“Paragraph a Week” Homework Assignment
Due: December 4, 2009 (Rough Draft Only!)
Assignment: Letters About LiteratureYour assignment this week will be to write a letter to an author of a book that you have read recently. Only the rough draft of this letter is due on Friday, December 4th! (Please bring the book to school too.) During class next week you will edit and revise your letters and write a final draft. The final draft of the letter (4th and 5th grade) will be submitted to a national contest, Letters About Literature. A copy of the letter will also be sent to the author. We did this last year and had great results! Several students received letters back from the authors that they wrote.
Attached to this assignment sheet is a rubric/format guide for the letter. Letters should be at least three paragraphs long. They should have an opening paragraph, at least one body paragraph, and a closing paragraph. Today in class we read and discussed the example letter.
These letters should not be fan letters! Instead of complimenting the author you should be telling the author how the book affected you and changed your view of the world or self. The letter should not summarize the book either—the author already knows what happened in their book!
This week and next week there will be lessons and activities in class to help students to complete this assignment. We will be covering letter writing and responding to a book (versus complimenting an author and/or summarizing a book).
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