A unit designed to cultivate an awareness of and interest in words and dictionaries. Group collaborations that integrate language skills. Students describe people and places, portray characters and conflicts in pantomime and dialog, and blend these elements in stories, plays, and radio scripts that they perform or publish. Students create poems, couplets, limericks, haiku, quatrains, ballads, and sonnets, which they publish in an anthology at the end of the course. At the end, students write, produce, and tape a program.
Lessons focus on word choice, sentence structure, style, usage, editing, and rewriting.
At the end, students compile an anthology of their work. Students learn the uses of statistics, quotations, anecdotes, credits, endnotes, and bibliographies. Students participate in mock trials, take depositions, and write briefs and news accounts. The workshop culminates in writing argumentative essays and conducting debates.