CREATIVE WRITING—
Monday, December 9th,
2013
When You Come In
1.
Please sign in.
2.
Grab your folder.
Free-Write #5 (Started: )
1.
Get
out a blank sheet of notebook paper, and head it like this:
a. Your Name
b. Free Write #5
c. 12/9/2013
2.
Pull
out yellow page 10 from your textbook
3.
The
topic, genre, and style are yours.
4.
Write
for a full ten minutes without stopping.
5.
I’m
the only one who will read it.
Sharing: Strongest Six-Word Memoir
1.
Type one of your
originals on the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dDlYT29aN05VYk5FeDBNdTAyY2xTcmc#gid=0
2.
Play free rice for
fifteen minutes; I’ll text you when to quit.
3.
We will buzz around
the room, and you will read yours.
Diction Practice
1.
Play free rice at your BEST
LEVEL (not starting over at Level 1) when you finish.
2.
Why are we playing free rice?
3.
20,000 grains are due by Tuesday,
12/10.
Writing
Assignment: Ogden Nash Poems
1.
Let’s read some
little poems by writer Ogden Nash (handout)
2.
What elements do you
notice Nash using in many of the poems?
3.
Why would these
appeal to a kiddo?
4.
Write three Ogden
Nash Poems of your own, with these elements in each:
a.
Humor
b.
Animals or other
topics children like
c.
Word-play
d.
Rhyme: www.rhymezone.com
e.
Listen to the rhythm
(number of syllables in each line). Do
you need to substitute any words so the flow is better?
f.
Is every word a strong
one? Use your Vocab Variety and
thesaurus.com for help.
g.
length = two to eight
lines for each poem
h.
a title that adds a
dimension to the poem
Printing
and Sharing
1.
Use the MLA format
for heading.
2.
Put them all on the
same page.
3.
Copy and paste ONE
of them in the document I made in our class folder.
4.
We will read them
aloud tomorrow!
Tuesday,
Tomorrow
1.
Read our Santa’s
Helper’s Letters
2.
Read some model
letters from last year.
3.
Write a first draft of
our letters.
Welcome to CPR!
Monday, December 9th,
2013
When
You Come In
1.
Sign in, please.
2.
Please put your phone on your card on
the circle table (hostage situation).
3.
Please take a chair where no one is
right next to you.
Mid-Term Exam
You will need
1.
your Professor Foster article
2.
something to write with
3.
a sheet of notebook paper, in case you
need extra space to write
IF YOU FINISH EARLY
1.
Grab your computer, and go into my library.
2.
You can either free rice or quizlet, but be silent,
since people are trying to ace their tests!
Vocab
Work
·
Go to quizlet, and study your new
word list (I pulled them from the work you did yesterday on Professor Foster’s
chapter, “It’s Greek to Me.” (quiz Friday)
·
Free Rice (20,000 grains due by Wednesday, December 11th)
Welcome, APILLIONAIRES!
Monday, December 9th,
2013
When You
Come In
1. Please drag your God/Goddess
Presentation to the correct folder in our shared AP collection.
2.
Rename it, “Your God/Goddess—Your Last
Name”.
3.
Put your name in big letters on the
front of your Foster article, then lay it by my candle. Thanks!
BackBone
Literarature: Greek Mythology—Big
Resonances,
Echoes
· Motifs
· Archetypes
Barbie Presentations
1. Today, people told a brief story (one minute)
about his/her god/goddess, then presented the myth Barbie.
2. We listened the first time through the
presentation, then took notes as we went back through the key points.
4. The following gods/goddess were presented:
5. We will hear about the remaining
gods/goddesses Monday!
Barbie Presentations from Friday—what do we
remember?
1. Gaea
a. Mother Earth
b. married to Uranus
c. Pythos was her symbol
and oracle
d. Uranus stuffed
children into her (into the earth)
e. Mother to all the
Titans
f. Born from Chaos
2. Cronus
a. Castrated Uranus with a
sickle!
b. Tossed junk into ocean,
creating sea foam from which Aphrodite was born
c. Rhea’s husband and
brother
d. Father of the Olympians
e. Ate all his babies
except Zeus
3. Atlas
a. Titan
b. God of astronomy
c. Held up the sky as
punishment
d. Tried tricking Hercules
to take over, but Hercules tricked him back
4. Dionysus
a. God of wine,
celebration, theater, partying, good times
b. Had a posse of nymphs
and Maenads
c. Hung with Pan
d. Delivered by C-section
from Semile, then popped into Zeus’s leg until ready to be born
5.
Hades
a.
God of the underworld
b.
Richest god (minerals, etc)
c.
Tricked Persephone into having to stay
underground with him—pomegranate seeds
d.
Had invisibility helmet
e.
Had a pet guard dog--Cerebus
6.
Artemis
a.
Goddess of the hunt
b.
Twin of Apollo
c.
Goddess of childbirth
d.
Goddess of the moon
e.
Turned her foes into animals, who were then
usually shot by her or someone else
f.
Deer—very important
A word about note-taking….
Presentations we’ll
hear today:
1. Apollo
2. Aphrodite
3. Ares
4. Athena
5.
Persephone
Start making connections between our first
round of figures.
Golden Apple (motif)
Archetypes?
Apple (Greek, Bible,
Snow White)
Literal versus
figurative
Fruit versus apple
Jealousy
HOMEWORK
· Quizlet
· Vocab War
· Decide a format for
round three of presentations
· Select third Greek
myth figure—please type your figure, then your name, below:
o
Sirens and Pegasus- Gracey Murphy
o
Minotaur and The Graces– Jiovanni
o
Medusa and Zeus– Amber Linnenkamp
o
Harpies & Python – Caitlin
o
The Amazons and Muses– Bailey
o
Helios and Hecatoncheires – Kristine
o
Hydra and Cyclopes – Connor Ruffenach
o
Cerberus & Eros- Sam Mullens
o
Satyrs and the Chimera - MK
Read and annotate for
presentations #3 and #4.
…Barbie templates and
presentation order to you tomorrow!
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