FRIDAY, April 8th, 2011

CREATIVE WRITING

Hello, people!  Happy Friday!  J

Quick-Write (Five Minutes)  8:13-8:18

·       Take out a sheet of notebook paper.

·       In the few minutes you have, make two lists:

o   Best of the Week

o   Worst of the Week

·       If you complete both lists, start another list:  what you’re most looking forward to in the next two weeks.

·       For 100%, you have to write the whole time.

Writing Lesson—Diction = WORD CHOICE

·       A Bunch of....  (p. 13)

·       Hasta la Vista, Catchphrases (pages 14-15) 

Writing Assignment

·       Death of Language (p. 16)

·       Workshop Time with a Dictionary = twenty minutes

·       Due Date:  TUESDAY.

… With Me at My Desk When I Call You Back

·       p. 8

·       p. 13

·       Earliest Memory Poem

Organization

·       Folder log-in.

1.      Cliché Story

2.     Journal #1

3.     Early Childhood Memory

4.     Around the Block

5.     WE#4?—Spilled Popcorn; Leaver/Leavee

Next Week

·       I have not forgotten about revising the Russian Tailor Poem.  We will do that Monday or Tuesday.  And then we’ll share our best line.

·       And we are definitely going to share the Cliché Stories Monday or Tuesday as well.