Welcome
to Creative Writing!
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Happy Friday! (Day Five)
When You Come In
1.
Please initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2.
You do need your computers today.
Writing
Experiment #1 (10:05-10:25)
1. Sign on to google drive.
2. Click on the red square that says "Create", then
"Document".
3. Head your paper with the MLA format, then start typing your
writing experiment (directions below).
Writing
Experiment #1
1. Select
ONE of the following choices to write about.
2. Type for the full
twenty minutes. (doublespace, please)
3. Print to the
Media Center, but do NOT go get it.
DUE:
in the drawer, when our twenty minutes is up
#1:
Spilled Popcorn
What’s
the worst movie you’ve seen recently? Imagine you’re a film critic and write
a couple of paragraphs tearing this movie to shreds.
#2:
I’m Grateful
Even the
dreariest, most awful weeks aren’t bad twenty-four hours a day. Think of
a few things that have happened this week that you’re grateful for.
#3:
Breaking Up
Woody
Allen once said,
“It’s
better to be the leaver than the leavee.”
Do you
agree? Would you rather dump someone than get dumped yourself?
Which do you think is more painful?
No one
will read this one but me.
At 10:25
1.
Doublespace
your writing experiment #1.
2.
Send
your Writing Experiment to the printer.
3.
PRINT
Two-Sided (front/back)! J
4.
If
you do NOT have your computer enabled to print yet, share your document with
me. But LATER THIS BLOCK, go see Mrs.
Hippen so you can get enabled on the library printer.
Group Sharing Record—HALLOWEEN FICTION STORIES!
Here’s What I’m
Looking At:
1.
Kindness
and respect to others
2.
Equal
time for each person to share and to speak
3.
Quality
comments
4.
Focused
Time‑on‑task
Directions for
How to Share:
1.
Reader#1: read your story aloud, slowly, after saying
the title.
2.
Everyone
else: look, lean, and listen
respectfully.
3.
Everyone
make TWO POSITIVE COMMENTS directly to the reader, when he/she is finished
reading.
4.
Repeat
for readers #2, 3, and 4! J
Modifications for
Sharing on google drive
Share your story
with the TWO other people who are your partners.
Things We Can
Comment On
1. How’s my ending? Satisfying?
2. How’s the plot (events)?
3. How’s my word choice?
4. Do I have enough detail?
5. What’s your favorite part?
6. Conflict?
7. Setting?
8. Characters?
9. Title?
10.Suspenseful?
11.Vivid detail--using five senses?
12.Avoiding clichés?
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When You Finish/Come Back from Sharing
1. Share your Halloween Fiction Story with me now on google drive: “Kerrie Willis”.
2. Fill out the bottom of your group sharing sheet.
3. Drop it in the drawer.
Please and thank you! J
4. Keep your Halloween Fiction Story in your binder. (We’ll do something official with it Monday.)
5. Now pick up where you left off yesterday revising your Around the
Block Poem (directions in blue below).
Revision: Around
the Block Poem (Finish Steps w/Your Best Work)
1.
You have to show your work on your original draft by marking it
up in the four ways listed on the orange handout.
2.
Open your first draft on your
google drive.
3.
Revise your first draft, making at least ten changes.
a.
Four ways (changes you marked on paper copy)
b.
Vocabulary Variety sheet (red)
c.
Anything you want to add, subtract, or substitute
d.
Title—Is it a knockout? Is it as
strong as it can be?
4.
Check out what happens in “File”, “See
Revision History”!
5.
When I call time, share this
document with me (“Kerrie Willis”).
6.
Put your marked-up first draft in
the drawer for a daily grade.
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