Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Creative Writing!

When You Come In

·       Please staple the Journal #1 handout to the top of your journal, then put it in the drawer.

·       Please sign in.

·       Grab an iBook.

Writing Lesson Review

·       Why are clichés evil (or just bad from your writing)?

·       Go on a cliché hunt, following the directions on the blog.

·       You will create a google doc where you can copy and past the clichés

·       Fifteen minutes to work!

Collaborative Writing Assignment

·       Group Cliché Story Models

·       Group Cliché Story Requirements (page 15)

·       _______—Started

·       Twenty minutes in--Progress check

·       Thirty-five minutes total work time—stop for today

Writing Assignment

Writing Experiment #3:  Earliest Memory

·       Kindergarten

·       Pre-School or 4-ish

·       Earlier?

Homework

·       None

ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING 

When You Come In

1.      Please sign in on the 3^rd Block clipboard.

Poetry Reminder

·       Poetry Elements (on google docs)

·       Check out the big list we made 1/18/12.  Do we have anything to add today?  

Writing Experiment

“What I Did on a Rainy Day” (p. 7)

1.      Look at May Swenson’s model.  What poetic elements is she using in her poem?  How is she using them?

2.     Now you type a poem, “What I Did on a ________ __________”.

o   Do what Swenson does!  

§  Paint an image in reader’s head

§  Use alliteration.

§  Focus on nature.

o   Fifteen lines minimum

o   Spacing up to you

o   MLA format for heading

o   Twenty minutes (from 11:43-12:03 plus five minutes after lunch to finish)

After Lunch

·       5 more minutes to finish “What I Did on a _________ _________”

Robot Writing Assignment (12:39-12:44)

1.      Get a Class Poem Packet.

2.     Create a new google doc.

3.     Type in the lines YOU wrote for each Class Poem.

4.     Don’t do any revision whatsoever!  J  (That’s for tomorrow.)

5.     Name it, “Revised Class Poem—Your Name”

Poetry Sharing  (We will start today; if we run short on time, or if we burn out, we fill finish tomorrow.)

1.       “Ten Definitions of Poetry” modeled after Carl Sandburg

Organization

·       Papers back

·       Log in to folders

·       Get handout for first weekly conference.

·       Go over it, and be ready tomorrow.

Homework

·       None, if you are prepared for your Weekly Conference #1