing events, choosing effective words; using specific details to clarify meaning)

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student produces final documents that have been edited for

correct spelling;
correct punctuation, including commas, colons, and semicolons;
correct capitalization;
effective sentence structure;
correct common usage, including subject/verb agreement, common noun/pronoun agreement, common possessive forms, and with a variety of sentence structure, including parallel structure;
and correct formatting.

3. uses conventions of capitalization (including but not limited to the names of organizations, nationalities, races, languages, religions)

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student produces final documents that have been edited for

correct spelling;
correct punctuation, including commas, colons, and semicolons;
correct capitalization;
effective sentence structure;
correct common usage, including subject/verb agreement, common noun/pronoun agreement, common possessive forms, and with a variety of sentence structure, including parallel structure;
and correct formatting.

2. uses conventions of punctuation (including but not limited to commas, colons, semicolon, quotation marks, apostrophes)

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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