Extra Assignments

Extra Writing Assignments for the Eager Students

We love extra work!

GLPS Camp is now underway and we have begun the adventure of creating our very own blogs.  The blog you have created is your forum to share your work and experiences from GLPS 18 Summer Camp.  Use it as often as you can to improve and practice your writing.

What can you put on your blog?  You can post work from your debate class, your speech and any other work you are working on.  You can even share some of your diary entries (only the ones you don't mind showing the world, that is!) and write about your camp experiences including activities, friends, teachers or camp food.

For those of you who are finished your writing assignments and want more practice please see the list below of extra assignments you can use to enhance your writing and give you additional practice.

Remember you will get a score out of 50 in week 2 and a final score out of 100 in week 4.  Each week the best bloggers will be recognized with a "Shoutout" and at the end of camp the top 3 bloggers per class will get awarded. Things I will use to choose the best bloggers are:

• Class Participation: Did the student stay active and fulfill the goals of assigned class work? Did they visit other blogs and leave comments? Did they get things done on time? Did they take pride in their work? Did they speak in class discussions?

• Attention to Detail: Did the student make things look nice? Did they embed videos, include pictures, and use links within their writing to show sources? Did they keep a close eye on spelling and grammar?

• Creativity: Did the student try to produce original content, showing original thought and personality through a desire to write?

 Now that you have motivation, start blogging!

 Here is the list of extra assignments to choose from:

Assignments	Degree of Difficulty
1. Write about you! That's what blogs are for. Write about your 3 favourite memories.	Easy!
2. Upload your speech! A speech is kind of like a reflective essay, so you might as well share it after your teachers have corrected the grammar.	Easy!
3. Reviews! You are allowed to review anything you want – a book, movie, video, album, game, restaurant, hotel…. Just about anything. You should have personal experience with that thing, and supply factual data to dress up your writing (Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon, IMDB, and Metacritic etc). React to opposing or supporting reviews that might add to your response. You must include a rating system. Stars, thumbs, out of ten or our of five, A- or C+ etc.	A little bit of thinking will be needed... but it's fun!
4. Poetry! We will do Diamante poems in class, but you are welcome to write other poems as well. Any kind you want - limericks, couplets, haiku, free verse! It's always nice if you include a picture.	Easy? Maybe.
5. Review a TED video of your choice, and comment on why you find it interesting. What did you learn from it? You can find TED at www.ted.com. It stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design - and is basically YouTube for smart people!	A little challenging.
6. Reflective Essay about an experience you’ve had. You should weave in the theme of a “learning experience” and come to a resolution by the end. But really it is up to you what you do - tell us a story!	Easy!
7. Creative Essay about where you’ll be in life in either 10, 15, or 20 years from now. Must be written in First Person narrative as if you are experiencing a particular day at that time.	Challenging but fun!
8. Write about your typical day at GLPS in the "second person" narrative. Using "you," you will tell us what "you" feel and think as "you" ride the elevator to the 12th floor to eat breakfast as "you" almost revive and EOP etc.	Easy!
9. A letter to your younger self. Imagine if you could send a letter to the past and have your younger self gain some wisdom for your current self.	Easy!
10. “A Book I’d Write If I Had The Time.” Tell us the plot of a book you’d love to write if you had the time. Introduce us to the story, the characters, and then take us through what would happen. I think we all have a story we’d love to write. If only we had the time! Maybe you will find the time. Now is your chance to discuss it.	Easy! Not really. Difficult?
11. An Argumentative Essay about something you want to argue about! It could be a news story you are concerned about, or maybe you want to tell the world why Dokdo is Canada's. Did I say Canada? I meant Korea. : )	Easy to write, but difficult to write well!







Assignments

Degree of Difficulty

1. Write about you! That's what blogs are for. Write about your 3 favourite memories. 

Easy!

2. Upload your speech! A speech is kind of like a reflective essay, so you might as well share it after your teachers have corrected the grammar.

Easy!

3. Reviews! You are allowed to review anything you want – a book, movie, video, album, game, restaurant, hotel…. Just about anything. You should have personal experience with that thing, and supply factual data to dress up your writing (Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon, IMDB, and Metacritic etc). React to opposing or supporting reviews that might add to your response. You must include a rating system. Stars, thumbs, out of ten or our of five, A- or C+ etc.

A little bit of thinking will be needed... but it's fun!

4. Poetry! We will do Diamante poems in class, but you are welcome to write other poems as well. Any kind you want - limericks, couplets, haiku, free verse! It's always nice if you include a picture.

Easy?
Maybe.

5. Review a TED video of your choice, and comment on why you find it interesting. What did you learn from it? You can find TED at www.ted.com. It stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design - and is basically YouTube for smart people!

A little challenging.

6. Reflective Essay about an experience you’ve had. You should weave in the theme of a “learning experience” and come to a resolution by the end. But really it is up to you what you do - tell us a story!

Easy!

7. Creative Essay about where you’ll be in life in either 10, 15, or 20 years from now. Must be written in First Person narrative as if you are experiencing a particular day at that time.

Challenging but fun!

8. Write about your typical day at GLPS in the "second person" narrative. Using "you," you will tell us what "you" feel and think as "you" ride the elevator to the 12th floor to eat breakfast as "you" almost revive and EOP etc.

Easy!

9. A letter to your younger self. Imagine if you could send a letter to the past and have your younger self gain some wisdom for your current self.

Easy!

10. “A Book I’d Write If I Had The Time.” Tell us the plot of a book you’d love to write if you had the time. Introduce us to the story, the characters, and then take us through what would happen. I think we all have a story we’d love to write. If only we had the time! Maybe you will find the time. Now is your chance to discuss it.

Easy!
Not really.
Difficult?

11. An Argumentative Essay about something you want to argue about! It could be a news story you are concerned about, or maybe you want to tell the world why Dokdo is Canada's. Did I say Canada? I meant Korea. : )

Easy to write, but difficult to write well!