Introduction
Why do we write? To communicate, of course. Yet, good writers play with words and ideas and choose different ways and forms of writing to convey ideas.
Think about this recipe for writing-- Thinks about the words used in a recipe and the words needed to describe writing. Did the recipe explain the plight of the writer?
Writer's Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup diligence
3 cups smiles
25 sharpened pencils
35 colored pens
1 ton of paper
2 cups of redo
4 tablespoons everyday words
25 gallons of questions
6 cups vivid verbs
4 cups nifty nouns
a sprinkle of adjectives and adverbs
1 ton of patience
65 gallons of listening
2 tons of friends
35 resources of good ideas, including yourself
Directions
Gather paper, pens, and pencils and place on desk. Look through own mind and other resources for one excellent and specific idea. Begin with everyday words about the idea. Share with a friend for more information, or research in your resources. Add diligence as you specify with nifty nouns. Listen to a friend again. Add his/her questions to your own to redo the idea with more details. Sprinkle the adjectives and adverbs sparingly. Pour in the patience and stir in the vivid verbs, redoing as necessary. Listen to the lilt of your words and present your product, smiling at your success as a writer.
How about trying a reflective and fun recipe on your own topic, such as skateboarding, txting, hoops, yourself, etc.?
Lesson Goals
Overview
This project shows how well you can transform ideas into a different form/genre/mode of writing:
- We can brainstorm/prewrite knowledge about a person, yourself, a topic
- Rather than simply write a paragraph or summary, we can create a recipe that includes clear, specific information using the vocabulary of a recipe
Objectives
This project should demonstrate that you can:
- Gather and organize ideas
- Choose appropriate, interesting, styled words that fit the topic (your choice) and the form (recipe)
Assignment
Create a RECIPE about yourself or a topic of your choice. Be precise and detailed. Keep asking yourself, What else? What else? Be prepared to share in some way in class (read all of it; share a part; let someone else share it with the class).
Keep your drafts on the Reflective Recipes Project Page. We'll watch them improve as you change them, and as your peers offer praise and suggestions.
What I'm looking for:
clear ideas
logical order
words that whistle about your topic--show the topic, don't tell
words specific to the form (Recipe)
SAMPLE
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T08
9/30/05
Recipe--second draft
Recipe for Rezmut
Ingredients
1 cup patience
1 playground, with and without kids
1 gallon's worth sense of smell
3 cups sense of sight
1 weedy area, set aside
2 gentle eyes
1 ton of sweetness
a pinch of natural spices
45 tons of white fur, gathered from every comfortable spot in the house (and every corner too)
1 tablespoon of bark
4 webbed feet
any puddle or lake
Heinz 57
Directions
Take one school playground, sometimes with kids, and sometimes without. Pour in the sense of smell sifted with the sense of sight. Apply the ton of sweetness as the kids stream out of the building, some of whom carry fingers full of food. Stir in the two gentle eyes viewing for vittles. Add one warning bark when danger nears. Sprinkle a pinch of natural spices, if a growl or chase is required. Fold in the four webbed feet for the puddle or lake. Include Heinz 57 species of canine. When done, sweep up the 45 tons of white fur that results, and hug your Rezmut (reservation mutt).
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