112 Days of Bravewriter

I recently bought and read The Writer's Jungle (see photo of the absolutely enourmous PDF below). I told myself I would just read it on the computer, but I can't stand reading on-screen for very long. So I printed it. Wow.  I loved many of the ideas in it and was pretty excited to get started-but TWJ doesn't contain a whole lot of nitty gritty how-to-get-it-done type info. Last year, we tried out several ideas from Julie's Brave Writer Lifestyle, which were a big hit with the kids.  I wanted to continue our favorites from BWL and try out some new things from TWJ.

 I came up with a list of 112 Brave Writer activities to do this school year, which works out to about three per week.  I will add "Bravewriter" to my loop plan and we will work our way through the list as time permits.

Julie suggests doing no more than one writing project per month, with just one step completed each week. We will only attempt four Bravewriter-style writing projects this year because we are also using Writing Strands and MCT Town. My plan is to have the kids choose their own topics for the Bravewriter writing projects.

Note: Many of these entries are described in greater detail on the Brave Writer Lifestyle site or in The Writer's Jungle.

112 Activities to do from Bravewriter Lifestyle and The Writer's Jungle

1.  Freewriting
2.  Copywork 
3. Play a language game
4.  Dictation
5.  Poetry Teatime
6. Scrounged Poetry activity (from TWJ)
7.  Freewriting
8.  Copywork
9.  Dictation
10.  Reverse Dictation
11. Watch and discuss a movie
12. Choose a topic for writing project & research
13. Play a language game
14. Keen Observation exercise (from TWJ)
15.  Freewriting
16.  Copywork
17.  Dictation
18. Write a rough draft for writing project
19. Poetry Teatime
20. Jabberwocky activity (from TWJ)
21.  Freewriting
22. Watch and discuss a movie
23. Play a language game
24. Narrow and expand writing project
25.  Copywork
26. Dictation
27.  Reverse Dictation
28. Finish up writing project, find readers
29. Write a cartoon or limerick
30.  Freewriting
31.  Copywork
32.  Dictation
33. Play a language game
34. Watch and discuss a movie
35.  Poetry Teatime
36.  Write a poem
37. Freewriting
38.  Copywork
39. Choose a topic for writing project #2 & research
40.  Dictation
41. Reverse Dictation
42.  Rough draft of writing project #2
43. Play a language game
44.  Write a letter
45. Watch and discuss a movie
46. Freewriting
47.  Copywork
48. Narrow & expand writing project #2
49.  Dictation
50. Poetry Teatime
51.  Write a how-to article
52. Polish & find readers for writing project #2
53. Play a language game
54. Freewriting
55.  Copywork
56. Dictation
57. Watch and discuss a movie
58.  Reverse Dictation
59.  Play a language game
60. Play the communication game (from TWJ)
61. Freewriting
62. Copywork
63. play a language game
64. Dictation
65. Poetry Teatime
66. Choose a topic for writing project #3 (make a mini-book as discussed in TWJ) & research
67. Watch and discuss a movie
68. Freewriting
69. Copywork
70. Dictation
71. Reverse Dictation
72. Rough draft of mini-book (writing project #3)
73. Play a language game
74. Try scrounged poetry idea (from TWJ)
75. Freewriting
76. Copywork
77. Dictation
78. Watch and discuss a movie
79. Poetry Teatime
80. Narrow and Expand mini-book (writing project #3)
81. Keen Observation exercise (from TWJ)
82. Freewriting
83. Play a language game
84. Copywork
85. Dictation
86. Reverse dictation
87. Finish up mini-books (writing project #3)
88. Try the Jabberwocky exercise (from TWJ)
89. Watch and discuss a movie
90. Freewriting
91. Copywork
92. Dictation
93. Play a language game
94. Poetry Teatime
95.  Write a cartoon or limerick
96.  Freewriting
97. Copywork
98. Dictation
99. Watch and discuss a movie
100. Choose & research a writing project (writing project #4)
101. Write a letter
102. Play a language game
103. Freewriting
104. Copywork
105. Rough draft of writing project #4
106. Poetry Teatime
107. Play the communication game
108. Narrow and expand writing project #4
109. Choose a favorite game or project to repeat
110.  Freewriting
111. Copywork
112. Polish and find readers for writing project #4