Writing Roadmap & Encouraging bad writing

In my grade 7 classroom, we have been tackling some rather boring expectations aligned in our curriculum (see top of image). To make it less daunting, and more, I don’t know, manageable? I have made this roadmap.

Students began what they deemed interesting sentences from texts, and check-point one was determining the structures of sentences, and when and where to use them.

Now we’re into checkpoint 2, and tomorrow, we are going to play with getting creative.