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Joel Hilgendorf – Language Arts
Meet Your Teacher
•Joel Hilgendorf
Lawrence Central 1994
IUPUI School Of
Education
Five Years In Retail
Management
Lived in Illinois, Ohio, and
Indiana
Hobbies Include:
Poetry
Photography
And My Better Half
Annabelle Lee
Grew up in Bloomington
Hobbies:
Swimming
Chasing Sticks
Running Outside
Begging
Warren Central High School
MISSON STATEMENT
The future begins here
for a life-long learning in
our diverse community:
integrity, achievement, success.
Principal: Tony Burchett
9500 East 16th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46229
Telephone: 532-6200
Fax: 532-6199
http://wchs.warren.k12.in.us/home/
 Daily Writing in Learning Journals
 Continuous Revision
 Peer Groups & Collaboration
 6-Trait Rubric Assessment
 Formative Grammar Evaluation
 Personal Style Guide
 Final Portfolio Published
Standard 5 WRITING: Applications
At Grade 9, students combine the rhetorical
Standard
4
WRITING:
Process
6
strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion,
Students
discussinideas
English
Language
Conventions
and description
texts for
(of writing
at least with
1,500other
words).
writers.
write
coherent
and
focused
StudentsThey
write
using
Standard
English
begin
to write
documents
relatedessays
to
that
show
a well-defined
point
of viewdemonstrates
and
tightly
career
development.
Student
writing
Conventions,
Grammar
and
Mechanics
of Writing,
reasoned
argument.
progress
aManuscript
command
of Standard
English
and thethrough
research,
Form
. * Students
organizational,
and
drafting
strategies
outlined in
the stages of the
writing
process
(prewriting,
Standard
4 — Writing
Process. *Writing
writing, editing,
and revising).
demonstrates an awareness of the audience
(intended reader) and purpose for writing. *
*Indiana Academic Standards Grade 9 - English/Language Art
TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING
Write in Your Journals Everyday
Revise, Revise, Revise
Have Friends & Family Read Your Drafts
Take Chances
Ask Questions
Have Fun
Keep a Personal Style Guide
Don’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes
Read, Read, Read
Writing Resources
Need Help
With
Writing?
The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
The Online Writing Center at Purdue
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Wikipedia - Free Online Encyclopedia
www.wikipedia.org
Landmark’s Free Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/
Parents, You Can Help
 Encourage Writing
 Ask to Read Drafts
 Communicate with Me
 Ask Questions
 Encourage Daily Study Time
 Celebrate Success
Resources For Parents
 National

http://www.nea.org/parents/index.html
 Warren

Education Association
Central PTSA Application
http://wchs.warren.k12.in.us/parentinvolve
ment/membership_form.pdf
 Tolerance.org
Parent Resources
http://tolerance.org/parents/index.jsp
 Learn
More Indiana Website
Needed Supplies
Take Home Journal – Bound Notebook
Personal Style Guide – Spiral Notebook
Three-Ring Manuscript Binder
Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary
Strunk & White’s Elements of Style
Bibliography
Ayers, William. Teaching Toward Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press,
2004
 Delpit, Lisa. The Skin That We Speak. New York: The New Press,
2002
 Emig, Janet. The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders.
Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 1971.
 Fulwiler, Toby. The Journal Book. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook,
1987.
 Indiana Academic Standards Grade 9 English/Language Arts.
Indiana State Board of Education, 2000. 14 Nov. 2005
http://www.doe.state.in.us/standards/grade09-12_eng.html
 Zemelman, Steven, and Harvey Daniels. A Community of Writers.
Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1988
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