Friday, May 3, 2013

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Second Block Plan Only  (Fourth Block Should Scroll Down.)


Welcome to Creative Writing!                 
Ø  Happy  Friday!—May 3rd, 2013  J

When You Come In
1.      Sign in on the clipboard, please!
2.     Get your blue title worksheet off the heater, please.
3.     Get out a sheet of notebook paper for Free Write #4.
4.     Get out page 11 for writing ideas.

Free Write #4      (10 minutes)
1.     Write for ten minutes in any format, over any topic.
2.     Use page 11, if you need help getting ideas.
3.     If you run out of steam on one idea, draw a line, and start a new one.
4.    Keep writing constantly—do not sit and think (or space off, but tell yourself you’re thinking).  
5.     Start @ 9:56 – 10:07-ish  

Writing Lesson #9:  Making Strong Titles
1.      Re-read our tips:  page 51.
2.     Discuss our strong and weak examples:  page 52.
a.     Why are some interesting and strong?
b.    Why are others cliché, boring, or weak?
3.    Review Stronger Titles on google. 
4.    Draw ______ numbers.  Make two specific, academic comments about what is making that title stronger.  (Use what we just talked about from pages 52-3, as well as your own brain power!)
5.    NOW:  Please recycle your little numbers in the blue recycle bin.
6.         When you finish, make sure you have done the following:
a.         Read the comments your four people gave you.
b.        Re-title your actual pieces on google drive (if you didn’t do this on Monday)
c.          Pull up each piece you’ve written this term, and give that piece a strong title.  (Do this until I stop you.)
7.         Me:  put points in the gradebook for re-titling and for commenting.

(2nd)  U of I Writing Buddies
Ø  Look at the prompt for May 9th, and unpack it.

(2nd)  Sharing Activity #2
1.      Read Autobio poems aloud
2.     Look (at the screen), Lean, and Listen!
3.     Fill out your listening sheet as we go.
4.     We’ll give four comments per poem after the writer reads.

Homework
1.      20,000 grains of rice for Monday
2.     Movie Poem Prompt (U of I Writing Project; all info in google drive class folder)




Fourth Block Plan


Welcome to Creative Writing!                 
Ø  Happy  Friday!—May 3rd, 2013  J

When You Come In
1.      Sign in on the clipboard, please!
2.     Get your blue title worksheet off the heater, please.
3.     Get out a sheet of notebook paper for Free Write #4.
4.     Get out page 11 for writing ideas.

Free Write #4      (10 minutes)
1.     Write for ten minutes in any format, over any topic.
2.     Use page 11, if you need help getting ideas.
3.     If you run out of steam on one idea, draw a line, and start a new one.
4.    Keep writing constantly—do not sit and think (or space off, but tell yourself you’re thinking).  
5.     Start @ 1:24; ending at 1:34-ish


Writing Lesson #9:  Making Strong Titles
1.      Re-read our tips:  page 51.
2.     Discuss our strong and weak examples:  page 52.
a.     Why are some interesting and strong?
b.    Why are others cliché, boring, or weak?
3.    Review Stronger Titles on google. 
4.    Draw ______ numbers.  Make two specific, academic comments about what is making that title stronger.  (Use what we just talked about from pages 52-3, as well as your own brain power!)
5.    NOW:  Please recycle your little numbers in the blue recycle bin.
6.         When you finish, make sure you have done the following:
a.         Read the comments your four people gave you.
b.        Re-title your actual pieces on google drive (if you didn’t do this on Monday)
c.          Pull up each piece you’ve written this term, and give that piece a strong title.  (Do this until I stop you.)
7.         Me:  put points in the gradebook for re-titling and for commenting.


Writing Experiment #12:
Ghosts, Monsters and Bullies (poem)

What did you fear when you were young?
Ø  Spiders?                                                                   
Ø  The dark?
Ø  Zombies?
Ø  The vacuum?
Ø  Clowns?

Tell me one thing you remember fearing when you were young:
Ø  Death
Ø  The dark
Ø  Thunder
Ø  Snakes (2)
Ø  Monsters in the Closet
Ø  Monsters under the Bed
Ø  Clowns
Ø  The Re-Dead from “Zelda”
Ø  Spiders
Ø  Storms
Ø  Sleeping in the Dark

ASSIGNMENT:
1.      Write a poem about one of your childhood fears.
2.     Type a poem that tells a story about a time you were afraid as a child.
3.     Name it “Your Last Name—WE#12--Childhood Fear Poem”
4.     Use MLA format for heading.
5.     Try to get at least twenty lines.
6.     Use your pink sheet for help with diction!
This poem will be read by ONE other person in this room.
Work Time = scant 20 minutes
Starting @
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Here's a model I read in class today:

Boogey-Man

I lay in bed
Grip the covers tight
I stare at the closet
Waiting for the door to open
He will come out
Snatch me away
So I will never see my family again
He hides in the shadows, the dark and the night
Waiting to frighten me.
I ease off to sleep
The closet door moves
Out he comes
Fang teeth, furry body, sharp claws
I scream
Mom runs down to comfort me
Telling me it’s just a dream
The closet door closes
But mom can’t see
He will be back tomorrow night
Back to scare me.

Kodey S.

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