Institute for Excellence in Writing- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style

Lessons

• 1A Watch Disc 1 of the Student Writing Intensive and stop at the writing pause. Be sure to watch through the portion where Mr. Pudewa introduces the who/which clause. "Sea Wasp"
• 1B Introducing Cephalopods
• 1C Cephalopod Abilities
• 2A Watch Disc 1; "Farmer & Sons"
• 2B Donkey and His Driver
• 3A Watch Disc 1 from "Dress-ups: Who/Which" to pause for writing; "Farmer and Sons" rewrite
• 3B Alice Sees the White Rabbit
• 3C "Dorothy and the Cyclone'
• 4A Watch Disc 1 starting at "Choosing a Title" to the end
• 4B The Gordian Knot
• 4C Carthage
• 5A Reinforcement Lesson (no disc); "False Teeth"
• 5B Anesthetics
• 6A Watch Disc 2 from the beginning through the "adverbial clause" dress-up, stop just before Story Sequence. "Blood Transfusions"
• 6B Antiseptic
• 7A Watch Disc 2 starting at "Story Sequence Chart" and continuing through to "The Most Likely Mistake." "The Lion and the Shepherd"
• 8A Watch Disc 2 starting at "Acting Exercise" through the end of the disc. "The Salt Merchant and His Ass"
• 9A Watch Disc 3 from the beginning through the end of the second "More Dress-Up Review", STOP before Sentence Openers. "The Serpent and the Eagle"
• 10A Watch Disc 3 from "Sentence Openers" through "Writing Checklist". Write story outline from "Cinderella".
• 11A Watch Disc 3 from "Report Writing: Topic/clincher" through the pause for highlighting. Humpback Whale mini-books
• 12A Finish watching the third disc. Report on subject of your choice.
• 13A Watch Disc 4 from the beginning through "Checklist and Review of the Week"; Rewrites from Lessons 1-3
• 14A Watch Disc 4 from "Taking Notes from Your Brain" to "Pause for Writing"; Brain Inventory
• 15 Finish watching Disc 4; Outline on typical school day