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| Unit 1: Narrative Craft |
| Session 1: Starting with Turning Points |
| Session 2: Dreaming the Dream of the Story |
| Session 3: Letting Other Authors’ Worlds Awaken Our Own |
| Session 4: Telling the Story from Inside It |
| Session 5: Taking Stock and Setting Goals |
| Session 6: Flash-Drafting |
| Session 7: What’s this Story Really About? |
| Session 8: Bringing Forth the Story Arc |
| Session 9: Elaborating on Important Parts |
| Session 10: Adding Scenes from the Past and Future |
| Session 11: Ending Stories |
| Session 12: Putting on the Final Touches |
| Session 13: Reading with a Writer’s Eye |
| Session 14: Taking Writing to the Workbench |
| Session 15: Stretching out the Tension |
| Session 16: Catching the Action or Image that Produced the Emotion |
| Session 17: Every Character Plays a Role |
| Session 18: The Power of Commas |
| Session 19: Mechanics |
| Session 20: Reading Aloud Your Writing: A Ceremony of Celebration |
| Session 21: Transferring Learning: Applying Narrative Writing Across the Curriculum |
| Unit 2: The Lens of History: Research Reports |
| Session 1: Organizing for the Journey Ahead |
| Session 2: Writing Flash-Drafts |
| Session 3: Note-Taking and Idea-Making for Revision |
| Session 4: Writers of History Pay Attention to Geography |
| Session 5: Writing to Think |
| Session 6: Writers of History Draw on an Awareness of Timelines |
| Session 7: Assembling and Thinking About Information |
| Session 8: Redrafting our Research Reports |
| Session 9: Celebrating and Reaching Towards New Goals |
| Session 10: Drawing Inspiration from Mentor Texts |
| Session 11: Primary Source Documents |
| Session 12: Organizing Information for Drafting |
| Session 13: Finding a Structure for Letting Writing Grow Into |
| Session 14: Finding Multiple Points of View |
| Session 15: Creating Cohesion |
| Session 16: Using Text Features to Write Well |
| Session 17: Crafting Introductions and Conclusions |
| Session 18: Mentor Texts Help Writers Revise |
| Session 19: Adding Information Inside Sentences |
| Session 20: Celebrations |
| Unit 3: Shaping Texts: From Essay and Narrative to Memoir |
| Session 1: What Makes a Memoir? |
| Session 2: Interpreting the Comings and Goings of Life |
| Session 3: Writing Small about Big Topics |
| Session 4: Reading Literature to Inspire Writing |
| Session 5: Choosing a Seed Idea |
| Session 6: Expecting Depth from Your Writing |
| Session 7: Studying and Planning Structures |
| Session 8: The Inspiration to Draft |
| Session 9: Becoming Your Own Teacher |
| Session 10: Revising the Narrative Portion of a Memoir |
| Session 11: Editing for Voice |
| Session 12: Seeing Again, with New Lenses |
| Session 13: Flash-Drafting |
| Session 14: Revising the Expository Portions of a Memoir |
| Session 15: Reconsidering the Finer Points |
| Session 16: Rereading Your Draft and Drawing on All You Know to Revise |
| Session 17: Metaphors Can Convey Big Ideas |
| Session 18: Editing to Match Sound to Meaning |
| Session 19: An Author’s Final Celebration: Placing our Writing in the Company of Others |
| Unit 4: The Research-Based Argument Essay |
| Session 1: Investigating to Understand an Argument |
| Session 2: Flash-Drafting Arguments |
| Session 3: Using Evidence to Build Arguments |
| Session 4: Using Quotations to Bolster an Argument |
| Session 5: Redrafting to Add More Evidence |
| Session 6: Balancing Evidence with Analysis |
| Session 7: Signed, Sealed, Delivered |
| Session 8: Taking Arguments Up a Notch |
| Session 9: Bringing a Critical Perspective to Writing |
| Session 10: Rehearsing the Whole, Refining a Part |
| Session 11: Rebuttals, Responses, and Counterclaims |
| Session 12: Evaluating Evidence |
| Session 13: Appealing to the Audience |
| Session 14: A Mini-Celebration: Panel Presentations, Reflections, and Goal Setting |
| Session 15: Argument Across the Curriculum |
| Session 16: Taking Opportunities to Stand and Be Counted |
| Session 17: Everyday Research |
| Session 18: Taking Stock and Setting Writing Tasks |
| Session 19: Using All You Know from Other Types of Writing to Make Your Arguments More Powerful |
| Session 20: Evaluating the Validity of Your Argument |
| Session 21: Paragraphing Choices |
| Session 22: Celebration: Taking Positions, Developing Stances |