Welcome to Creative Writing!
Happy Friday!—February 1, 2013
When You Come In
Ø Please
initial next to your name on the clipboard.
Work Reminders for Today:
1) Please send ONE person only down to the media center that last five minutes of the block to pick up printouts.
2) If you listen to music, grooveshark, etc, set it to play, and let it go. Do not spend work time searching for music, chickadees.
Focus for the
Day: DICTION!
(60 minutes)
Writing Assignment:
Death of Language (page 19)
1)
Grab a
dictionary.
2)
Grab the list
of words you already have started on notebook paper.
3)
Find at
least twenty words you want to keep for Death of Language.
4)
Review the
models on page 19, as well as the examples below, then start typing your
assignment—all twenty words and your thoughtful, creative, lawyerly reasons for
keeping each word.
5)
By Monday—all twenty words are due, typed, and
in the same format as you see in the examples on page 19
Here are some rough examples of what a detailed answer could
look like for this assignment:
2nd BLOCK!
To scrump: Imagine how
fun it would be to call someone a “scrumper”. The word itself is just fun to
say. I’d like to be able to insult someone, but not terribly. I’m
going to want to steal from other villages to survive after the apocalypse, so
I need to know how to SCRUMP.
3rd Block
Brotherhood: I picked it because the word doesn’t
just mean your brother; it can be friendship, too. The people you play sports
with can become your brotherhood. It’s
love between two men that doesn’t have a romantic component. When you have chemistry, and you know your
teammate will do whatever it takes, and you can count on each other,
that’s brotherhood. Someone in your brotherhood will never let
you down.
4th Block
Family: I’d keep this
word because it has many meanings:
closeness, best friends, together, happiness, trust, love, and
strength. The word makes me think of the
time I pushed my brother off the pool, and he dragged me in with him. I think of all the vacations and road
trips—we were all together. Now that my
brothers are at college, I realize how important it was to be together.
Due Date:
·
Monday,
printed and picked up by the time the tardy bell rings
25 Minutes
Wrting Experiment #7
Directions
1.
Select ONE
of the following as your writing prompt.
2.
Type for
between 1 ¼ and 2 pages, doublespaced.
3.
Use strong
diction.
4.
Show with
the five senses, as well as tell.
5.
Paragraph
for clarity.
DUE DATE: Printed
and ready to hand in by the tardy bell Monday
No comments:
Post a Comment