Cascio's 11th Grade ELA Class: Reminder!

Monday, February 10, 2014

Don’t forget to complete your AR quiz on Divergent.

The deadline is February 14, 2014!

	Ideas Good writing has clear ideas, a purpose, or focus. It should have specific ideas and details.

	Organization Writing should have a beginning, middle, and an ending and be well organized and easy to follow.

	Voice Your writing should connect with your audience, fit your purpose for writing, and reveal your voice.

	Word Choice Good writing has specific nouns and verbs and strong words that deliver the writer's message.

	Sentence Fluency Sentences should vary in length, with a variety of sentence beginnings. The writing should flow smoothly from sentence to sentence.

	Conventions Strong writing is edited for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling so the writer's ideas easily understood.