Growing Literacy in Social Studies
“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the
beat is telling me to do.Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four,eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK.
This is what I wanna do." Eminem
"Good writing is like a windowpane." George Orwell
"I hate writing, I love having written." Dorothy Parker
"And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss." J. K. Rowling
"Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer." Ray Bradbury
Critical Reading
Document Analysis
Informal Writing
Formal Writing
Academic Vocabulary
Which Writer
Are You?
