R.A.F.T.

Zane Parsley

Imagine you are an ecologist and have been commissioned out by Massey Mining Company for a land reclamation project.  The sight you have been chosen to restore is a former open surface mine.  For your initial report you have been asked to address your initial concerns of problems that might affect the rebuilding of a healthy ecosystem.  Write creatively and try to think holistically and ecologically.

Make sure to include the following issues:

1.     Water quality

2.     Soil quality

3.     Watershed

4.     Competition

5.     Topography

Before writing your initial draft, review the RAFT

 What’s your Role:__________________________________________

What’s your Audience:______________________________________

What’s your Format:________________________________________

What’s your Topic:_________________________________________

What’s your Strong verb:____________________________________

RAFT Kayla Fitzwater

Vietnam War Raft-Kayla Fitzwater

For today’s assignment you will be putting yourself in the shoes of a Viet Cong soldier during the Vietnam War. The year is 1968 and you are a soldier about to take part in the Tet offensive. You are only a teenager but you have already seen the horrors of war. As a child you thought the war was a game, even smuggling weapons from the “Republicans” and acting as a look out. Now you are old enough to fight the real war however and you are marching to the city of Saigon. You must write a letter to a loved one (mother, father, sibling, wife, child) to tell them that you are leaving for Saigon. Be sure to include as much Vietnamese culture as you can to make your letter seem authentic. Include your reasons for being part of the war and your feeling about the march to Saigon. Use the RAFT below to get you started.

Role:         Viet Cong Soldier         
Audience:          Loved One     
Format:         Letter       
Topic:      Your thoughts on marching to Saigon

Zach Freeman RAFTS

                In this assignment, you will write about your thoughts on the use of atomic weapons on Japan by the United States during World War II.  You will have to answer the following questions in your paper: Was the use of atomic weapons justified? If atomic weapons had not been used, how would the outcome of the war been different?  Use evidence to support your conclusions.  Also before beginning to write be sure to answer the questions:

What is your role involving the writing of this paper?

Who is your audience?

What form will you be using to write this paper?

What is the topic of this paper?

What is the strong verb you will use to describe your point of view for this paper?

THese questions should be able to give you an idea of what your goals are for this paper help you get started in your thought processes for this assignment.

RAFT by Eddie Short

You are a music student. You found out that the county you work in is going to cut funds for their arts programs in the schools. You decide to write a letter to the Board of Education in your county. You want the letter to persuade the board to keep the arts in your school. Before writing this letter, go through this recap:

Role:         Music Student          
Audience:          Board of Education     
Format:         Letter       
Topic:       Keeping the Arts in Your School     

RAFTS Sydney Smith

You are a youngAR verb. You are very hurt and upset by the fact that ER & IR verbs don't want to play with you at recess because they say that the two types of verbs should not mix. Your teacher has told you that you are to write the ER & IR verbs a letter explaining to them your feelings and why all of the verbs need to get along. Before creating your draft, go through this recap:

Your Role: An AR verb in school
Your Audience: The ER & IR verbs in the class
Your Format: A letter
Your Topic: Why you are upset & why the verbs should get along
Strong Verb: Explaining

Good luck!
-Sydney

RAFTS Assignment: David Holliday

Juliet has recently married her love, Romeo, but must part with him so he can avoid being put to death for his murder of Tybalt.  She locks herself in her room to deal with her anxiety and frustrations.  While hidden away in her room, Juliet’s parents arrange a marriage between the young suitor Paris and their daughter.  Imagine you are Juliet and you have just received the news that you are supposed to marry Paris tomorrow.  Write a letter to your parents trying to persuade them to not make you marry Paris.   

Before writing your first draft, make sure you identify the following:         

What’s your Role:__________________________________________

What’s your Audience:______________________________________

What’s your Format:________________________________________

What’s your Topic:_________________________________________

What’s your Strong verb:____________________________________


-David Holliday

R.A.F.T Kathryn Greer

In my 6th grade chorus class, I have boys whos voices are changing and are embarrased and will not sing. Girls are making fun of the boys because their voices squeek. As a class, we are going to better understand the changing male voice. Girls and boys will all need to know a little about how the voice changes in oder to perform the interview with each other

Girls
Role: Dr Oz
Audience: Talk show
Format: Interview
Topic: Male chaning voice and what to expect

Boys:
Role: Boy who's voice is changing
Audience: Talk show
Format: Interview
Topic: Male chaning voice and what to expect

RAFT Rebecca Hensley

RAFT Writing Assignment

You are the character Scout Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is now the year 1950. Fourteen years have gone by since your father (Attorney Atticus Finch) defended a black man (Tom Robinson) against rape charges in Maycomb, AL. You are a grown woman now, and your father has just passed away. Your responsibility now is to write a eulogy for your father’s funeral. Before creating your draft, go through this recap:

What’s your Role: Scout Finch

What’s your Audience: Residents of Maycomb, Alabama as well as other people attending the funeral.

What’s your Format: Eulogy( a speech or piece of writing that is a tribute to someone who has died)

What’s your Topic: Social/Racial Inequality

  

RAFT by Frances Blake

                                                                                                                

  US History Writing Assignment

You were a 14 year old boy in 1861; you have joined the service of the Virginia military. You, as a young man, had to lie about your age to fight for your state, the Confederacy, and beliefs. You survived the civil war and return home where your county is now a part of the new state of West Virginia. It is now 1915 and 50 years since the end of the Civil War. Lots of changes have happened and due to the 50^th anniversary of the Civil War ending; a journalist has convinced you to write a series of memoirs of your experiences during and after the war for a magazine.  

Your assignment is to be this man and recount a memory and write a story of something he may have encountered as a young boy being a soldier for the Confederacy and/or coming home after the war. (How was he treated now being a part of a new state where the majority of the people had supported the Union?)

Begin your writing by following RAFT

                        What’s your ROLE: _________________________

What’s your AUDIENCE: _____________________

What’s your FORMAT: _______________________

What’s your TOPIC: _________________________

*Each Memoir should be 250-300 words

RAFT Zachary Wilson

RAFT- American Revolution

Now that we have finished discussing the Revolutionary War, I want to hear what you think about it. What would Washington have said to the Continental Congress about the final battle at Yorktown? What would a soldier say about battles in his journal? How could a farmer rouse his companions to stand against the British? What would a citizen of Boston say after the war was over in a poem?

Role	Audience	Format	Topic
General George Washington	Continental Congress	Letter	Victory and Surrender of the British at Yorktown.
Soldier in the continental army	Journal entry	Journal entry of at least 8 sentences	Talking about the victories at Cowpens and Kings Mountain in the South.
Farmer from South Carolina	Local townspeople in a city in South Carolina	Persuasive speech	Trying to convince friends and family to rise up and rebel against the British authority and taxes.
Citizen in Boston	The British Crown	Poem of at least 10 lines	Poem about life with no more tyranny and no more taxes.

Zachary Goad raft

Marshall Wildlife Adventure

As the head reptile curator at  Marshall wildlife Adventure it is your job to make sure each species of animal in captivity gets the proper nutrition and to educate people on the animals in the zoo. Today you are having a local elementary school come for a visit and you are the tour guide. The idea is to educate the students on the certain animals in the reptile zoo. Be creative and write ideas on what the students can do to get a better understanding for these prehistoric creatures.

WHAT IS YOUR ROLE___________________________________________

WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE ________________________________________

WHAT IS YOUR FORMAT_________________________________________

WHAT IS YOUR TOPIC____________________________________________

RAFT -Megan Fry

Here’s your writing assignment:

You’ve been elected the leader of (insert favorite hobby here) and you must explain to your group the 3 most important aspects of the group.  You just found out about this 7 minutes before the group meets for the first time.  Be creative, include structure, and add some humor.  Before writing a draft, go through this quick re-cap:

What’s your Role:__________________________________________

What’s your Audience:______________________________________

What’s your Format:________________________________________

What’s your Topic:_________________________________________

RAFT by Keaton Cutler

RAFT Writing Assignment - Biological Balancing Act

      You are an employee for the Department of Fish and Wildlife in charge of the town’s lake, when you hear of a corporation’s new production plant being built nearby.  The plant is not in direct violation of municipal regulations for building the plant, but you know that the waste runoff from the plant will pollute streams and tributaries that feed into the lake.  You decide to write a letter to city council explaining the ways in which the lake is still in danger, but before you do…
What’s your Role:                                  Department of Fish and Wildlife Ranger     
What’s your Audience:                                            City Council                         
What’s your Format:                                           Persuasive Speech                     
What’s your Topic:                                       Environmental Protection                   

RAFT Robert Anastasio

Unit IV: 

Historia de Romarum, Via de Republica Imperium

(History of Rome, Road from Republic to Empire) 

     We've just concluded our study of Julius Caesar and his Legio XIII (Thirteenth Legion).  Now that we have learned about the events leading up to the first civil war which changed Rome from a Republic to the early Empire (known as the Principate), it is time for you to give your opinion.  Do you agree with Caesar, with his rival Pompey, or do you have doubts about everyone involved?  Use the evidence we have discussed to create a work which will back up whichever stance you take.  I have provided four options below.    However, if you can come up with another RAFT option, write out the four parts and hand it to me to look over.  I encourage you all to be creative.   

 

Role	Audience	Format	Topic
Julius Caesar	His wife, Calpurnia	Letter (At least 2 paragraphs)	Why he crossed the Rubicon, effectively declaring war against the Republic.
Cicero- Senate member & political opponent of Caesar	Roman Senate	Invective Speech (Remember, invectives abuse & denounce the person to which they refer)  (10 lines)	Why the Senate should support Pompey Maximus.
Catullus	Future generations of Romans	Poem of at least 10 lines	How people should judge Caesar. This can be pro-Caesar or anti-Caesar (Later, we will look at what Catullus actually said about Caesar)
Centurion from Caesar’s Legio XIII	Writing in a personal diary	Diary entry of at least 10 lines	Describing his feelings about instituting a civil war.