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| Unit 1: The Arc of Story: Writing Realistic Fiction |
| Session 1: Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments |
| Session 2: Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World |
| Session 3: Developing Believable Characters |
| Session 4: Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations |
| Session 5: Plotting with a Story Arc |
| Session 6: Show, Don’t Tell: Planning and Writing Scenes |
| Session 7: Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Your Story |
| Session 8: Studying Published Texts to Write Leads |
| Session 9: Orienting Readers with Setting |
| Session 10: Writing Powerful Endings |
| Session 11: Revision: Rereading with a Lens |
| Session 12: Making a Space for Writing |
| Session 13: Using Mentor Texts to Flesh Out Characters |
| Session 14: Editing with Various Lenses |
| Session 15: Publishing Anthologies: A Celebration |
| Session 16: Launching Independent Fiction Projects |
| Session 17: Planning and Drafting Stories with Agency |
| Session 18: Mining the Connections between Reading and Writing Fiction |
| Session 19: Focusing the Reader’s Gaze |
| Session 20: Choosing Punctuation for Effect |
| Session 21: Surveying Your Work and Planning for the Future |
| Unit 2: Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays |
| Session 1: Essay Structure Boot Camp |
| Session 2: Collecting Ideas as Essayists |
| Session 3: Writing to Learn |
| Session 4: Using Elaboration Prompts to Grow Ideas |
| Session 5: Mining Our Writing |
| Session 6: Boxes and Bullets: Framing Essays |
| Session 7: Return to Boot Camp |
| Session 8: Composing and Sorting Mini-Stories |
| Session 9: Creating Parallelism in Lists |
| Session 10: Organizing for Drafting |
| Session 11: Building a Cohesive Draft |
| Session 12: Becoming Our Own Job Captains |
| Session 13: Writing Introductions and Conclusions |
| Session 14: Revising Our Work with Goals in Mind |
| Session 15: Correcting Run-On Sentences and Sentence Fragments |
| Session 16: Moving from Personal to Persuasive |
| Session 17: Inquiry into Persuasive Essay |
| Session 18: Broader Evidence |
| Session 19: Connecting Evidence, Reason, and Thesis |
| Session 20: Getting Ready to Put Our Opinions into the World |
| Session 21: Hey World, Listen Up!: Sharing Our Opinions Loudly and Proudly |
| Unit 3: Bringing History to Life |
| Session 1: Getting the Sense of Informational Books |
| Session 2: Planning the Structure of Writing |
| Session 3: Planning and Writing with Greater Independence |
| Session 4: Teaching as a Way to Rehearse for Information Writing |
| Session 5: Elaboration: The Details that Let People Picture What Happened Long Ago and Far Away |
| Session 6: Bringing Information Alive: Stories inside Nonfiction Texts |
| Session 7: Essays within Information Texts |
| Session 8: Taking Stock and Setting Goals: A Letter to Teachers |
| Session 9: Writers Plan for Their Research |
| Session 10: The Intense Mind-Work of Note-Taking |
| Session 11: Drafting is Like Tobogganing: First the Preparation, the Positioning… Then the Whoosh! |
| Session 12: Developing a Logical Structure Using Introductions and Transitions |
| Session 13: Text Features: Popping Out the Important Information |
| Session 14: Quotations Accentuate Importance: Voices Chime In to Make a Point |
| Session 15: Using All We Know to Craft Essay and Narrative Sections |
| Session 16: The Other Side of the Story |
| Session 17: Self-Assessment and Goal Setting: Taking on New Challenges |
| Session 18: Information Writing Gives Ways to Idea Writing |
| Session 19: Digging Deeper: Interpreting the Life Lessons that History Teaches |
| Session 20: Using Confusions to Guide Research |
| Session 21: Questions without a Ready Answer |
| Session 22: Editing |
| Session 23: A Final Celebration: An Expert Fair |
| Unit 4: The Literary Essay: Writing About Fiction |
| Session 1: Close Reading to Generate Ideas About a Text |
| Session 2: Gathering Writing by Studying Characters |
| Session 3: Elaborating on Written Ideas Using Prompts |
| Session 4: Finding and Testing a Thesis |
| Session 5: Using Stories as Evidence |
| Session 6: Citing Textual Evidence |
| Session 7: Using Lists as Evidence |
| Session 8: Putting It All Together: Constructing Literary Essays |
| Session 9: Writing to Discover What a Story Is Really About |
| Session 10: Adding Complexity to Our Ideas |
| Session 11: Flash-Drafting Literary Essays |
| Session 12: Beginnings and Endings |
| Session 13: Using Descriptions of an Author’s Craft as Evidence |
| Session 14: Editing |
| Session 15: Building the Muscles to Compare and Contrast |
| Session 16: Comparing and Contrasting Familiar Texts |
| Session 17: Using Yesterday’s Learning, Today and Always |
| Session 18: Developing Distinct Lines of Thought |
| Session 19: Exploring Commas |
| Session 20: A Celebration |