Welcome to
Creative Writing!
11/15/2012--Day
Fourteen
(Iowa
Assessment Schedule)
When
You Come In
1.
Please sign in.
2. Get your manila folder off the table.
3. Do a folder log-in as you get your pieces
back.
1. Six-Word Memoirs (3)
2. Holiday Cheer/Big Event
(WE#3)
3. Earliest Memory
Paragraph to Poem (only half the class)
4. Free-Write #1 (last
time)
5. Halloween Story
(last time)
6. Cliché Story (last
time)
7. WE#1
Grateful/Popcorn/Leavee (last time)
8. Around the Block
Poem
Block 2 = 1:15-2:15
Block 4 = 2:20-3:20
Writing
Lesson—Diction = WORD CHOICE
1. Big Questions:
a. What is diction?
b. Why is it important?
c. What happens to words
over time?
d. What does using
precise adjectives have to do with diction? (review)
e. What does avoiding
clichés have to do with diction? (review)
2. A Bunch of.... (page 17)
3. Two minutes—match up
as many as you can on your own
4. Two minutes--work with
a partner.
5. Let’s see how we
did! J
Writing
Assignment: Death of Language (page 21)
1. Put a big ol’ “X”
through page 20. That’s my old copy of
the assignment
2. Explanation of
assignment
3. Discussion of “A”
models
4. Why you’re using
dictionaries for this assignment
5. Workshop time =
Friday
6. Due Date = Monday!
With Me
at My Desk
· Read me your Earliest
Memory Poem aloud.
· Select between your
Journal #1 and your WE#5 for me to read and comment on.
Homework
· Death
of Language (due Monday)
·
Journal #2 (due Monday)
COLLEGE-PREP READING
College-Prep Reading
Day 14
November 15, 2012
When You
Come In
1. Please sign in on the clipboard.
Explanation of and Assignments for the Next Few
Days
Facebook Activities
· People you should friend are on the blog (links).
· Thank you to those of you who have posted your page.
· If you have NOT posted your page, you need to complete that
ASAP. This activity will be most
meaningful if we have ALL SIXTEEN FIGURES!
· Activities due by Monday are as follows:
Homework: Facebook!
1. Friend everyone’s myth page with your myth page persona.
2. Using your Greek Myth Persona (putting on a fictional mask, and
speaking as that person/figure), do all the following WITH SUBSTANCE AND
ACCURACY:
a. Post on four people’s walls
b. Comment on three other people’s pictures.
c. Complete all family connections.
d. Perform three other actions of your choice!
e. Post two status updates.
Myth Barbie Assignment (pages 10-13)
1. Overview
2. Questions?
3. I am going to have pink pages for you to use in class TOMORROW. You may use these as one of your sources.
4. Barbies are due MONDAY.
5. Now, tell me who you want from the choices I have. If you nominated this person on the wiki, you
have dibs.
Block 3 = 11:35-1:10
Block 2 = 1:15-2:15
Block 4 = 2:20-3:20
Backbone Literature
·
Greek Mythology
Backbone Literature
1. Keep listening and looking now for resonances, echoes, patterns.
2.
What is the Purpose of Myth? (From What a Beast!)
a. To explain how things came to be—like the origin of the universe
or the creation of humans
b. To teach people about the values and beliefs that are important in
their society
c. To contain deep religious significance to the people who tell and
believe them
3.
Important of Beasts and Creatures
a. Represented evil in conflicts between good and bad
b. Gave mortals the chance to slay them and become heroes
c. Offered so many answers and explanations for disasters such as
shipwrecks and volcanoes.
4.
What are the stories that will emerge? Mythology is about the story.
Viewing: Myth Beasts/Creatures Slideshows
· We will continue
merrily along!
Foundational
Reading
Professor Foster: How to
Read Literature Like a Professor
· Introduction: “How’d He Do That?
· Read, and
annotate. Make at least fifteen
annotations, total. Remember, you have a
wide variety of reasons to annotate.
· Start in class; finish
on your own for tomorrow.
· Hand it in to Mr.
Collins tomorrow when class starts. It’s
a homework grade, so give it to him when the tardy bell rings, or not at all.
Other Homework, Due Monday
1. Get 200 index cards (Color and size are your choice.) by classtime
Monday, please.
2. Myth Barbie
3. Myth Facebook Activities
Facebook Links
Please tell me ASAP if I have your name or your link wrong!
KW
UPDATED THURSDAY, 8:50PM
Aphrodite (Brittany)
Apollo (Clay)
Ares (Allan)
Artemis (Zuleyma)
Athena (Christina)
Cronus (Sarah.)
Gaea (Kaitlin)
Hera (Keri)
Hermes (Jenny)
Poseidon (Lauren)
Rhea (Bridget)
Zeus (Logan)
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