One text-type family per lesson — compose, peer-mark against criteria, refine.
Intended learning: write openings that imply conflict within two sentences.
Teaching: Hook types: in medias res, striking image, unsettling statement, voice-forward. Avoid waking-up openings and weather-only starts.
Hook bank: collect five published first lines; label each hook type.
Intended learning: convert told emotion into shown behaviour and sensory detail.
Sensory inventory of one place you know: five details per sense; circle the freshest.
Intended learning: write dialogue carrying subtext; script with correct formatting.
Teaching: Dialogue does three jobs at once: characterises, advances plot, hides subtext. Script conventions: character centred caps, stage directions bracketed/italicised.
Eavesdrop (ethically/publicly) on a conversation; transcribe 8 lines; note what's NOT said.
Intended learning: distinguish classification-report from process-explanation; use technical register.
Connective bank: list 10 causal + 10 sequential connectives; use five in sentences.
Intended learning: command imperative precision; sequence recounts with time markers.
Rewrite your morning as a procedure; then as an anecdotal recount. Note register shifts.
Intended learning: write leads answering the 5Ws+H; structure by descending importance.
Journalism is the first rough draft of history.— attributed to Philip L. Graham, The Washington Post, 196
Deconstruct two newspaper leads; identify which W each clause carries.
Intended learning: orchestrate ethos/pathos/logos with speech rhythm devices.
Speech skeleton planner: address → hook → three points → memorable close.
Intended learning: balance stance with concession-rebuttal moves; develop columnist voice.
Collect two opposing editorials on one issue; map their concession moves side-by-side.
Intended learning: hold a controlling idea through deliberate wandering.
"My grandmother never learned to swim, though she lived her whole life on an island. I think about this whenever someone tells me fear is rational." — anecdote entry, controlling idea seeded implicitly.
Discursive map: entry anecdote → three perspective waypoints → exit insight.
Intended learning: evaluate own compositional choices specifically.
Write a 200-word reflection on your Lesson 9 discursive piece using the specificity test.
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