Wednesday, April 28, 2010

CREATIVE WRITING


Due

• Autobiographical Poem

Stewart Writing Buddies

• I talked a bit about this project, and that we'd be meeting our buddies on Friday, May 7th.
• I answered questions about what we'd be doing, and why.

Writing Experiment #8
Dear Kiddo--write a poem in the form of a letter to your future child!  (Some people chose to write letters in paragaph form--fine!)

• I gave the assignment, and I read Ben's and Brittany's models.  We talked about the assignment for a bit, then typed/wrote for fifteen minutes, then handed the assignment in.

Tabloid Stories

• We talked about what we wanted to do with these, and our plan was to share them in small groups.

Showing--Not Just Telling

• We looked over the Unit 3 overview (p. 49) to get an idea of what the unit is about.
• We put the four "mammas" sentences into least vivid to most vivid (p. 50).
• We analyzed the Cisneros sentence for Diction (p. 50), taking notes, and discussing.
• We talked about Vocabulary Variety on pages 58-9.  We went through the list, and we talked about words we thought were vivid.  We also defined words we didn't know.

Writing Assignment/Homework

• Fill in the blanks on page 60 to complete your own skeleton of a Sense Poem! (due THURSDAY)
• Musical Memory Journal (due MONDAY)