Welcome to Creative Writing!
Happy Thursday—January 31, 2013
Two-Hour Delay Schedule (Snow and Ice)
When You Come In
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Please put WE#6 face-down
on the podium. Thank you!
Sharing: Remaining
Cliché Trio Stories
Ø 2nd: Brett and Eric
Ø 4th: None
Writing Lesson #4:
Connotation versus Denotation
1)
Get out your Vocabulary Variety sheet, and look at the pairs you
picked out--words that are synonyms, but that create different images in your
mind.
2)
Think about which one sounds more positive, and which one sounds
more negative. (Not all pairs will work
in this way, but we’ll take a look at a few.)
a.
Sweet and sugary
b.
Crowded and cluttered
c.
Squawk and screech
d.
Trot and gallop
e.
Rotund and chubby
f.
Unripe and raw
g.
Sulfur and butterscotch
h.
Oily and buttery
3)
“Overweight”
(loaded word)—spectrum from positive to negative
4)
Connotation versus Denotation—“Booger” Discussion
Writing Lesson Practice, Activity 1
What Are You Suggesting? (page 21)
1.
You’re going to attack this assignment with a partner I’ve
selected for you.
2.
Use your Vocab Variety sheet for help, as needed.
Reminders About Your Work with Your Partner
and About Your Responses
1.
Be appropriate and kind.
2.
We’ll share out with the whole class.
MORE
POSITIVE MORE NEGATIVE
Brilliant examples from class:
1.
Deafening ear-splitting
2.
Aromatic perfumed
3.
Fragrant aromatic
4.
Fragrant pungent
5.
Cold icy
6.
Bookish nerdy
7.
Transparent
clear
8.
Whisper murmur
9.
Fuzzy hairy
10.
Speechless mute
11.
Tangy vinegary
12.
Cinnamon ginger
13.
Smart intelligent
14.
To creep To
stalk
15.
Glowing bright
16.
Sneaky creepy
17.
Fragile tender
18.
Petite Tiny
19.
Hilarious funny
20. Unique Goofy
21.
Creative Imaginative
22.
Arrogant Stuck-up
23.
Sandy Gritty
24. Intelligent Smart
25.
Shout Yell
26. Scorching Flaming
27.
Dull Boring
28. Bland Tasteless
29. Energetic Hyper
30. To deteriorate To Rot
Last Five Minutes
1. Review expectations for
tomorrow.
2. Create an “A” answer together as a class for one of the Death of Language Words you’ve already chosen as one of your twenty.
Writing Assignment:
Death of Language (page 19)
1)
Explanation of assignment
2)
Discussion of “A” models
3)
Why you’re using dictionaries for this assignment
4)
Workshop time = Twenty full minutes right now to browse the
dictionary
5)
Today—Come up with one solid “A” answer as a class, so we know what
we’re shooting for tomorrow!
6)
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”.
I’d like to be able to insult someone, but not terribly.The word itself
is just fun to say. 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.
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