Contemporary Books
The Fault in Our Stars launched this author into fame.
Who is John Greene?
This writer's tool is essential for housing experimental work, playfulness, and risk-taking.
What is the writer's notebook?
Romeo and Juliet is attributed to which author/playwright?
Who is Shakespeare?
This type of writing is done with a pencil or pen or marker or chalk.
What is writing by hand?
This is the part of speech that is the action in a sentence.
What is a verb?
Angie Thomas wrote this novel-turned-film about Starr Carter who straddles two very different worlds as a black girl growing up in America.
What is The Hate U Give?
These tools help make writing by hand fun, personal, and easier on the bones and muscles.
What are your favorite pens?
Harper Lee wrote about the poor race relations in Alabama (Southern U.S.) during the early 1900's in this famous book in which no birds die.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
The first draft of an essay that will be worked on for awhile is often referred to as this.
What is a sh*t*y first draft or rough draft?
Beauty, pillow, and kitten are all what part of speech?
What are nouns?
Butter is a young adult novel that explores this heartbreaking topic.
What is suicide (or bullying/shaming)?
Writing daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly is your ticket to improving your craft?
What is daily?
Fahrenheit 451 is amongst this author's most noteworthy novels, though his short stories are even better, in my opinion.
Your friend reads your story but doesn't "get it" because it is all ideas and no pictures form in his head. A revision strategy you could use is this.
What is adding more imagery?
The punctuation in the middle of the following sentence helps it avoid being a run-on.
Hemingway seeks to immerse us in his pain; he is always successful.What is a semicolon?
This novelist, known mostly for the genre of horror, is the author with the most books made into movies.
Who is Stephen King?
Doing THIS part of the writing process will ensure you have high stakes, therefore the best writing you can produce for the task.
What is sharing your work with others/publishing?
Sula, Beloved, and Tar Baby are just a few of this Nobel Prize winning author's canon--she also just died this month at age 88.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Your teacher reads your essay and puts question marks and "huh?" throughout your masterpiece. She specifically asks you to organize your thoughts more. Try this revision strategy to improve.
What is go back and outline your ideas and evidence OR paragraph more logically OR slow down the writing and explain with more clarity and specifics.
In the following sentence, the "for" after the comma serves as what part of speech?
I must get to the museum soon, for I can't miss the last day of the evolution exhibit.
What is a conjunction?
This popular series, which most of you have probably read, is not a favorite of Ms. Anderson's--in fact, she only made it to book 3.
What is Harry Potter?
The following are all part of this step in the writing process: rearranging sections, adding, deleting, re-wording, changing punctuation.
What is revision?
George Orwell made the idea of "big brother" famous in this novel that explores what Orwell predicted the future to be like.
What is 1984?
You are writing a well-developed essay and keep using the same words over and over. Try this to vary and be more specific with your word choice.
What is use a thesaurus?
In the following sentence, the subject is ______.
Go home!
What is you (or the understood "you")?