Welcome to
Creative Writing!
11/20/2012--Day
Seventeen
Happy
Tuesday!
When You Come In
1. Please sign in.
2.
Get your page 18 and your
notebook paper from yesterday off the heater!
Reminders
1.
Homework is
due at the tardy bell, or not at all.
2.
If you are
here when an assignment is given, it’s due when you return.
3.
If you are
absent the date the assignment is due, it’s due the day you come back, by the
tardy bell.
4.
If you’re
turning in an assignment after the due date, you have to put on the top why I
should accept it. Were you absent, etc?
5.
If you miss
a daily grade, you have TWO days to make it up, per the student handbook.
6.
E-mail me
with a question about your grade. I can
research it and get back to you. I
simply cannot stop what I’m doing in class to check things like that.
7.
Try three
before me: big screen, blog, a neighbor.
Sharing
1. How did diction affect your writing of the six-word memoirs?
2. Share one of yours aloud now for claps.
3. Please and thank you!
Writing
Lesson: Surprise, it’s about diction
again.
1. Remember how we said
some words are loaded, that they have baggage, that they have CONNOTATIONS that
have to do with our own personal associations?
2. Well, turn to page
24, to “Playing with Words”, then take a look at the examples I have on the big
screen. Do you see how people are basing
their choices on the CONNOTATIONS of the words, instead of the DENOTATIONS?
3. I’m going to give
you five minutes to fill in as many words as you can. You CAN USE any of the twenty words you
listed for Death of Language.
4. We’ll share out our
best word from each category.
5. Feel free to borrow! Once you write them down, they’re yours to
keep and use! ;-)
Writing
Experiment
· Ghosts, Monsters and
Bullies (poem)
Ghosts,
Monsters and Bullies
Writing
Experiment #6
What did you fear when you
were young?
·
Spiders?
·
The dark?
·
Zombies
·
The vacuum
·
Clowns
Tell me one thing you
remember fearing when you were young:
·
Heights
·
Shadows
·
Clowns (2)
·
Freddy Krueger
·
Tight spaces
·
Semis
·
Snakes (2)
·
The Beast
·
Bees
·
The dark (2)
·
The ghosts in
the basement
·
Boogey-man
·
Birds
·
Monster under
my bed
·
Teachers
·
Staying inside
at recess
ASSIGNMENT: Write
a poem about one of your childhood fears.
What I want you to do (fifteen minutes):
1.
Type a poem that tells a story about a
time you were afraid as a child.
2.
Type it/save it in google docs (your
own personal folder).
3.
Use MLA format for heading.
Notes:
·
Try to get at least twenty lines.
·
This poem will be read by ONE other
person in this room.
Work Time = scant 20 minutes
Note: Oftentimes a story or poem begins by
answering a question. Some questions
make you want to write more than others.
Five Minutes—Read, Question and Comment
o
I
will assign you a partner.
1. Share your poem with that
person on google docs.
2. Carefully read your partner’s
poem.
3. TYPE FIVE QUESTIONS you have about
what’s happening in the poem.
4. Make two positive comments.
5. Make any editing corrections
(cosmetic stuff) that you see need it.
If you don’t
finish in class, this is homework.
College-Prep Reading
Day 17
November 20, 2012
When You
Come In
1. Please sign in on the clipboard.
2. Due: Myth Connections (on
the wiki)
Gods and Goddesses
About half the class presented their Barbies. See my notes for catch-up:
Olympians and a Few Titans
1. We got our facebook myth flashcard, and we held them up in front of
us.
2. We circled up, facing each other, and we took turns making
connections with a variety of other people in the circle.
3. We clarified some relationships, and we told some stories about our
Olympian or Titan.
4. We came back to the room, and we took some notes over the Olympians
and Titans, to solidify our thinking.
Mythology, Big Picture
· We looked at several people’s wiki posts to see what connections
people were making thus far, and what we still want to learn about:
a. The Trojan War
b. The Creation Story
c. A Family Tree
Homework for Tuesday, 11/27
1. Read and annotate Professor Foster’s chapter 9, “It’s Greek to
Me.”
a. Make a MINIMUM of fifteen annotations.
b. Read with your computer at your side, and Wikipedia the
allusions (references) you don’t know.
Annotate these look-ups on your blue packet, so I can see what you found
out, and so I can see you have some idea what Foster is referencing.
2.
Play freerice IN OUR CLASS
GROUP until you have at least 10,000 grains:
http://freerice.com/content-group/big-time-vocab-crushers
3.
Go to the wiki for the Heroes of Greek Myth assignment:
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