CREATIVE WRITING

Writing Assignment #1:  Perfect Moment

1.      Viewing:  “Remember the Titans” ( 9 ½ minutes)

2.     On your paper, write down as many “Perfect Moments” from the movie clip as you can. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRPqHpDdIaA&feature=fvsr        

3.     Brainstorm perfect moments:  list as many perfect moments from your own life that you can think of! (five minutes)

4.     Look at models of final product:

a.     Read Marissa’s (p. 70)

b.     Kylie’s (big screen)

5.     Fill out a Visualizing Pre-Writing Sheet, a skeleton for our rough draft.

6.     Read both pages of your Vocabulary Variety, and see what words you can ADD to your five senses sheet.

7.     Put your name and topic on it, then hand it in.

Writing Lesson #2:  Similes

·       Simile Creation (handout)

·       Talk about HOW to do the assignment.

·       Do one as a model.

·       Fifteen minutes to start the assignment—finish it (all rectangles filled completely) by classtime tomorrow

Writing Assignment #2:  Letter

1.      Create a final draft of your Letter.

2.     Print a clean copy, and sign it.

3.     Draw a picture, or color a picture for your first-grader.

4.     Print a coloring sheet for your first-grader (something you think he/she would enjoy).

5.     Hand in EVERYTHING to me again at the END of the block!

a.     Kid’s letter

b.     Your rough draft

c.     Your final draft

d.     Your coloring sheet

e.     Your kid’s coloring sheet

f.      DO NOT PANIC IF YOU ARE NOT QUITE FINISHED!  WE HAVE FIFTEEN MINUTES TOMORROW!

Homework

·       Complete the Simile Creation handout. 

AP ENGLISH

When You Come In Today

1.      Go through your Professor Foster yellow packet for both readings (“Geography” and “Season”), and NUMBER each annotation, starting with “1” (in case that’s unclear).

2.     On the front of the packet, under your name, write “Total Annotations”, write the number, and circle it.

3.     Put it on the circle table!

4.     Pick up a Frankenstein Wordle Viewing Sheet.

5.     Get ready for Magic-Time when we view the wordless!  J

6.    Let me go over the schedule for THURSDAY with you.

Frankenstein—Synthesis

·      View and discuss those Wordles!

Style Assignment (More Synthesis)

·      Translating Mary Shelley to Ernest Hemingway

o   What do we remember about minimalism?

o   What should we remind ourselves about annotation?

o   What do we know about sentence structure?

o   About diction?

o   See?  We’re synthesizing

Homework

·      Yellow packet—translating Mary Shelly to Ernest Hemingway

·      Shelby H, I uploaded the packet and directions to google docs for you.