Independent Writing

OBJECTIVE
Students will begin their independent writing routine.

QUICK REVIEW BEFORE YOU WRITE
Review your writing ideas from previous lessons.
Ask yourself if you’d like to use any of these ideas or use the process to create new ones.
Questions before you start?

REMEMBER TO....
Good writers write about familiar experiences and use them to write fiction (The Pigman) or autobiographical pieces (“The Jacket”).
Use details and descriptive language.
Use details and descriptive language.
Use details and descriptive language.

WRITE NOW!

• If you have a writing topic, start now.
• If you do not have a writing topic:
• Look over your past entries in Sentence Explorations and Writing Explorations.
• Take a deep breath.
• Try to think of a topic one more time.
• Okay, Okay. Raise your hand.