Welcome
to Creative Writing!
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Wednesday,
April 3rd, 2013
Before the Tardy Bell Rings
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Sign
in. Thank you!
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Pick
up a yellow Cliché Trio tory Comments sheet.
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Pick
up your cliché trio story off the heater, the one with your name highlighted.
Sharing
Something in the Creative Writing Folder in Google Docs
1.
Anything you put in there can be viewed and/or
edited by anyone in this Creative Writing class.
2.
Do not touch anyone else’s work! This violates the #1 mandate for this class,
which is trust. Be trustworthy.
Sharing:
Cliché Trio Stories Aloud
1.
We
are going to read these stories aloud; each person in the group will read about
a third of the story. You break it up as
your group sees fit.
2.
You’ll
be at the front of the room, with your paper copies, and I’ll have your story
up on the screen.
3.
Commenting: for each story, audience members need to make
three comments on the yellow sheet. Let’s
talk about those now.
4.
I
need someone to scroll down the stories as they’re being read—who can do that
for me?
5.
Put
your story and your comment sheet in your manila folder in the file cabinet
when we’re done today.
Writing Experiment #4--Earliest
Memory (Continue and Finish)
Typing Your First Draft,
and Revising to Second
1.
Now, create a new google doc, and type a
paragraph or two about your earliest memory (ten-ish minutes) Started:
2.
Please doublespace, since this is prose (not a
poem).
3. When you finish your paragraph, type these questions at
the bottom of your piece.
a.
What colors can I add?
i. EXAMPLE OF HOW YOUR ANSWER SHOULD LOOK: I could add the color lavender when I talk
about my mom’s shirt.
b.
What textures did I feel?
c.
What sounds did I hear?
d.
What’s my overall feeling about this memory?
e.
Did I learn something from it?
f.
Do I like remembering it?
4. Ask yourself these questions, then type your answers
under each question.
5. After you type your six answers, go back to your
paragraph(s), and add any details you need to, based on your answers (2nd
draft). (ten-ish minutes)
How to Turn Your
Paragraph Into a Poem (Ten minutes)
1.
Remember my paragraph? Now look at how I turned it into a poem.
2.
Here’s how I turned my earliest memory story
into a poem.
3.
What do you notice?
Rescue
Two
babies
Up to
their belly buttons
In the
immense jet black tub
The
girl steps out
Sees
her brother, peachy-white
She
sees the silver handle
Turns
the knob
All the
way
Towards
the wall
Steam
rises off the water
Drifting
up to the white ceiling
Baby
brother turning pink
Waving
skinny little arms
Screaming
Mom
runs in
His
savior
Creating Your Poem
1.
Before you do the same, get out your pink Vocabulary
Variety sheet, and let’s look at some choices here.
2.
Now you turn your paragraph into a poem!
3.
Note:
Leave everything on the page. I
want to see your paragraph(s), your questions and answers, and finally your
poem. All three are part of the grade.
4.
Print it.
I’ll send someone to get them all in a bit, and then you can turn them
in. Yay!
Printing Reminders—Each and Every Time!
1.
Have you doublespaced the whole story (no extra spaces between
paragraphs though)?
2.
Have you paragraphed the story?
3.
Have you titled the poem? (It
can be singlespaced, to save space.)
4.
Do you have the MLA format for heading correctly in your upper left
corner?
5.
Did you print front/back?
Reading Assignment (page 6) and Earthbook
a.
Read
and relax . (This means you read for
enjoyment.
b.
If
you’re reading a piece, and you stop enjoying it, turn the page!
c.
Did
you find a piece you thought was really strong?
Or really funny? Then record it
on page 6.
d.
Finish
this page, put your name on it, then put it in your folder in the file cabinet.
Homework
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