Monday, January 31st, 2011

ACW


Due

• Symbol Poem  (I will make copies of these for tomorrow, at which time we will annotate them, then discuss them in a workshop circle.)

Workshop

• We had ten minutes to finish the Extravagant Morning/Hurtling Towards Cereal Bowl.... assignment.  We saved these to the "ACW" folder, then shared them to see what kind of DICTION we used!

Diction

• We shared our Alternate Definitions.  :-)

Memoir
Here are the directions for the second part of class today:

1)  Click on the following link, and read the story about what a six-word memoir is; and make sure you read the excerpts at the bottom of the article--those are six-word memoirs people wrote for the book:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18768430


2)  Now go the following website, and spend twenty minutes reading the memoirs there.  You can browse by topic, or you can watch the illustrated memoirs on the main page--just browse, read, and hopefully enjoy.  :-)  Warning:  some of the memoirs do have mature content, so if you see something that offends you, simply click out, and go to a different category.

http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

3)  Type your own six-word memoir (or type multiples!), and save it/them in the "ACW" folder called "Six-Word Memoirs".


4)  IF TIME ALLOWS--You will need earbuds or headphones for this.
Read about a project called "Six Billion Others"
http://www.6milliardsdautres.org/

• Clicking on "The Project" will give you a little background about the project.
• Clicking on "Discover:  5000 testimonies of 6 billion Others" will take you to the page where you can listen to stories.
• Is there one story that leaves an impression on you, more than the others?

Homework

• None (unless you need to finish your six-word memoir)

CREATIVE WRITING

Due

• Death  of Language

Diction

• I talked about the word "booger"--how it has both a denotative (dictionary) and a connotative (loaded; associative) meaning.
• We also talked about the word "overweight" as being a non-loaded word, and then we put other synonyms up and talked about which ones were more positive (thick, big-boned, fluffy, voluptuous), and which ones were more negative (fat, tubby, obsese).
• We partnered up to work on and complete What ARe You Suggesting? on page 18.
• After lunch, we shared our answers and talked a bit about them.
• We partnered up again to work on Playing with Words on page 19.  This was really difficult, but we powered through and came up with some strong answers.
• We shared our answers for page 19.

Homework

• None

MODERN PROSE

• We read!