BYOR
Identify a feature of FORM that you need to include in your response:
You recently joined an after-school club, which is now looking for more new members. You have offered to give a short speech to your graduation class, persuading people to join.
Write the text for your speech, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of developing skills and interests, and create a sense of enthusiasm for this club.
- Continuous prose
-Greeting WITHIN prose
Name the figurative device that is used:
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole
Identify the type of sentence that is used:
The sun is shining.
Declarative
Identify the context:
You recently joined an after-school club, which is now looking for more new members. You have offered to give a short speech to your graduation class, persuading people to join.
Write the text for your speech, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of developing skills and interests, and create a sense of enthusiasm for this club.
You recently joined an after-school club, which is now looking for more new members.
- Story writing, usually fictional
- Purpose is to entertain/Share an Experience
- Heavily connotative to create tone
- Imagery is very important, especially to build a setting
- Structure is typically chronological, so expect a change in tone or style
Narrative Writing
Identify a feature of FORM that you need to include in your response:
When you were downtown recently, you were able to help someone you didn't know, who was in a difficult situation. You decide to write about the experience in your diary.
Write the text for your diary entry, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of your help and the impact of your actions.
- Date
- Greeting/ "Dear Diary"
Name the figurative device that is used:
Because I could not stop for death,
He kindly stopped for me.
Personification
Identify the type of sentence that is used:
Did John buy a present for the birthday party?
Interrogative
Identify the context:
When you were downtown recently, you were able to help someone you didn't know, who was in a difficult situation. You decide to write about the experience in your diary.
Write the text for your diary entry, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of your help and the impact of your actions.
- When you were downtown recently, you were able to help someone you didn't know, who was in a difficult situation.
- Often narrative in nature, but focused to describe a person, place, or thing in extreme detail
- Purpose is to entertain/Share an Experience
- Heavily connotative to create tone
- Imagery is very important, especially to build a setting
- Structure is typically chronological, so expect a change in tone or style
Descriptive Writing
Identify the STRUCTURE that you need to use for your response:
You recently joined an after-school club, which is now looking for more new members. You have offered to give a short speech to your graduation class, persuading people to join.
Write the text for your speech, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of developing skills and interests, and create a sense of enthusiasm for this club.
- Order of Importance
- Problem/solution
- Topical
Name the figurative device that is used:
Every morning, we make our bed, eat breakfast, and feed the dog.
Parallel structure
Identify the type of sentence that is used:
You're really funny!
Exclamatory
Identify the audience:
You recently joined an after-school club, which is now looking for more new members. You have offered to give a short speech to your graduation class, persuading people to join.
Write the text for your speech, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of developing skills and interests, and create a sense of enthusiasm for this club.
Your graduation class
- An account of someone's life written by someone else
- Purpose is to inform/share an experience
- Jargon/domain vocabulary depending on topic
- Might use headings
- Common use of facts due to informative nature
- Structure is typically chronological
Biographies
Identify the STRUCTURE that you need to use for your response:
When you were downtown recently, you were able to help someone you didn't know, who was in a difficult situation. You decide to write about the experience in your diary.
Write the text for your diary entry, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of your help and the impact of your actions.
- Chronological
Name the figurative device that is used:
Are you kidding me?
Why bother?
Rhetorical question
Identify the type of sentence that is used:
If the participant requests to withdraw from the study, provide them with the necessary information.
Imperative
Identify the purpose:
You recently joined an after-school club, which is now looking for more new members. You have offered to give a short speech to your graduation class, persuading people to join.
Write the text for your speech, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of developing skills and interests, and create a sense of enthusiasm for this club.
Persuade people to join AND create a sense of enthusiasm
- Nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories
- Purpose is to share an experience
- Very likely to use multiple senses to bring audience into the experience and reflect 1st person perspective
- Figurative language is common. Look for a lot of comparisons
- Structure is almost always chronological
Memoir/Personal Narrative/Autobiography
Identify THREE features of FORM that you need to include in your response:
You have just read a newspaper article which said that it would be better if everyone in the world spoke the same language. You disagree, and decide to write an email to the editor of the newspaper about this.
Write the text for your email, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, give reasons to support your opinion.
- To:/From:
- Email address
- Subject
- Greeting/Closure
- Continuous prose
Name the figurative device that is used:
Boom! Clang! Pow!
Onomatopoeia
Identify the type of sentence that is used:
Whenever he was sad, Lance called his mother.
Complex sentence
Identify the audience:
When you were downtown recently, you were able to help someone you didn't know, who was in a difficult situation. You decide to write about the experience in your diary.
Write the text for your diary entry, using no more than 400 words. In your writing, focus on the importance of your help and the impact of your actions.
- Yourself
- Spoken word about a given topic. These can be scripted or unscripted involving one or more people.
- General purpose varies
- Pronouns can be very significant, especially if they choose to connect to the audience (we, our, etc.)
- Sensory imagery is not common
- Structure can vary. Order of importance or problem/solution can add to persuasive element, but a clear topical structure can help make points memorable.
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