7th GRADE

SUMMER WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Dear Seventh Grade Black or Silver Team Student,

This summer we would like you to find topics and purposes for your writing that matter to you, to your life, to who you are, and who you want to become. Try new genres. As a reader and writer, you can only grow if you practice. Be the first responder to your writing.

Sincerely,

7th grade Silver Team and Black Team Teachers

Assignment Summary

1. One persuasive essay - Follow attached guidelines (prompts, transition words, graphic organizer, elements of a good essay and a rubric)

2. Write a letter to your advisor telling him or her all about yourself and the wonderfulness of you!

Extra Credit:

Create a piece of writing using any additional genres (memoir, feature article, poem, book review, letter, short story, play, musical lyrics, etc.)

"To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write…" - Donald Graves