CREATIVE WRITING
When You Come In
1. Please sign in.
2. Please pick up the final unit for your textbook: Showing, Not Just Telling
3. Make sure you’ve followed all directions at the bottom of the Autobiographical Poem Rubric.
4. You do NOT need an iBook right now.
5. If you’ve been absent, don’t ask me questions about items right now, please. Come see me during seminar.
Due Today
· Autobio Poem with Rubric (directions at bottom of rubric)
Big Ideas for the Week
· Showing, Not Just Telling
· Diction—Have that Vocabulary Variety sheet out every day!
· Days Remaining in Term 3 = 13 (not including last two days for finals)
Reflection
· Unit 3—get prepared for what we’re working on the next two weeks. (page 51)
Big Screen Notes (Imagery and Diction)
1. Difference between “literal” and “figurative” language (p. 52)
2. Least Vivid to Most Vivid (p. 52)
3. Diction (Sandra Cisneros; p. 52)
4. Vocabulary Variety—We took this page out and put it at the first of the new section of our textbook--we'll be using it a lot with this unit!
Writing Assignment (Imagery and Diction)
· Sense Poem (page 60)
Writing Workshop (22 minutes for page 60, then typing)
1. Sense Poem: Fill out page 60, then create a thoughtful first draft, using Vocabulary Variety.
2. Print a hard copy, and I’ll send someone over in a bit to pick them up at 9:15.
3. IF YOU FINISH EARLY, PLEASE READ YOUR ORANGE PORTFOLIO PAGES, OR GO THROUGH YOUR GOOGLE DOCS PORTFOLIO FOLDER AND START REVISING AND EDITING PIECES YOU THINK YOU’LL PUT IN YOUR PORTFOLIO.
At 3:00: Organization
· Paper pass-back and folder log-in.
3:10: Writing Assignment and Homework (Imagery and Diction)
1. Answerless Questions (pages 58-9)
2. Start now.
3. Complete #s 2-8 for tomorrow.
4. Your answers have to look at least as detailed as the example for #1 to receive credit.
5. Drop them in the drawer when you come to class tomorrow, please. I’ll check them, and we’ll discuss them FRIDAY.
Homework
· Answerless Questions #2-8
· Portfolio
Advanced Creative Writing
When You Come In
1. Please sign in.
2. Keep your homework with you!
3. You do NOT need an iBook.
Homework Due (I will call you back LATER one at a time to look at and discuss your homework—thanks!)
1. Short Story Proposal Completed
2. 1 ½ pages of story (any part of it, including notes) typed
Short Story Discussion Review
1. point of view (pages 68-69).
2. how to create three-dimensional characters (page 70).
Short Story Discussion--Character
1. Ways to Get to Know Your Character (p. 72)
2. Facebook character sketches
3. Start working on one of these for your main character.
Short Story Discussion--Dialogue
1. Pair up to read, discuss, and complete the Focus on Dialogue worksheets on pages 74-5.
2. Pair up to read, discuss, and complete the “You Talkin’ to Me?” quiz on page 76.
3. Come back together as a class to discuss answers.
4. What makes a dialogue scene? We’ll read and discuss the model, Building a Scene with Dialogue (p. 77).
a. Tiffany and Emily DONE :D
b. Ryan and Maddie DONE!
c. Angelic and Dosha DONE XD
d. Shelby and Haley and Bryton done
e. Shannon and Gavin DONE >:D
f. Dana and AdamDONE ;D
Writing Workshop (thirty minutes)/Extending to Homework
1. Complete one facebook character sketch fully (all required blanks completed).
2. Create one dialogue scene between two of the characters in your story, one-half page or more.
At 1:00
· Paper pass-back and folder log-in! Oh, joy!
At 1:05-ish
Tomorrow, we are going to walk to the Public Library to check out children’s books.
· We will eat at Subway?
Friday
· We will go to Stewart and meet and interview our writing buddies!
· Bring a sack lunch, because we will be there from 11:30 until 1:05.
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