Welcome to Creative Writing! J
Monday, November 4th,
2013
When You
Come In (Before Tardy Bell Rings)
1.
Please initial next to your
name on the clipboard.
2.
Make sure your name is on
the homework (Earthbook/Academic Fraud worksheet).
3.
Lay it by my candle,
please.
4.
I don’t take late work, so
hand it in now, or never.
Writing
Lesson: Avoiding Clichés
1. Clichés--page 11—what are they? Why are they bad for our writing?
2. Create anti-clichés (p. 11). (Started ____; ending ____)
a. It has to make sense! (be true)
b. It has to be original.
c. It has to put a picture in our heads!
3. If you’ve done your best work, and you have
time leftover, read Earthbook quietly for enjoyment, and fill out page 6.
4. Trade three times for smileys.
a. Read your partner’s ten anti-clichés.
b. Put a smiley and your initials by the TWO
you feel are strongest.
5. Everyone share his/her best anti-cliché.
6. Skim and scan pages 12-13, and do the
following.
a. Put a question mark by clichés you don’t
understand,
b. Put a smiley by ones you like (even though
they’re cliché).
c. Put a check-mark by the ones you’ve heard
gazillions of times.
7. NOW:
Pair-share your responses.
8. I’ll explain any that are still unclear.
Writing Experiment #4: Grateful/Break Up/Dinner
1.
Select
ONE of the following choices to write about.
2.
Go
to your google drive.
3.
Click
on the red square that says "Create", then "Document".
4.
Head
your paper with the MLA format (Look at your previous assignments, or ask a
neighbor to check yours, if you can’t remember.)
5.
Focus
only on doing your own work, and type for the full twenty minutes.
6.
No
one will read this but me.
7.
When
I call time, do a word count of your document, and type that in parentheses
next to your name.
8.
Print
to the Media Center, but do NOT go get it.
I will send one person down to collect them.
9.
Starting
at ______; Ending at _______
#1: I’m
Grateful
Ø
Even
the dreariest, most awful weeks aren’t bad twenty-four hours a day. Think of a few things that have happened this
week that you’re grateful for.
#2:
Breaking Up
Ø
Woody
Allen once said,
Ø
“It’s
better to be the leaver than the leavee.”
Ø
Do
you agree? Would you rather dump someone
than get dumped yourself? Which do you
think is more painful?
#3:
Dinner Party
Ø
If
you could invite any three people from any period in history to a dinner party
(food, conversation), whom would you invite?
Describe each person, and explain why you chose him or her.
HOMEWORK
Vocabulary-Building: Free Rice
1.
You
need a big vocabulary to write precisely.
This term, we’re going to work specifically on building your vocabulary.
2.
Quietly
open your computer, and go to my blog.
3.
Click
on the “Creative Writing Free Rice” link on the right side of the blog.
4.
Do
you see our class group name above your bowl of rice? That’s the only way to know for sure you’re
in the group.
5.
You
need to donate 5,000 grains by Thursday, November 7th.
6.
Guess
what free rice has to do with diction?!
When You Play, Every Time
1.
Go
to “Change Level”, and change it to two levels below your best.
2.
Do
NOT start over from “1” every time. You
will use hours out of your life! L
Welcome to CPR!
Monday, November 4th,
2013
When
You Come In
1.
Please initial next to your name on the
clipboard.
2.
Please turn in your Myth Barbie by my
candle.
Vocabulary-Building, Part I
1) Click on the link on my blog, and join
my CPR quizlet site:
2) Study these words—they will show you
how much of our modern language has been influenced by Greek culture, including
mythology:
3) Study these words—they will make you a
more learned person, more prepared for college and the workplace:
Big
Idea
Ø
Start listening and looking now for
resonances, echoes, patterns.
Ø
What have you heard so far?
NEW
IDEA: Importance of Beasts and Creatures
1.
Represented evil in conflicts between
good and bad
2.
Gave mortals the chance to slay them
and become heroes
3.
Offered so many answers and
explanations for disasters such as shipwrecks and volcanoes
Model
and Turn-In Procedure
2. Use google presentation, and SHARE it with
me (“Kerrie Willis”) on google drive.
3. If you absolutely cannot do this, use powerpoint,
and e-mail it to me.
This page may help you decide who you want to research: http://www.greek-gods.info/monsters/
Research
Time
1.
Read your green biography about your myth
creature.
2.
Highlight or annotate details you
might want to use on your powerpoint.
3.
Go to my blog, and click on the link
for “Greek Mythology”.
4.
Do more research on those three
sites, so you have plenty of vivid details for your powerpoint.
Mythology
Beast Powerpoint Presentation Grading Criteria
I included the following
information about my god/goddess/hero/myth:
·
Slide #1: __________Name of beast;
strong image to show who/what it is
·
Slide #2: __________Three most vital
details to know about this beast
·
Slide #3: __________Two
connections/relationships with other Greek myth figures
·
Slide #4 __________Two reasons they are
important to know about in mythology study (Give yourself enough time in class
to let Mr. Collins help you with this.)
·
Slide #5: __________Two modern-day
connections (Give yourself enough time
in class to let Mr. Collins help you with this.)
·
Slide #6:__________Powerful image
·
Slide #7: __________Powerful image
Due: Wednesday, when class
begins
Homework
for Tuesday
Ø
5,000 grains on free rice
Homework
for Wednesday
Ø
Myth Beast Powerpoint
Other Homework
Ø Quizlet sets (quizzes next week)
AP
English—Monday, November 4th, 2013
When
You Come In
1. Sign in.
2. Open your “AMP” packet to line 248-end of text and put your name at the top. Lay it by my candle, please.
3. Mr. Collins is going to grade your
annotations as “lots of margin notes” or “skimpy margin notes”; and then he’ll
get them back to you.
1:55-2:10--Vocabulary
Quiet Work Time
Ø
Study
Quizlet “Vocab List #5”—quiz Thursday.
Ø
Fill
out Vocab War sheets for any vocabulary you’ve used or heard in the last
week. Do this as an individual, not in
teams.
Ø
If
you feel superbly prepared for Thursday’s quiz, practice one of the quizlet’s I
pulled from “One-Hundred Words Every Senior Needs to Know” list.
“A Modest Proposal”
Unpacking the Text
How does Swift do what he does?
You will need the purple handout from Friday.
2:10-2:20--Elements
of a Classical Argument
Directions: Continue
finding and annotating—just write the word (“Rebuttal” for instance)--as many
of the elements as you can (multiple instances).
Ten minutes only!
1.
Problem
2.
Solution
3.
Argument
4.
Rebuttal
5.
Advantages
6.
Tone
(rational, specific, never quarrelsome)
2:20-2:35--Problem,
Solution, Benefits
Ø
Follow the directions on the chart (back
of purple handout I gave you Friday; extras on heater).
2:35-2:55--Quiet, Independent Work Time--Some Closing
Thoughts and Review
1.
Read the following
one-page piece about “AMP” in a nutshell, and why you should care: http://www.shmoop.com/a-modest-proposal/
2.
Read what the
seven major plot structures are, and read shmoop’s opinion about what kind of
plot structure this is: (Think “Archetypes”!)
http://www.shmoop.com/a-modest-proposal/rags-to-riches-plot.html
3.
Complete all sets
of flashcards except “Quotes”: http://www.shmoop.com/a-modest-proposal/flashcards.html
(quiz tomorrow with information gleaned from the three above
items)
2:55-3:20—Class
Discussion w/Mr. Collins
1.
What
is something from the worksheets or from the online reading that you still need
to discuss to understand it more fully?
2.
What
are the stray thoughts you have about “A Modest Proposal”?
3.
What
is something bothering you that you want an answer to?
4.
What
is a hypothesis you have you want to share with others?
5.
What
aspects of the piece to you still want to talk about?
Homework
1.
Read and carefully annotate the excerpt from The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Untion,
pages 100-113 in your Animal Farm packet. You will
take a detailed quiz over the information tomorrow.
2.
Quizlet = Vocab #5 (quiz Thursday)
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