Students will work with a draft of their own writing and learn four main strategies to make their writing stronger and more effective
They will read their writing and have conferences with me and with their peers. 
I will model the strategies for them first.
At the beginning of each class, starting with Lesson Two, students will share what they have done to practice the strategy, and discuss how it made their writing sound stronger and more professional. 
Lesson plan:
Week One: Questions to Ask While Writing: Students will learn basic questioning strategies that will help focus their writing on what's most interesting and important
Week Two:  Verbs, the Engines that Drive Writing: Students will learn various strategies to eliminate or replace weak verbs to make their writing stronger
Week Three:  Creating Sentence Variety: Students will learn sentence combining techniques, how to vary sentence beginnings, and how to create a variety of sentence lengths and styles.  
Week Four: Being Specific--Digging for Details: Students will focus on adding specific details to create images
Week Five: Sharing final pieces of writing. Peer and teacher feedback. Self -reflection