---
title: "08.31.07"
date: 2007-08-31
url: https://learningischange.com/2007/08/31/083107/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 08.31.07

Core 1:

- Write-on: Translate five of your authentic topics into inauthentic prompts.  What is the difference in the wording of an authentic topic vs. inauthentic prompt?

- Discover how we can go from inauthentic prompts to authentic topics  How can you attack an inauthentic prompt?
- What do you owe an authentic topic?

- Extensions:  Take your worst prompt of all time and write out how you would attack it if you were given it again (your authentic way of writing it).

Core 2:

- Act-on and Write-on: Get with one other person who has their beginning sentence and switch predicates. Write your new sentence in your notebook.
- Continue reading “Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences.”  Take notes on types of sentences and clauses.

- Extension:  Find one compound-complex sentence in your AR book and bring it in.

Core 3:

- Write-on: How do you know when you have used too many sesquipedalian words in a conversation or a piece of writing?
- Attempt the translation on page 6.  How can you translate the exact meaning while still giving it your own writing style.

- Analyze the Analogies.  What kind of relationships are possible in an analogy?

- Extension:  Create your own analogy using two other words in list 31.

Core 4:

- Write-on: What was the worst writing prompt that you have ever encountered? Why?
- Hand back and Discuss Ocean Question papers.
- Brainstorm the differences between an authentic topic and an inauthentic prompt?  What were you able to accomplish with the authentic piece that you couldn’t do with the inauthentic piece?
- What are the most authentic prompts that you can think of?

- Extensions:  Write down ten Authentic topics that you would like to explore this year (or that other people would want to explore)?