Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

CREATIVE WRITING

Writing Experiment #6:  This I Believe, or Making a Comeback


Directions:  

1. Sign in to google docs.
2. Go to our Creative Writing class folder.  
3. Read the document with the same name as the assignment.  
4. Follow the directions.
5. Turn it in.

Collaborative Writing:  Class Poem #1

1. Sign in to google docs.
2. Go to our Creative Writing class folder.  
3. Read the document with the same name as the assignment.  
4. Arrange with the other people who were absent to get together for half an hour and complete this assignment.
5. Follow the directions for the assignment.
6. Turn it in.

Advanced Creative Writing

When You Come In

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

2.     Do NOT get an iBook yet! 

3.     Type your name under “Sharing” if you want to read your “Hurtling Towards Cereal Bowl” aloud today.

Big Word for the Week = DICTION!  (Big Word for Next Week = MEMOIR)

Banished Words List--Group

·       Share these ten out with the whole class.

·       Select ONE word you will submit as an individual (probably one of the words from your individual list) to the Lake Superior State University Banished Word List for 2013 (on line).

·       Print a copy of the submission form BEFORE you submit, so I can see that you are doing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nni0rTLg5B8&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

Trio Discussion and Creation:  Alternate Word Meanings (page 47)—top half of page only!

1.      Five minutes to finish working  11:43-11:48

2.     Type them on google docs, and save them in the google docs folder for class.

3.     11:48:  Share out!

AFTER LUNCH

Organization

·       Week Two Conference with Me

Reading and Writing Lessson:  Diction AND Memoir

Yes, I’m combining the big word for the week with the big word for next week.

1.      12:31-12:46:  Browse for fifteen minutes:  http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

2.     12:46-1:01:  On google docs, create and type five six-word memoirs of your own.  Print them, and throw them in the drawer.

12:57:  Brain Pain:  Missing Halves

This was tough!

Sharing:  Diction Writing Experiment

·       "Hurtling Towards Cereal Bowl...." (p. 2).

·       Shelby—DONE!

Homework:  Timed Writing Journal

1.      Type for twenty minutes on EITHER of the following choices:

a.     Option 1:  My Animal (page 34)

b.     Option 3:  Oh Yeah?  Oh Yeah? (page 34)

2.     Save it, print it FRONT/BACK, then put it in the drawer tomorrow.