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Quill• Quill theory

• Functional learning environments

Quill pedagogical goals• Encourage writing for peers• Develop writing skill in the context of

meaningful communication with real audiences

• Encourage feedback from others• Provide motivation to read the writing of

others• Facilitate revision• Help with the mechanics of writing

Quill optionsPlanner: Helps you to think of ideas for writing.

You can take notes and get a list of your notes when you are finished.

Library: Stores your writing so you can change or add to it later and others can read it.

Mailbag: Allows you to send messages to your teachers and your classmates or read the messages they have sent to you.

Library goals• Creating a communication environment

in which students write for their peers as well as for the teacher.

• Organizing writing in different ways.

• Providing easy access to stored pieces of writing

Library options• See: Read Library entries by choosing

keywords or titles

• Add: Put a new entry into the Library

• Change: Change an old Library entry

Library activities• Kids’ Review• Classified Ads• Newspaper• Animal

Encyclopedia• How To Do It

• Poetry, novels, journals, . . .

• Television scripts• Portfolios• Selecting a Text

Choose an entry by using1. Keywords

2. Title and author

3. Entry number

There are entries for these keywords

1. Reviews 6. Entertainment

2. Food 7. Delicious

3. Pizza 8. Italian

4. Animals 9. Games

5. Restaurant 10. Movies

There are 3 entries with the keyword: Pizza

TITLE AUTHOR #1 AUTHOR #2

1. Rita's Pizza Steve Keywords: Pizza/Review/Italian

2. Gigliotti's Joan Vinnie Keywords: Pizza/Restaurant

3. House of Pizza Ed Keywords: Review/Pizza/Delicious

Library examplePizza lovers, stay away from Rita's Pizza! I'm sorry to say that poor Rita hasn't the knack for making pizza. When I ate there, I had to wait 25 minutes for my pizza. The crust was mushy and the sauce tasted like tomato juice. The center of the pizza had too much oil on it and it dripped all over my hands and the table when I picked it up. Maybe I went there on a bad day. It just seemed like everything was lousy. The only good thing about Rita's Pizza was that it had a room with video games.

Menudo novel

Mailbag goals• Encourage written communication to

diverse audiences• Allow different kinds of writing to occur

(informing, persuading, instructing, entertaining)

• Motivate students to write more by personalizing the experience

Mailbag options• Read: Read messages to you, a group,

or the Bulletin Board

• Send: Write messages to other people, groups, or the Bulletin Board

Read mail• See YOUR OWN mail

• See the mail of a GROUP

• Look at the BULLETIN BOARD

Send mail• Send this message to a PERSON

• Send it to a GROUP

• Post it on the BULLETIN BOARD

Mailbag activities• Clubs

• Bulletin Board

• Secret messages

• Confidential Chat

• Jokes & riddles

• Feedback on writing

Planner goals• Supporting the collection of notes or

data for writing

• Encouraging the organization and revision of ideas

• Providing an environment for idea generation

Planner options• Use: Use a PLANNER to start working

on your writing

• Create: Make a new PLANNER

• Modify: Change an old PLANNER

Planner activities• Book reviews

• Science reports

• Narrative

• Editorial

• Interview

A restaurant review planner1. What is the name of the restaurant?2. Where is it?3. On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the

restaurant4. Would you go back again?5. Who owns it?6. What kinds of foods are served there?7. What is their specialty?8. How is the service?

Garden planner

Writer’s Assistant goals• Composing

• Seeing what changes need to be made

• Revising

• Producing final copy

• Peer editing and feedback

Writer's Assistant to reviseDrugs are Dumb

Benjamin M.Darren S.

What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is underaged kids are taking drugs. their not getting enough education. Some kids even get killed! Adults should educate their children not to take drugs. It would take a few months or weeks to get over this problem. It is important to solve this problem because sometimes people get killed. Keywords: /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/education/

Revised versionDangerous Damaging Drugs

Benjamin M. Darren S.

What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is underaged kids are taking drugs. They're not getting enough education. Some kids even get killed! Adults should educate their children not to take drugs or not to get involved with drugs. To get help you should go to a psychiatrist for help! It would take an unlimited amount of time to get over this problem. It is important to solve this problem because sometimes people get killed. So be smart, make sure you don't take drugs!

Keywords: /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/education/

MIXing paragraphsWe'll tell you some things about Shungnak.

In the winter it is very cold.

In the summer it is very warm.

A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting and go get wood.

They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home and share.

A lot of people go camping in the summer.

If they seine they will get a lot of fish.

They smoke salmon fish for the long winter.

Paragraph form

We'll tell you some things about Shungnak. In the winter it is very cold. In the summer it is very warm. A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting and go get wood. They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home and share. A lot of people go camping in the summer. If they seine they will get a lot of fish. They smoke salmon fish for the long winter . . .

Quill Teacher’s Guide "Where I'd Like to Live: Students write about places they’d like to live, using

encyclopedias, travel brochures, maps, and magazines. Animal Encyclopedia: Students create their own reference book using their own

categories. Disease Digest: Students create and publish a digest of childhood diseases

indexed with keywords such as "contagious," "headache," and "spots." Classified Ads: Students create classified ads for things they want to sell or

exchange, announcements, or services they need or have to offer and post them on the Bulletin Board in MAILBAG.

Television Series: Students plan a television (or radio, play, movie, or book) series. They use a LIBRARY disk to store character descriptions and successive installments in their series.

Game Review: Students write a Game Review planner and use it to create a disk with reviews of their favorite games.

QUILL Cookbook

Quill teacher support-day 1

• Introductions • Overview of QUILL• Writing workshop• Introduction to the Apple II• Beginning Writer's Assistant: edit a simple file• Use MAILBAG to SEND and RECEIVE messages

Day 2

• CREATE and USE a restaurant review planner• Discuss integrating PLANNER into writing

projects • ADD a restaurant review• SEE others' reviews• Comment on these texts using MAILBAG• CHANGE a restaurant review

Day 3

• Teacher's Guide• Advanced Writer's Assistant• Utility disk• Discuss classroom issues

Other support• classroom visits• local facilitator• hot line to provide follow-up help • electronic mail • monthly mailings containing samples of student work, ideas for activities, and software tips.• year-end conference

Realizations in the classroom

• New ways of writing• Students writing to other students (writing with a purpose)• Students writing for themselves (writing to learn)• Too Late! (writing with an audience)• The Menudos (students writing together)• Holy Cross brochure (integrated learning)

Milling around

Other examples• Telida calendar, bilingual, with poetry & artwork• mail order catalogs• USS Alaska• Cu’pik/English dictionary • autobiographies• interviewing elders, writing biographies• native studies writing

Creating learning environments

• Lab reports• Mail• Teacher-student dialogue• Telida Current (editing for the audience)• The Black History Show (changes in the writing process)• Revising becomes editing