ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING
Writing Workshop #1--Timed Writing Journal (continued from Monday)
- Please re-read the directions on page 37 for the Childhood Lie or Memory.
- Re-read what you typed in class on Monday for this assignment.
- Take fifteen to twenty minutes to finish this journal, then save it, print it front and back, and put it in the drawer for me to read, please.
Online Submission
- Select ONE of your six-word memoirs (or more, if you so choose), and submit them at the following link:
Poetry Sounds Scavenger Hunt
- Form groups of two to three.
- Grab a green packet of the Form and Meaning poems you wrote this weekend.
- Mr. Johnston has the directions!
Writing Workshop #2--Saying It Without Saying "It" Poem
- You have twenty minutes to work on this assignment. Please review your rubric, as well as pages 38-9 in your book before you dive in today.
- This assignment is due FRIDAY when you walk in.
Homework
- Two completed Post Secret Postcards (Thursday)
- One photograph of you to use for the worksheet on page 40 (which we'll do in class tomorrow--Thursday)
- Saying It Without Saying "It" Poem (Friday)
CREATIVE WRITING
Class Announcements
- Please do not be absent this FRIDAY. We are going to Stewart to Mrs. Bailey's class to meet our third-grade writing buddies. We are going to show them how to write an Autobiographical Poem.
- We will ride the bus over there.
- We will need to eat "C" lunch Friday, due to our field trip.
Writing Lesson--Titles, Part II!
- Get a handout entitled, "Making Titles...."
- Get an Earthbook--any issue will work.
- Complete the worksheet.
- Put your name on the worksheet, and drop it in the drawer.
- Neatly put your EB back where you got it.
Writing Revision Assignment--Autobiographical Poem, Draft #2
- Go into the Student Volume in HS Classes, and open the rough draft of this poem you wrote on Monday. Do you see my comments there? Good!
- Make sure "Track Changes" is on, and all your boxes are checked. Otherwise, you will receive a zero for this second draft.
- Revise this poem, doing any of the following as needed to make your poem super-strong:
- Add more specific details and examples, concrete things the reader will be able to picture in his/her mind.
- Make sure the word at the end of each line is powerful.
- Make sure the title is a knock-out!
- Use your red Vocabulary Variety page to substitute more precise words for vague or non-descriptive words.
- Use at least one color.
- Use at least one sound.
- Use at least one texture.
- Did you make at least ten changes as listed above, or as a result of suggestions I made on your draft? You need to make at least ten changes to receive full credit for this assignment. How will I know you've made at last ten? I'll see them as "Track Changes" on today's draft.
- Save this second draft over the first one, in the same place as before. I will look at them tonight.
DUE: 12:03
Reading and Writing Assignment #2: The Six-Word Memoir
· Rumor has it that when writer Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a short, short story, he penned this: “Pair of baby shoes: never worn.”
· That’s only six words, but it tells a story.
· That’s only six words, but it tells a story.
- · I want you to explore the six-word memoirs and stories here: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
- · Spend fifteen to twenty minutes just reading people’s memoirs. You can browse, or you can click on a certain subject area, if you’re interested in memoirs on one topic.
- · By the end of classtime today, you need to have your own six-word memoir (truth) typed and saved in the folder in HS Classes entitled "Six-Word Memoirs". Save it as your last name.
- Please write THREE six-word memoirs--that way, you can do a funny one, a serious one, and whatever else you come up with.
- · I’d like to share these aloud to start off class tomorrow, but you can decide with ONE you want to share out of the THREE that you write.
Reading Assignment--Last One!
- Go the the website below, and browse the list of words that this organization is trying to save.
- After you browse for fifteen minutes, find THREE that you want to save.
- Type the word, the part of speech, and the definition, then a sentence about why you want to save it.
- Save this document in the HS Classes folder called "Saved Words".
Homework
None, unless you need to finish any of the items listed above.
MODERN PROSE
MODERN PROSE
- Read!
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