R A F T Definition An acronym used for a piece of creative writing R Role the role you will play in the piece of writing A Audience who is the audience to which you are ID: 511639
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Writing Notes
R A F T
Definition: An acronym used for a piece of creative writing.
R
=
Role
(the role you will play in the piece of writing)
A
=
Audience
(who is the audience to which you are
speaking)
F
=
Format
(letter, news article, speech, diary entry, email,
text, etc….)
T
=
Topic
(the subject of which you are writing)Slide2
Short Grammar Lesson
Topic is the subject you are writing about.
Topic is the
subject of which you are writing. Audience is the people to whom you are writing or speaking. The audience is the people you are speaking or writing for.
f
or
about
preposition
preposition
You
CANNOT
end
a sentence
with a preposition.Slide3
Message in A bottle
“The Most Dangerous Game”
RAFT Writing AssignmentSlide4
Instructions
You are Sanger Rainsford stranded on Ship-Trap
Island, and
you have one chance to write a message in a bottle asking for help off the island. Be sure your letter includes details from your experience on the island that will be convincing enough for a search party to rescue you from the clutches of General Zaroff.Slide5
“The Most Dangerous Game” RAFT
R = Sanger
Rainsford
A = anyone who may find your messageF = short letter T = pleading for someone to help you off Ship-Trap IslandSlide6
Requirements:
The final draft must be
typed, double spaced, and include with MLA heading
. This final draft will be done in the library on Thursday. If you are absent you must type it on your own time)The message must be 8 well-written sentences
minimum.Incorporate
3 sentences of text evidence about location and environment from the story.
(factual descriptions based on the text)
Include one
original simile or metaphor (not copied from the text)
Include
one original example of personification (not copied from the text)
Include
5 of the 15
vocabulary words in your message. (any form of the word)
1
. Barbarous
6
. Ingenious
11
. Retrieve
2.
Bewilder
7
. Peril
12
. Stealthy
3. Demented
8
.
Petrified
13
. Trackless
4. Deplorable
9
.
Protrude
14. Vicious
5. Imperative
10
. Pursue
15
.
Wager
Slide7
Clarifying Text Evidence
I:
Text Evidence
– information from a text that supports and idea, theory, or inference.
A) Quotes
– “This place has an evil name among sea-faring men” (Connell 56).
B) Facts
– Rainsford was headed towards a hunting expedition in the Amazon.
C)
Summarizing
– Rainsford fell of the yacht and swam to the shore of Ship Trap Island. A demented man named Zaroff
lives there.
D)
Statistic - “From 2009 to 2014 3,880 people died from unintentional drowning and boating related accidents” (Home and Recreational Safety). Slide8
Highlighting
3
sentences of text evidence
highlighted in blueSimile/Metaphor highlighted in yellowPersonification highlighted in orange5 words from the word bank highlighted pink