WW: Sports Writing Syllabus

With the "Writer's Workshop" portion of this course name, I mean to align this class with other writing classes around the school. We teachers intend to offer a consistent, school-wide writing program that will provide students with opportunities to explore different forms of writing.

This class will provide students a chance to write about sports in various ways. Although I consider this a writing class, we will do a fair amount of talking, reading, revising and critiquing in class, which will force a fair amount of writing (and typing) to a place outside of class time. Although the students will need to fulfill many of the same requirements and complete many of the same exercises, they will record their own unique stories pieces of writing,


Students will assessed on the following:
-Overall Class Participation -Quality of final pieces
-Work on Revisions
-Quantity of final pieces
-Adherence to due dates
Notebook entries


I also hope you will…
-Serve as a member of the class as writer in a writing group
-Take and give suggestions
-Work hard and improve your writing rather than merely turning things in
-Get into this and follow a team


Grading:
A: Student exceeds course expectations; I have no choice but to give you an “A.”

B: Student meets course expectations and produced quality work, but s/he could do more.

C: Student lacks one or more of requirements, but did some good work

IP: Student does not meet many course requirements and put forth little/no effort.


We will explore:
-Columns
-Articles
-Features
-Research & Bbiliographies
-Creative Pieces
-Reviews/Book Reports
-Film Reviews
-Studies of Certain Columnists