Step One: Generate Your Topic
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Writing Editorials
- Writing Editorials Content Bundle
- Unit Overview
- Unit Resources
- Step One: Generate Your Topic
- Step Two: Gather Your Evidence
- Step Three: Plan Your Editorial
- Step Four: Write Your First Draft
- Step Five: Revise
- Step Six: Edit and Publish
Step Five: Revise
- Lesson 5.1: Revise for Clarity of Meaning
- Lesson 5.2: Revise for Persuasion
- Lesson 5.3: Revise for Point of View
- Lesson 5.4: Use Hyperlinks
- Animation: Revise
- Animation: Revise for Persuasion
- Teacher Powerpoints for Step Five: Revise
Unit Resources
Step One: Generate Your Topic
- Lesson 1.1: Define an Editorial
- Lesson 1.2: Identify Your Passions
- Lesson 1.3: Focus Your Topic
- Animation: Select Your Topic
- Animation: Focus Your Topic
- Handout 1.1a: Editorials Packet
- Handout 1.1b: Characteristics of an Editorial
- Handout 1.2a: Find Your Passions
- Handout 1.3a: Topic and Questions
- Teacher Powerpoints for Step 1: Generate Your Topic
Collection Contents
Lesson 1.1: Define an Editorial
by Teaching MattersAfter being introduced to Writing Editorials by watching the animated program, students learn some of the reasons why editorials are written. They read two editorials and identify and describe the characteristics of this genre, with an emphasis on how editorials persuade readers to change their actions, thoughts or feelings.
Lesson 1.2: Identify Your Passions
by Teaching MattersStudents learn about the first step in the writing process, generating ideas. They generate five or six possible editorial topics, focusing on issues they encounter in their daily lives that they feel should be changed. Students narrow this list of topics to the single one about which they feel most passionate.
Lesson 1.3: Focus Your Topic
by Teaching MattersStudents continue to work with the editorial topics about which they feel most passionate. As a strategy to focus their topics even further, students develop and respond to a series of “should” questions that help them identify whether or not their topics are sufficiently controversial to be appropriate for an editorial.
Animation: Select Your Topic
by Teaching MattersAnimated short on selecting your editorial topic.
Animation: Focus Your Topic
by Teaching MattersFocusing animation on how to focus your editorial topic
Handout 1.1a: Editorials Packet
by Teaching MattersA handout containing a few samples of student editorials.
Handout 1.1b: Characteristics of an Editorial
by Teaching MattersRead an editorial. Then complete the chart below by writing an example from the text of each editorial characteristic you notice. If you notice other characteristics of an editorial in the text, add them to the chart.
Handout 1.2a: Find Your Passions
by Teaching MattersThink about your typical day. Identify things that you feel passionate about or things that make you angry. Concentrate on topics that will also be interesting to other people. Then make a list of these items.
Handout 1.3a: Topic and Questions
by Teaching MattersWrite at least four controversial questions about your topic.
Teacher Powerpoints for Step 1: Generate Your Topic
by Teaching MattersVisuals for step 1 of Writing Editorials.
