Welcome to Creative Writing!
Wednesday, 1/16/2013
When You
Come In
1. Please initial next to your name on the clipboard.
2. Find your desk with your name sticky note on it.
3. Make sure
your name is on the homework (Earthbook/Academic Fraud worksheet) then pass it over to my
paper-catchers today! J
(I don’t take late work, so
hand it in now, or never. L)
Review from Yesterday--What can you tell me about the following:
1.
Portfolios
2.
Trust
Organization
1. Today we will all successfully sign in to our school domain
g-mail—YAY!
2. We will type and save our first assignment from there.
3. We will also
create folders called “Creative Writing 2013”, and one called “Portfolio.”
And now for a word about
using your computer as a tool, versus using it as a toy….
Writing Experiment #1--Around the Block
1. Writing
Experiment
a. It’s a first
draft.
b. Do your best
work…
c. …but don’t
agonize over it.
d. Work quickly!
e. Type your guts
out!
2. Take a look at
the requirements for this assignment.
Writing Experiment #1
Around the Block
Imagine you’re walking down a block in your
neighborhood.
Write a poem in which you describe everything you see along the
way, from puddles to pieces of trash, from lost gloves to chipped paint on the
curb.
Requirements—
1. Use the five senses
a. texture (how things feel)
b. sight
c. sound
d. taste
e. smell
2. Break it into lines
3. Do NOT rhyme.
4. Font = 12
5. Spacing = up to you (EXCEPT MLA, which has to be
doublespaced)
6. Twenty lines at
least
10:33
10:53
3. Check out the
models.
a. Models are not
perfect examples.
b. Models are
glimpses at how some people chose to approach this assignment.
4. Editing Lesson
a. MLA format for
heading
b. Required
on everything you hand in this term.
5. Organization
a. Sign
into/Create your google account.
b. We’re typing
here today, and for most of the term, so get comfortable!
6. Your assignment
will save in google drive. Make sure you name it as follows: “Last
Name—Around the Block”.
When You Finish Typing Your Poem
1. Do you have at
least twenty lines?
2. DO NOT PRINT!
1.
Once you finish typing your poem,
go back and look at the following; make any changes you want:
· Arrangement (changing
order of the lines)
· Alignment (…on the left? …centered?)
· Spacing (..single? …double?
What looks best?)
· Title (Is
it a knock-out? Does it add a dimension
to the poem?)
Now
that you have a rough draft completed, do the following:
2.
Type me a note at the
bottom of your page about two things you want me to comment on. Some possibilities include, but are not
limited to:
· Arrangement
· Imagery
· Word choice
· line breaks
· Title
· whatever you want
· For example, “KW,
please comment on my line breaks and my title.
And did I use enough detail?”
Reading
Assignment (page 6)
·
Earthbook
Time Started:
Time Ended:
What do to:
v Read and relax . (This means you read for enjoyment.)
v If you’re reading a piece, and you
stop enjoying it, turn the page!
v Find ONE piece you enjoy enough to
use for ONE of the blanks on page 6.
v Mostly I want you reading. I do not want you to complete page 6 today,
because we are going to read a little today, and little tomorrow, and a little
Thursday.
Homework = None
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