Hello and Welcome to Writers Workshop!
This blog will be your go to for assignments, updates, and deadlines. Please take advantage of this resource. If you are absent - this should be where you check in for any missed writings and assignments. You are a young adult and thus will be treated asuch. It is your duty to look out for yourself, and it is my duty to teach and guide you.
This will be a terrific year for you to grow as a writer and as an individual as you prepare to exit high school and take on the world. I will urge you to take stock of your life and to write authentically and in the most genuine way possible. You will have lots of freedom with your topic choices - however I will be expecting you to experiment with different genre, styles and techniques on a frequent basis - this means ALL THE TIME.
We will read a variety of mentor text so that you can see what different writers do. I will encourage you to try on these styles and to make them your own.
This will be unlike any class you have taken - however our time together is important and valuable and even though we will "play" with language and words - the art of writing (and writing well) is our business. This means I will expect your very best on a daily basis and thus you will be assessed for your intrinsic abilities and consistent involvement within our writing communities.
I look forward to seeing you improve and mature.
I look forward to hearing your voice and perspective.
Please continue to check the blog - as we begin our writing assignments this week.
Write On.
Samakosky
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