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Welcome to Community School Writing Across the Curriculum Online Site!
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing Across the Curriculum will prepare students in all academic writing endeavors. In this course students will write a variety of academic papers in several curricular areas. Building a strong foundation in sentence structures, paragraph structures, and writing patterns, this course guides students in the creation of a writing portfolio for their high school years. Students will write papers in Description, Setting and Action, Narration, Art Analysis, Textual Analysis, Compare and Contrast Analysis, , Argumentation Analysis, Speech Writing, Definition Analysis, and Mixed Pattern Analysis. This course is a graduation requirement designed for students to take during the 9th and 10th grade years and all students new to Community School, but is open to any Upper School student.
STUDENT ONLINE PORTFOLIO OF PAPERS:
1 Description of Place / Setting and Action
2 Narration
3 Art Illustration Paper (ART)
4 Poem close Reading Analysis Paper (ENGLISH)
5 Compare and Contrast / Close Reading Paper on two poems (ENGLISH)
6 Persuasive Argumentation Paper (HISTORY / ENGLISH)
7 Persuasive Speech (SPEECH): all courses
8 Definition Paper (Math, Art, Science, Speech, English, or History topic)
9 Mixed Pattern Paper (minimum of three patterns from Description, Narration, Close Read, Compare and Contrast, Process Analysis, Persuasive Argumentation, and Definition) in (Math, Art, Science, Speech, English, or History topic)
---Reflection on their writing
The nine portfolio papers can be one to two pages but will be required to meet the rubric requirements through revision and will be present in an online student writing portfolio to “Pass” Writing.
In addition, students must meet the major writing principle requirements on the Mid Term and Final Exams to “Pass” Writing.
** Top papers from each genre will selected and submitted to The Creel for publication in this annual publication of Student Writing.
*** Top students will be selected to volunteer in the library during their free periods to assist other Writing Across the Curriculum students with their papers and papers from other courses.
GRADING: Writing Across the Curriculum Course will be Pass / Fail with THE AVERAGE OF THE MIDTERM AND FINAL EXAMS and MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RUBRIC FOR THE SHORT PAPERS.
The focus is on developing mastery and eliminating obsessing over multiple revisions to earn the A.
Teachers agreed that if students do not meet these benchmarks, they will repeat Writing Across the Curriculum for another term.
New Writing Principles in 2017-18:
24 ---Develop the analytical voice
25 ---Spell these words correctly
26 ----Name that This
27---NEW TOPIC=NEW PARAGRAPH
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