Wednesday, 1/27/2010

CREATIVE WRITING


Homework Due

• Wr. Ex. #3

Sharing

• We shared our cliché stories aloud.  Wow--people used a lot of clichés!   Hopefully, we have this out of our system now.  :-)

Reading

• We read Earthbook for about twenty minutes, finishing our search for a piece we like that we can read in class tomorrow.

Writing Lesson

• Choosing Precise Adjectives (p. 22)
• We talked about how and why to use precision when describing something.  Rather than saying, "It was a nice day," include a concrete detail or two that will SHOW your reader a nice day.
• We also talked about relative terms, like "tall" and "old".  Cassie and Glenda showed us how and why the word "tall" is all relative!  :-)
• We worked on making "that awful food" more precise with concrete description.  We'll work on the rest of page 22 tomorrow.

Homework

• None

ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING


Workshop (twenty-five minutes)

• Five people shared their Sound Poems and we gave them comments:  Jennica, Tayler, Tyler, Tad and Katey Jo.

Writing Assignment (twenty-five minutes)

• I handed out the packets with all the class poems in them.
• We highlighted our lines from the packet.
• We talked about what we might need to consider when making all these lines into one poem, the Class Poem Revision:  flow, order, line breaks, deleting words that make no sense or are not needed, and adding words that are.

Diction

• We each submitted our Banished Word to the Lake Superior website.  :-)

Diction

• I quizzed people on some Alternate Definitions of words.  :-)  We'll continue these tomorrow.

Homework

• None