| 1: General/Orientation Exercises
Starting a Workshop or Semester
**Getting to Know Your Writers: Background Questionnaire
**Congrats Letter for Summer Workshop
Getting Started With Teens
**Introduce Yourself
**Introduce Yourself (Pair off, interview, introduce)
**Icebreakers
**Orientation/training: Overview of the Office, etc.
Getting Started—Larger Issues
**General Overview of Writing and Journalism
**Thoughts on Our Training System
**Overview of an Intensive Writing Workshop (Andrea)
What Editors Do in the First Two Weeks
**Starting a New Semester at NYC
**Orientation/training: Schedules (Nora’s CWOP Days 1-4)
**Represent Summer Workshop Training (Days 1-4)
**NYC Summer Workshop Training (Days 1-5)
**Represent Summer Workshop Training (Days 1-8)
**Familiarity with the Magazine (Represent Scavenger Hunt)
**Setting Publication Goals (workshop for students)
**Questions for New Students to Help Plan Semester
Evaluations/Ending a Workshop
**Student Self-Evaluation
**Evaluating the Latest Issue of Represent
**Weekly Summer Workshop Evaluation Form
**Summer Workshop Evaluation
**Evaluating the Girls’ Workshop
**Portfolio Evaluation Checklist
**Ending the Represent Summer Workshop:
****“Hitting Back First” Story
2: Exercises for personal stories
What is a Personal Story?
Autobiographical Writing
Writing About Your Name
Personal/Autobiographical Writing (Jobs, by Grace Paley)
Autobiographical Writing
Reading a Personal Story Critically
Getting Started
**Generating ideas for personal stories
**How to Come Up with Ideas for Personal Stories
**Brainstorming About Foster Care Story Ideas
**Prompts for Personal Story Ideas
**Story Idea Proposal
Selectivity and Organization
**Shaping the personal story-"From Fighta to Writa"
Style Issues
**Simplifying for More Authoritative Sentence
Descriptive Writing
**Describing a Place
**Five Senses
**Discussion: For the Homeless,
**There’s No Bus Out of Port Authority
**Lesson on Describing People and Places
****How to Edit Description
****Editing Exercise: Making a Description More Detailed,
****Observing and Describing a Place
****Descriptive Writing from Memory
****Analyzing a Description of a Person
****Observing and Describing a Person
****Overheard Conversation
Teaching Editing
**Teaching Writers to Think Like Editors
**Focusing/Structuring a Story Before Writing
**Imagining a Reader
**Questions for Focusing a Story Before Editing
**Using Outlines to Focus a Story
**Seeing Other Points of View
**Cut this Story in Half
Critical Reading of a Personal Story
**A Designer Addiction
**Where Are the Latinos At?
**The ‘N’ Word
**Tired of Being a Target
Compare and Contrast Two Personal Stories
**Guys Get All the Breaks
**Girls: We’re Better than We Think
Working with a Writer’s Voice
Finding the Emotional Core
**Moving from the Impersonal to the Personal
**Developing Scenes (and Emotional Depth)
**Plot/Theme/Structure
****(Writing About Someone Who’s Important to You)
**Developing the Emotional Core/Reflection
* **(The Poet’s Husband)
**Questions to Ask Yourself to Develop the Emotional Core
**Getting at Hidden Emotions in a Story
**Finding the Emotional Core Through Freewriting
Reflective Writing
Action vs. Interpretation
Reorganizing a Draft
Specific Story Types: Lessons and Guidelines
**Writing an Opinion Piece
****General Guidelines
****Lesson Plan
**Writing a Profile
****Profile Writing Exercise
**Writing About Someone Important in Your Life
**Writing an Issue-Oriented Feature
**Guidelines for Book Reviews
****Outline for Writing Book Reviews
****Reviewing Lesson
**Teaching Evaluative Writing
**General Guidelines for Reviews
**Critical Reading of Movie Reviews
**Writing About Pop Culture
**Peer editing (Nora)
**Peer Editing Form
Grammar, punctuation, spelling—Common Problems Test 1
Grammar, punctuation, spelling—Common Problems Test 2
Sensitive story checklist
Misc. Lesson Suggestions
Breath Eyes Memory Exercise
Misc. Lessons
3: Exercises for Reported Stories
What is Journalism?
Basic Skills/Building Blocks of Journalism
(6 lesson sequence)
Accuracy
Observing a Person
(3 step lesson)
Observation and Description
Writing Leads
Using Quotes 1
Using Quotes 2
The Reporter’s Role and Responsibilities
Coming up with Ideas for Reported Stories
Open- vs. Closed-Ended Questions
Interview Role Play
Interviewing Tips 1
Interviewing Tips 2
Debriefing an Interview
Reported stories: Introduction, Tips, Examples
How to Write a Query Letter
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