Think about what you would spend more time crafting: a paragraph for your teacher on a topic she has assigned, or a note to friend about the boy you have a crush on? Authentic audience and topic choice make a tremendous difference to students when they write. Because of the motivating effect of finding an authentic audience, 8th grade Language Arts students have been working on building a personal blog.
Topics have run the gamut from Monticello football game recaps to the differences between glitz and natural pageants. Some of the best entries have been reviews of video games, droll accounts of boring weekends, and recaps and reactions to television shows. We've even had an entry about the most serious of topics: sushi! As the year goes on, we hope to find our voice as writers and take care in crafting the best entries we can, both in terms of expression and conventions.
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