Monday, January 15, 2010

CREATIVE WRITING


Homework Due

• Journal #1

Writing Lesson

• We reviewed what cliches are, and why they tend to weaken our writing.
• We checked out the big cliché list on pages 19-20.  We talked about some of the ones we'd never heard of, and we talked about a few we liked.
• We spent a few minutes working on page 18 again, and then we traded papers a couple of times so we could see each other's work.  We went around the room and let everyone share his or her best anti-cliché.

Collaborative Writing Assignment

• I explained the Cliché Group Writing Assignment (p. 21), and I read a model by Nick, Andy and Jamie.
• We split into trios, and we started looking for clichés we wanted to use in our stories.  And then we began writing our cliché stories.

Homework

• None

ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING


Homework Due

• Still Life Poem

Writing Lesson--Diction

• We reviewed the Banished Words assignment.  
• We put each group's list of Banished Words up on the Big Screen and discussed them.
• Morgan pointed out that words evolve over time in some cases, and that they may go from a positive to a negative connotation, or vice-versa.
• We voted on our top words.  We'll submit them to the website later this week.

Writing Lesson--Poetry

• We talked about the kinds of things we wanted people to comment on when we workshop poems.

Sharing

• Six people volunteered to have their Story as Poem poems workshopped on the Big Screen:  Mallory, Morgan, Miranda, Nic, Greg, and Brit.  People made constructive comments, and we noted comments, then printed the workshopped copies.

Housekeeping

• We decorated our folders and our nametags.

Homework

• None