Welcome to
Creative Writing!
11/12/2012--Day
Eleven
When You Come In
1.
Sign
in, please.
2.
Put
your Earliest Memory Paragraph-to-Poem in the drawer IF you didn’t do that
Friday.
3.
Pick
up one of the little rectangles of index card of the sign-in table.
Notes
and Reminders
1.
Thank you for sharing your cliché trio stories! Those were fun to listen to!
2.
Don’t put anything in the Creative Writing folder/collection on google
docs, unless you want everyone in the class to be able to view and edit it.
3.
Never use a lower case “i” for “I”—ever.
Housekeeping Item—Another Big Idea Reminder
· Acceptable Material
· (Take notes on the inside front cover of your binder.)
1. profanity—a little goes a LOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG way!
2. Explicit sex
3. Racial slurs
4. Promoting drug or alcohol use
5. Slander- Talking bad about someone else. (Bullying)
6. “Gay or retarded”
7. Explicate violence
8. Encouragement to break laws
Writing Lesson Review
1. Avoid clichés.
2. Diction = Word Choice
3. Use precise, exact, specific
words (not generic terms, or relative terms).
4. Use your red Vocabulary
Variety sheet! Let’s take a look at
several different categories, and see how one word can make a difference.
One word can put an image in your reader’s mind.
I’m explaining
this assignment NOW, but you’re not going to do it until AFTER you do the
writing experiment. I don’t want to
interrupt you later to tell you about it.
J
Portfolio Reminder at Day 11--Portfolio orange pages (27-32)—read and annotate.
1.
Read as many pages as you
can in the time I give you.
2.
Annotate, five marks in
the margins per page:
a.
questions
b.
comments
c.
clarifications
d.
summaries
e.
reminder notes
f.
ideas for your own
portfolio
3. We’ll discuss your
annotations as a class today, towards the end of the block.
4. You will turn in
your annotated pages at the end of the block for a daily grade
Writing
Experiment #4--I Am a Russian Tailor
Thirty Minutes (Ten to explain and
model; twenty to type)
Here's the assignment:
1.
Write a poem about yourself
that is filled with lies.
2.
Try to make up creative,
dramatic lies, rather than saying things such as “I have two cats” or “I love
chocolate pudding.”
3.
Your Writing Task:
Write a poem that is a series of creative, dramatic lies!
4.
Don’t worry about what
order you put stuff in—just type/write the lies as fast as you can!
Some Examples of Lines
· My brain is in my
foot. I can’t think when I step on it.
· I died last night.
· I have over-acted
worse than Tom Cruise.
· I created air—every
time you breathe, you owe me ten cents.
Reminders
1. NO
BODILY FUNCTIONS! Please, and thank you!
2. JUST WRITE,
LINE AFTER LINE, LIE AFTER LIE!
3. YOU WILL
HAVE THE CHANCE TO REVISE LATER THIS WEEK:
a. Order
b. Adding
details
c. Deleting
stuff
Here’s
a model:
Money Grows on Trees
I eat no meat whatsoever.
I eat salad for a living it’s all I can
find.
When I sneeze pigeons come out my nose.
I love it when bull sharks snack on my
leg meat.
Washington schools are nice and brand
spanking new. I love them.
This is Sparta.
Tonight I will dine in hell.
I shot the sheriff.
I am so happy that pigs can fly.
I taught them last week.
My house is made of ginger bread and
candy cane.
I run a Columbian drug cartel.
I lay eggs in my kitchen sink.
I invented the wheel and sliced bread.
London Bridge fell down last week.
I have two left feet and one is a
sausage.
My blood is cherry flavored.
I have a son named Damien.
Two plus two equals chicken.
Alex Meyer
Workshop Time
· “I Am a Russian
Tailor” (2o minutes)
· Type your best line
on the google drive document in our class folder.
· NOW Bag your computer—we’re done with
it for today.
· Read and annotate portfolio
pages (10 minutes)
·
Discuss orange pages you
read.
o Begin with the end in mind.
o So, what are your questions, based on what you read so far?
o What are helpful reminders you read?
With Me
at My Desk
1. Advise me about your
six-word memoirs. (Done in first block;)
Reading for College
Day 11
November 12, 2012
When You
Come In
· Please sign in on the clipboard.
· Please turn in your Minimalism reflection to the drawer.
Minimalism Wrap-Up
· Timeline presentations
Combined Discussion and Note-Taking of Key Ideas
1. “Popular Mechanics” was written in the 1970s.
(Research needed here)
a. Why has the minimalist style might have developed in the 1970s
and remained popular in contemporary times.
b. Why was writing that is short, simple, and straightforward
(i.e., “minimal”) appealing particularly to readers in the 1970s.
2. Important BIG PICTURE IDEA:
a. Literature develops from the writing that came before it.
b. What does this mean?
3. Writers are also influenced by the styles of their literary
predecessors.
4. “Less is more.”
5.
“Tell it like it
is.”
6. Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory
Note
about Focus, Starting Tomorrow--
Backbone Literature
·
Greek Mythology (main focus)
·
The Bible
·
Fairy Tales
·
Proverbs
After Lunch Work
1. Hand in for Daily Grades
a. “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” annotations (minimum of 25
annotations, 5 per page)
b. Story Organizer over “ACWP”
2. Six-Word Memoirs
a. Browse the website for a few minutes to remind yourself what they
are.
b. Type three six-word memoirs on the following topics
i. Reading
ii. Minimalism
iii. senior year
c. Enter them on the spreadsheet in our class folder: "Six-Word Memoirs CPR"
3. Complete the “Yours” story reading and annotating.
4. Complete the two-paragraph essay for homework, and share it with me
on google drive (“Kerrie Willis”) by 11:20 Tuesday.
5. Complete the wiki assignment here:
http://ourap.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/58245154 (Posting due by 11:20)
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