Meaning of Home

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn393RfhZ6I

What can you guess with what was happening in the video?
How did the video make you feel?
Did it give some ideas for what you might write about your
own home?
Think-pair-share these ideas.
 Samples from Winners
https://meaningofhome.ca/winners/what-home-means-to-me-2/

essay style

https://meaningofhome.ca/winners/when-i-think-of-home/

winner - poem
 Requirements/Ideas for Essay:
● 50-300 words
● What does home mean to you?
● How does it make you feel?
● What makes it special?
● What makes your home feel
different than going to a
friend’s house?
● What makes it yours?
● What is your neighbourhood
like?
● When you look out your window,
what do you see?
● Does home help you relax? How
does it help you relax?
● Does being at home make you
feel safe? How does it make
you feel safe?
● Is it comforting? What about
it is comforting?
 Add to your brainstorm

● Look around you for inspiration

● Write about what you already know
● Have conversations with peers
● Try to write ideas down for 6-7+ of the prompts
 Requirements/Ideas for Essay:
● 50-300 words
● What does home mean to you?
● How does it make you feel?
● What makes it special?
● What makes your home feel
different than going to a
friend’s house?
● What makes it yours?
● What is your neighbourhood
like?
● When you look out your window,
what do you see?
● Does home help you relax? How
does it help you relax?
● Does being at home make you
feel safe? How does it make you
feel safe?
● Is it comforting? What about it
is comforting?
 Writing:
● Introduction (write something that will make the reader want to
keep reading)
● Write more details and reasons as to what home means to you and
WHY (I feel cozy because…)
● Use lots of descriptive words
● Use transition words (first, next, then, finally, in conclusion)
● Conclusion (write something that wraps up what you were saying.
Say something that the reader will remember)
● Writing is personal, reader should tell it is coming from your own
ideas/feelings
 Writing an Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2H29fRVqf8

● Ask the reader a question “Have you ever felt…?”

● Start with a sound “Boom”
● Start describing the setting “It was a dark and stormy night”
● Start with talking “Go away!’ I told my brother”
● Start with a statement

● Hook the reader!

● Make them want to keep reading → make it POWERFUL
 Writing Example

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a16bKbXMCpnlcvBf
yM_wyylxVxLSb5ZQZQmO70DWXY4/edit?usp=sharing
 Editing your draft: Yourself & a friend
● Paragraphs indented
● Are any words used too
● Capital letters at starts of
many times?
sentences and for names of
● Check for spelling
people and places
● Will the reader
● Use short and long
understand what home
sentences
means to you?
● Many different words used
● Is there a good title of
● Descriptive words?
your work?
 Sharing
● Share an idea or two of what you might write about.
● Share any new feelings/ideas you may have learned
today.
● Share how you are feeling about the draft so far – how
much more time just to write out the ROUGH draft is
needed?
● Share what you have for your draft so far?
 Goal:
Get good feedback on your writing!

Get close to/or finish essay.

Rough Draft Due Tomorrow!

Peer feedback
● Sounds like?
● Look like?
● Examples?
● What do we do
about it?

*Use a different
coloured pen for editing
 Editing:
Peer Feedback:
(Use editing symbols)
❏ Title
❏ Introduction makes sense
❏ Capitals
❏ Punctuation
❏ Paragraphs indented
❏ Descriptive words
❏ Spelling
❏ Details & Explanations
❏ Conclusion wraps up essay
After I’m Done Peer
Feedback:
❏ Make changes to my essay
❏ Finish my essay
❏ Check-in with Miss Schlitz
to go into the hallway to
read essay out loud to
self. (Does my writing flow
and make sense?)
❏ Make changes to my essay
❏ Start typing good copy on
google docs
❏ Work on crossword
❏ Decorate Folder
 Sharing
● Share how you are feeling about the draft so far –
how much more time just to write out the ROUGH
draft is needed?
● Share what you have for your draft so far!
● What great feedback did you get?