Wednesday, April 14, 2010

CREATIVE WRITING

9:55-10:05—EARLIEST MEMORY PARAGRAPH TO POEM

·      Grab an iBook.

·      Finish typing your poem.

·      Read over both the paragraph and the poem, making revisions as you see fit.

·      Save in your own Student Volume folder.

·      Print to room 212.  (Don’t go get it; I’ll go pick it up.)

10:05-Dialogue Model (Ben Again)

10:15-10:35—WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT?

·      Read over what you have so far.

·      Think about where you want to with your story.

·      Consider bringing in more dialogue.

·      Continue typing.

·      By 10:35, you need 1 ½ pages of a doublespaced draft.

·      Save it in your Student Volume folder.

·      Print it to room 212.  (Don’t go get it; I’ll go pick it up.)

Organization

• We passed back papers.
• We did a folder log-in.
• We got Unit 2--and we went over the first page to see what we're doing during this unit.

Writing Lesson

• We partnered up to read the page about when to start a new paragraph, and then we worked our magic on the John Green excerpt.  I passed out the actual book page.  Tomorrow we'll begin class with a discussion of why we (and John Green) created paragraphs where we did.

Homework

• None

MODERN PROSE

EARTHBOOK