Welcome to Creative
Writing!
Thursday,
November 1st 2012
Day Four
When You
Come In
1.
Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2.
Please print a copy of your AROUND THE BLOCK poem
to the library. (We can wait to go get
them until everyone’s printed.)
3.
You do need
your computer today, but once the tardy bell rings, please put it away.
Vital Information About
Class
2.
Take the oath of I-promise-I'll-never-come-in-and-ask-you-"Did
we do anything when I was absent yesterday?" :-)
Writing
Lesson Review
1.
Clichés--page 12—what are
they? Why are they bad for our writing?
2.
Everyone share his/her best
anti-cliché. Does it meet the following
criteria?
a. It has to make sense! (be
true)
b. It has to be original.
c. It has to put a picture
in our heads!
Writing
Lesson Review: Clichés, Part II
1.
Skim and scan pages 13-14, and do the following.
(10:18-10:22)
a.
Put a question
mark by clichés you don’t understand,
b.
Put a smiley by
ones you like (even though they’re cliché).
c.
Put a check-mark
by the ones you’ve heard gazillions of times.
2.
NOW: Pair-share your responses. (10:27-10:31)
3.
I’ll explain any that are still unclear.
So What Have We Done the First Four Days of Class?
·
…wrote a poem.
·
…wrote a story.
·
…had a writing lesson.
·
…worked in Word and on google drive.
·
…read Earthbook.
·
…began with the end in mind—PORTFOLIO!
Revision: Around the Block Poem
1.
Print a copy of
your original to the library. DONE
2.
Now I’m going to
show you FOUR WAYS I want you to revise this poem. You’re going to work on this poem in FOUR
WAYS to make it a stronger piece of writing than it is right now.
3.
You have
to show your work on your original draft by marking it up.
4.
FIRST: Open your first
draft on your google drive.
5.
NEXT:
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?
6.
Check out what happens in “File”, “See Revision
History”!
7.
When I call time, share this document with me (“Kerrie
Willis”).
8.
Put your marked-up first draft in the drawer for a daily
grade.
Homework
·
Print a paper
copy of your Halloween Fiction Story--first block only! (due by tardy bell Friday; you get “zero”
points if you come without it.)
1st Block is reading aloud in groups of four
(verbal comments at end of story).
2nd Block is sharing them on google docs
(quiet reading and typing comments).
NOTE: In first block especially, we had computer issues with printing, etc. Some of what's listed above for revising the Around the Block poem we did not get to, so that will appear again in Friday's or Monday's agenda.
Reading
for College
Day Four
November
1, 2012
When You Come In
1.
Please sign in on the clipboard.
2.
Discuss free rice progress (3,000 grains due tomorrow @
tardy bell or homework grade)
What Does a Good Reader Do?
3.
Wiki—each person read his/her post, and we made comments
and connections
a.
http://ourap.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/57874276
4.
Nabokov—“Good Readers, Good Writers”
5.
I read the first two pages aloud, and we annotated and
discussed as we went.
6.
The class had twenty-five minutes to read and annotate
pages 3, 4 and 5 during quiet, individual reading time.
These questions might help with your annotations:
1.
What advice does he give his freshmen about being good
readers?
2.
What beliefs does he have about what makes a good writer?
3.
What differentiates a major writer from a minor one?
4.
Every time you see a metaphor, flag it with an “M”! J
5.
Box
words you don’t know.
Homework
1.
Finish annotating Nabokov, if necessary.
2.
3,000 grains of rice on free rice—make sure you’re playing
in our class group!
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