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Word Bank for Short Stories
Students may want to keep a written log or a writing folder for this section of the course. You may add words to this list to assist you in your writing or words that you have used in your short stories.
acceptance character anonymous caricature
sympathetic conspicuous identify forebode
esteem perception reverie uneasiness
wholehearted metallic inkling mirage
Criteria for Language Arts
It is essential that children learn the basics of writing in different styles to accomplish a goal depending upon the audiences.
Students should learn to:
- read, write, speak, listen, and view to construct meaning of visual, oral, and written texts
- read with understanding and respond thoughtfully to a variety of texts
- write and speak English/Arabic proficiently to communicate ideas clearly
- create works using the language arts in visual, oral and written texts
- choose and apply strategies that enhance the fluent and proficient use of language arts
- understand and appreciate texts from many historical periods, scholars, and Islamic cultural backgrounds
- employ language arts for a lifelong learning goal for work and enjoyment
Students should display:
- effort put into the project
- mastery of the material
- the finished projects
- ability to apply and translate what has been learned
- progress towards academic goals
Evaluation Methods for THM:
- content assessments
- development
- organization
- mechanics (grammar, punctuation, and usage)
- Journals
- reading list
The Purpose for reading:
- Reading for the literary experience
- Reading to be informed about a subject
- Reading to perform a task
Students are expected to:
- write personal reflections and give responses to some assigned texts,
- Forming an initial understanding of what is being presented to them whether it be written or verbal content
- Learning to develop and interprete what different parts of text have in relationship to other parts of texts
- taking a critical stance to communicate information or to express ideas.
- read with understanding and fluency
English: Traditional grammar
classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection. Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech, followed by an exercise.
English/Language Arts: Traditional grammar Assignment continued- please continue with what is a noun inshaAllah., Quick Review Topic: A Guide to Homework and Successful Studying Tips,
English: Traditional grammar (Discussion on What is a noun-continued), What is a noun? 3rd-6th , Noun Plurals 7th - HighSchool , 100 Misspelled Words, Vocabulary Building Advisor, Vocabulary Building Adivisor 2
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Help Your Child Become a Better Writer!
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Does your child or children write sentences that only you understand?
Are they using descriptive language when trying to explain?
How is their spelling ability or dictionary skill?
Let’s take a look at the following words for example:
That's terrific! Thats terifick!
Which one of these words would your child have chosen to be correct?
Lesson Index
Introduction to English
There are three types of writing: Narrative, Informative, and Pursuasive.
Writing sentences - that express a complete thought
Nouns- name that person, place or thing
Verbs- getting into action
Pronouns - words that replace nouns
Adjectives - the little spicy part of speech
Adverbs - words with answers
Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections - These words relate, connect and show feeling
Capitalization and Punctuation - reals signs of communicating
Goals for Writing:
- to write to communicate for a variety of purposes for various readers
- to write for the enjoyment of it, even if just for yourself alone.
Each writer should:
- establish focus
- develop content
- provide patterns of organization
- convey a sense of style
- demonstrate control of the conventions of standard written English
A Writer's Narrative
The Writer's Narrative weekly -Syllabus
A writer's narrative, consist of a notebook that you write many things in. One of the things you write in the book is colorful words and use of language that you hear or read somewhere such as a book. You also write story titles that you think would make a good story line. You may think of a good story title or poem to write down in your writer's narrative notebook when your doing something that has nothing to do with writing. You may write a story using a title that you wrote down in your writer's narrative sometime ago.
If you are going to keep a writer's narrative notebook you might want to join this class. This will give you an idea of how to keep a writer's narrative notebook. The instructor gives you a place to think like a writer , not just in school but wherever you are , wherever you get the inspiration. If you dream of becoming a writer someday , or if you just enjoy writing down interesting things that you see , hear , or think about , a writers narrative notebook is for you.
It's a place to record dreams , feelings , thoughts , and all your observations about the world around you. Some of these entries might be the basis of a story, poem , or personal essay. This class will show you exactly how to keep your writer's narrative notebook , an essential tool for a writer to have.
Want to learn more about the Writer's Narrative Notebooks?
Examples of Children's Writing
Please remember to use your own writing based upon facts, we do not tell tales, lies, "small truth" etc... (Personal Narrative) story telling based upon falsehood is called lying be very aware of this inshaAllah and read the following Lesson 1 - The Kadhdhab (Liar)
Writing Prompt
Freewriting suggest that you write whatever comes to mind for a limited time period. Alhamdulillah, we shall put this to the test here in class inshaAllah. Using Islamic sources of information from Qur'aan, Hadith, Seerah, History and Biography accounts. You will be provided a prompt. Write complete sentences if you can, but generally you can write whatever comes to mind and Allah knows best. Don't think to hard just write. "Free flow" or "Freewriting" is just that nice flowing thoughts. we will discuss more later.
You will find the writing prompt used for this weeks class here in this section. Please write it in your notebook. Write your reflection (summary of your thoughts) about what is being said. Jazakillahu Khayrun. (3 to 5minute exercise) make sure you date it for later usage inshaAllah. Read more about brainstorming techniques below.
Writing Prompt #1 :
Allah says: "Those to whom We have given the Book recite it as it truly should be recited, they are the ones who (truly) believe in it. And whoever disbelieves in it, then they are the losers."[2: 121]
Umar ibn al-Khattaab (radiallaahu anhu) said: "They are the ones who when they pass by a verse mentioning mercy, they ask for it from Allaah and when they pass by a verse mentioning punishment, they seek refuge from it."
Tafsir Ibn Katheer Vol. 1
The Writer's Narrative
The Writing Process - An Introduction
1. Prewriting: Finding Ideas for Writing
2. Prewriting: Brainstorming and Clustering
3.Prewriting: Asking Questions
6. Evaluating and Revising - Lost in Data Space (lol) coming soon inshaAllah...
Brainstorming
One method for coming up with a more specific focus is called brainstorming (or freewriting). Brainstorming is a useful way to let ideas you didn't know you had come to the surface.
Sit down with a pencil and paper, or at your computer, and write whatever comes into your head about your topic.
Keep writing for a short but specific amount of time, say 3–5 minutes. Don't stop to change what you've written or to correct spelling or grammar errors.
- After a few minutes, read through what you've written. You will probably throw out most of it, but some of what you've written may give you an idea that can be developed.
- Do some more brainstorming and see what else you can come up with.
