Monday, 1/7/2013

CREATIVE WRITING

Monday—1/7/2013

Days Left in the Term = 5 (including today)

When You Come In

1.      Please sign in.

2.     Please open your book to page 52.

Take a look at the Big Picture. 

Big Ideas for the Week (Next Five Days)

1.       Showing, Not Just Telling

2.      Diction—Have that Vocabulary Variety sheet out every day!  

3.      Revision!

Review—Quickety-Quick!

1.      Difference between “literal” and “figurative” language (p. 52)

2.     Diction (Sandra Cisneros; p. 52)

3.     Vocabulary Variety

4.     Imagery (Emily Bronte)--page 53

5.     Imagery (Hot Chocolate Sentence)--page 54

Writing Lesson:  Alliteration

·       Notes:  Page 55

2^nd Block

Writing Assignment:  Sense Poem

1.      Type your poem.

2.     Use your red sheet, and make it great!

3.     Create a title.

4.     Create a great last line!

5.     DO NOT PRINT!  Just share it with my on google drive!  Thank you!

When You Finish Your Sense Poem and Have Shared It With Me

1.      Pull up each Portfolio Revision (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5), and make sure you’ve made at least ten changes to each one to make it stronger.

2.     These MUST EACH be saved in the appropriate folder on google drive for me to check.

3.     Edit it thoroughly.  Eliminate grammar and punctuation errors.

4.     Print it when it is ready for peer conferencing (front/back as needed).

I’m going to STOP you at 10:55 to do the peer conference over the Perfect Moment.

Now

1.  Bag your computer.  We are done with it for today.

2.  If you were here FRIDAY and completed a ROUGH DRAFT of the Perfect Moment, get it off the heater now.

3.  Also, pick up the TWO handouts that are on the wooden chair.

4.  Return to your seats, and we’ll review how to do the peer conference.  J

Homework

1.      PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

2.     REVISIONS on PORTOFLIO PIECES #1-5; do you have AT LEAST TEN IMPORTANT CHANGES to each one?

3.     Do you have at least TWO printed for peer conferencing tomorrow?

1^st Block

Writing Assignment:  Sense Poem Revision (p. 61)

1.     Read the directions, and discuss the models.

2.     Get a copy of the rubric, and review it with me.  What are you attempting to perfect in the final draft?

3.     Review my comments on your first draft.

4.     Create a revised, final draft of the Sense Poem.

5.     Print a final copy.  This is YOUR copy to use in your portfolio.

6.     Share the final copy with me.

7.     Thoughtfully complete the rubric, and place it in the drawer.

COLLEGE-PREP READING

Monday

1/7/2013

Homework Due

1.      Put your name in big letters on the tops of the character page(s) for pages 31-64, then put them on the heater, please.  I’ll have them back to you in a jiffy!

2.     Regarding your annotations over all assigned pages:  I will take up your ENTIRE novella on TuesdayWednesday to assess your annotations.  This will be a major homework grade.

Quick-Write #3:  Freedom and Entrapment (page 17; #2)

·       We will NOT pair-share this entry, but I would like to read it, so please place it in the drawer when complete.

·       Start @ 11:23; end @ 11:33

Quiz:  Pages 31-64 of Mango

·       Take as much time as you need to give full, detailed answers.

·       Bring me your quiz when you’re done, and pick up the last section of the novel.

Independent, Quiet Work Time--When You Finish the Quiz

(You have from now until lunch at 12:03.)

Read and annotate the last section of the book—please and thank-you!

Announcements:

1.      This section is due read and annotated by WEDNESDAY (quiz).

2.     Vocab War—it has begun!

Now:

·       Whole-Class Discussion—questions, motifs, big picture, clarifications of any and all kinds

·       We MUST pass papers back today.  The pile is quite horrifying….  L

Homework

1.      Study your vocabulary words for fifteen minutes.

2.     Read and annotate HALF the last section of Mango.  (You must have all pages read and annotated by Wednesday.)