Writing Lessons
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Writing Lesson #1:
Avoid clichés!
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Writing Lesson #2: Use
Precise Words.
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Writing Lesson #3: Use
Vocabulary Variety.
Welcome
to Creative Writing!
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Friday,
April 5th
When You Come In
- Please sign in.
- Please get headphones or earbuds you can use this block.
Organization
1.
On
google drive, click on "Collections Shared with Me".
2.
DRAG
our Creative Writing class folder on top of/into your "My Drive" so
you can access this.
3.
You
MUST get this working today so you can access the shared document and type in
your three favorite six-word memoirs.
W/Me in the Library When You Get the Card
1.
Read
your Earliest Memory Poem aloud to me.
2.
Discuss
revision ideas (poetic elements).
Reminder:
The only acceptable places to be on your computer today are as follows:
1.
The
blog
2.
The
sites/links on the blog
3.
An
online dictionary or synonym finder
4.
Google
drive
5.
Pandora
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If
LAN School tells me your any place else, you will receive zeros for all
assignments today.
The Six-Word Memoir Overview
1.
Be
PRECISE. (Writing
Lesson #2)
2.
Use
your Vocabulary Variety sheet! (Writing Lesson #3)
THINK ABOUT THIS:
Rumor has it that when writer Ernest Hemingway was asked to write a
short, short story, he penned this:
“Pair of baby shoes: never
worn.”
That’s only six words, but it tells a story.
Reading #1 (Fifteen Minutes)
4.
Explore
the six-word memoirs and stories here:
BE PATIENT--THE LINK TAKES A MINUTE TO LOAD! http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
5.
Read
people’s memoirs. You can browse, or you
can click on a certain subject area, if you’re interested in memoirs on one
topic.
6.
Type
your THREE FAVORITE classroom appropriate six-word memoirs IN OUR CLASS FOLDER
in google drive in the document named, “Favorite Six-Word Memoirs”.
Writing #1 (Fifteen Minutes)
1.
Create/type
THREE six-word memoirs--that way, you can do a funny one, a serious one, and
whatever else you come up with. THESE
ARE ORIGINAL SIX-WORD MEMOIRS, CREATED BY YOU RIGHT NOW.
2.
Grading
Criteria:
a.
Use
PRECISE words.
b.
Use
your VOCABULARY VARIETY sheet for help.
c.
Type
all three memoirs on the same page.
d.
Give
each memoir its own title (which doesn’t count in your six words).
e.
Use
the MLA heading.
3.
Print
to the Media Center (but don’t go get it).
Lecture and Quiz--Let's See What You Know! (Ten minutes)
1.
Listen
to the lesson at this link:
2.
Take
the quiz to see if you understood the main points of the lecture.
3.
E-mail
me your quiz score (from your school g-mail).
All you do is put your score as the title line. You don’t actually have to write a message.
Last Fifteen Minutes: Reflection and Organization
1.
You
need all the material out of your folders in the file cabinet.
2.
Put
everything in order, per your orange turn-in sheet.
3.
Organize
your packet.
4.
Write
your two reflections.
Homework
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NONE! (Unless you've been absent and need to make
up an assignment from the orange sheet I
handed out in class today!)
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