Welcome to
Creative Writing!
Happy Monday, November 5th, 2012
(Day Six)
When You Come In
1.
Please initial next to your name on the clipboard.
Me:
· Type up Loose Ends Checklist while you guys are going this.
· Prepare story-writing trios.
· Get folders.
· Copy log-in sheets.
Writing Lesson Review:
Clichés
1. Why are
clichés evil (or just bad for your writing)?
2. Go on a cliché
hunt, following the directions on the blog.
3. You will create
a google doc where you can copy and past the clichés.
4. You have
fifteen minutes to work!
Directions for Online Cliché Hunt
1. Create a new google doc called "Cliché List".
2. In the next fifteen minutes, browse the following sites for
clichés.
3. When you find a cliché that particularly strikes you, copy and
paste it into a google doc titled "Cliché List".
4.
You need fifteen at the end of fifteen minutes. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO NUMBER THEM.
LINKS:
Collaborative Writing Assignment
1. Group
Cliché Story Models
2. Group Cliché
Story Requirements (page 15)
3. Writing Workshop
Time
_______—Time
Started
_______—Time
Progress check
_______—Time
Another check-in!
Homework for Tuesday
· Journal #1 (handout) OR SEE BELOW:
1. I have read page 10 in my textbook about what a journal can be.
a. Here is the one statement I liked best from that page:
2. I’ve typed, doublespaced a MINIMUM of one and a half
pages on any topic of my choosing.
a. (Keep in mind “acceptable material”.)
b. I can use page 11 in my textbook for ideas, if I want to.
3. I’ve saved it, printed it FRONT/BACK, and I’ve stapled this
sheet (filled out) on top of it, then tossed it into the drawer.
My
journal is
fiction
nonfiction
poetry
combination
Reading for College
Day Six
November 5, 2012
When You
Come In
1. Please sign in on the clipboard.
2. Please clip your flashcards together, and write your name on the
top one, then turn them in.
Journal—Free
Write #1 (Title and date it, please.)
Write for a full ten minutes on any topic of your
choosing.
Me:
·
Check your vocab cards.
·
Return them to you.
Vocabulary
·
Let’s pronounce all twelve
words, and do a quick synonym check.
·
Study your words
tonight—vocab quiz Thursday.
Annotating
Reminder: How We Annotate
· We need to keep ADDING TO and REFINING WHAT we do when we
annotate, or TALK TO THE TEXT.
· If you haven’t posted here with your trio, you need to do that by
classtime tomorrow. If you were absent
Friday, I’ll help you at the end of class today.
New Unit Focus:
Minimalism! Who’s excited?! J
Thinking Prompt: What is a
“literary movement”? Can you think of
ones you talked about in American Lit or American Novel?
· Romanticism
· Transcendentalism
· Realism
· Naturalism
· Classicism
“Popular Mechanics”—short story by Raymond Carver
(started 11:53)
1. Read and annotate the story.
Make at least ten annotations—but this is only a guideline.
2. Answer questions 1-5 on a sheet of notebook paper. Use a
complete sentence or two for each one!
3. Head your paper, “Popular Mechanics” Reading Journal,
please.
4. Please play on FREE RICE until everyone in class has finished 1,
2 and 3. Make sure you’re in OUR CLASS
GROUP! J (ten-ish minutes)
When We’re All Ready
1. Discuss #1-5—any disagreements?
2. Be able to cite the text to support your point.
Tableaux
1. Get with your group, and create a tableaux.
2. Fill out your “Dramatic Tableaux” worksheet (ONE per group).
3. We’ll perform the tableaux pieces in a few minutes! Yay!
We watched and guess three tableaux today; we'll watch the rest tomorrow.
Homework
1. Vocabulary
a. Study your twelve words for the vocab
quiz Thursday.
2. “Popular Mechanics” Reading
Journal Questions
a.
Type
your ONE answers in complete, developed sentences—academic language!
b.
Say
what you want to say (what you think), and then say what the story said
(textual evidence).
c.
Answer
all parts of the question.
3. 6 = Morgan and Keri and Kaitlin B.
4. 7 = Michael and Allan and Sarah
5. 8 = Logan and Brittany and Bridget
6. 9 = Gabe and Zuleyma and Jenny
7. 10 = My model for you
8. 11 = Lauren and Kaitlin W.
9. 12 = Christina and Clay
Here’s my model for what your assignment should look/sound like:
(10)Carver’s
story was originally titled, “Mine”. When I read the story, then read the title
again, “Mine” is an obvious choice. Both parents were possessive of the child,
fighting over the baby like two kids fight over a toy, all the time yelling,
“Mine!” That title makes sense, but it doesn’t add a dimension to the story, or
make me curious. But “Popular Mechanics” is more subtle. It makes me wonder,
Why did Carver title the story this way? What could the title be referring to?
The
title of Carver’s story is “Popular Mechanics”. There’s a magazine of the same
title, and it features do-it-yourself instructions for home improvement
projects. It’s a magazine for people who like to work on things, and for people
who like to understand how things work--mechanics. The last third of the story
reminds me of a mechanical process when the parents are fighting over the baby:
“…he worked on her fisted fingers with one hand and with the other hand he
gripped the screaming baby up under an arm near the shoulder”. And the woman’s
motions sound similarly mechanical: “She caught the baby around the wrist and
leaned back.” Obviously, the ending isn’t about home improvements—it’s the
complete opposite, home destruction. And I wonder about the title every time I
read this story. I reconsider it every time. I wouldn’t do that if the title
was simply “Mine”.
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