Link for Death of Language Assignment
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/forms/d/1zMzHVQ2Nx66g5yslL0mevvYjxLg7UsI_3VrJ6Ww1WVI/viewform
Welcome to Creative Writing!
J
Friday, February 7th, 2014
When You Come In
1.
Sign in.
2.
Homework Reminder: Free Rice
(10,000 grains) is due Thursday, February 13th.
3.
Fill out the form on the blog for your Death of Language assignment.
4.
Get out your Writing Resistance Topics sheet, please.
5.
Get out a sheet of notebook paper and a pen/pencil.
Free Write #3
1.
Write for the full ten minutes, without stopping.
2.
Talk about any topic of your choosing.
3.
Who will read this Free Write #3?
4.
How will I grade this?
a.
Start Time =
b.
End Time =
5.
To Turn It In
6. Circle (or rectangle, or parallelogram) the following
a. “Free Write #3
b. 2/7/2014
c.
Your Name
Put them FACE DOWN, and please pass them over to Hunter and Zach,
please!
Show form responses for final call.
Death
of Language Progress Check
· Half-way
Checkpoint (ten words with full reasons that look at least as detailed
and thoughtful as the answers on page 19)
·
Goal
#1: Get feedback on your work so far that will show you if you are
on the right track for creating an excellent assignment, or if you need to
dedicate more time and energy to this assignment between now and Tuesday.
·
Goal
#2: Learn some new vocabulary words.
·
Explanation
#1: Pages 21: Handout #1: Final Assessment
(which we will fill out Tuesday)
·
Explanation
#2: Page 20: Progress Check (which you will complete now)
Started _______; ending -ish (twenty minutes)
· When you finish your two progress checks, turn in your page 20 to me.
· Now play Free Rice until I stop you. Wee!
Free Rice is so fun! J
Diction Practice—Click on the link on my
blog!
1. Play free rice at your BEST LEVEL (not starting over at
Level 1) when you finish.
2. 10,000 grains are due by Thursday, February 13th, 2014.
FRIDAY 4th
block needs to do the folder organization!
Grab a yellow sheet off the sign-in table. (4th
Only)
Grab your manila folder off the circle table. (4th Only)
Writing
Assignment #5: Around the Block Poem
1.
We’ve talked a lot
about diction.
2.
We’ve talked some about
using all five senses to SHOW the reader a scene, instead of just TELLING him
or her what’s happening.
3.
Today, we’re going to
practice using all five senses when we write.
4.
First, let’s try it
with out current neighborhood. Look out
the window, the list details with me here:
5.
See
a.
Green pine trees
b.
Dead grass poking up out
of the snow
c.
Glistening snow
d.
Snow drifts
e.
Hilly
f.
Clouds
g.
Spacious landscape
6.
Hear
a.
Trav’s pink Duramax
roaring by
b.
Nate Ross splashing in
his pool
c.
Birds chirping
7.
Smell
a.
Pine trees
8.
Taste
a.
Bitter cold air
9.
Feel
a.
Bumpy sidewalk
b.
Leaves crunching beneath
your feet
c.
Wetness of snow
10.
Now consider your own
neighborhood. Turn to page 16 in your book, and
complete the Visualizing worksheet.
a.
Writer = You! J
b.
Topic = Around the
Block POEM
11.
Trade with the
partner I give you.
12.
Partner, sign the
bottom of page 16.
13.
Write three
questions beneath your name that you want answered about this walk around the
block.
14.
STAR his/her best
DETAIL!
15.
Hand this sheet to
me on the way out the door!
ACW
Welcome to TURBO-ACW! J
Friday, February 7th, 2014
Organization
1.
Drop your Cinquain and your One Poem Three Ways in the
folder, if you didn’t do so after your peer conferences yesterday. Thanks!
Class Poem Lines Robot Typing (Fifteen Minutes)
1. Get a Class Poem Packet.
2. Create a new google doc.
3. Type in the lines YOU wrote for each Class Poem.
4. Don’t do any revision whatsoever!
That’s for a later date!
Yay! J
5. Name it, “Your Last Name—My Class Poem Lines”, and make sure it’s in
the class folder called “Class Poem Robot Line Typing.”
Memoir
1.
Read and annotate page 42, William
Zinsser’s short piece on writing memoir.
2.
Read the requirements for the Childhood
Memoir on page 43.
3.
Start typing!
4.
Create a 400-word (minimum) rough draft
for class Monday.
AFTER LUNCH
Tweet Week
Classwork/Homework
1.
Tweet @ Willis.
2.
#savethewords
3.
#kexy (brittle; withered)
4.
Tweet twice between 1PM today and 11:20 Monday
5.
NOTE: Pics
work REALLY well for learning vocab, so use those to give your tweet an extra
punch.
Tweeting
1.
Do a search for the words:
a.
#crassulent
b.
#foppotee
c.
#isangelous
d.
#kexy
e.
Or do a search for #savethewords.
2.
Favorite AND retweet everyone!
Note: On
Monday, you will do a self-evaluation of your pinterest and twitter performance
thus far.
Also, we will vote to continue tweeting with
five new words next week.
Memoir—go back to the memoir writing your were
doing—Childhood Memoir from page 43—and continue typing until I stop you.
1:00--Brain
Pain: TWO Difficult Sentences to Write
Write TWO sentences
describing a recent visit
you paid to the planet Jupiter.
1. In the first
sentence, make every word come later in the alphabetical order than the one
before it (A-Z).
a.
A big comet dragged effortlessly
b.
Aliens brought fish into Jupiter’s orbit. HORRIBLE
c.
Aliens capture dozens of zebras. AGAIN, HORRIBLE!
d.
Aliens captured dozens in peril.
e.
Aliens brought Caleb his moon shoes that were yellow
zebra-skin.
f.
Bizzle-fractnoid dragged egg-shaped freight-cars, happily
ignoring meteors, skipping towards Zenon!
J
2. In the second
sentence, make every word come earlier in alphabetical order than the one
before it (Z-A).
3.
Zack yelled, “Wall-e, stop ruining Jupiter’s hurricane;
it’s getting annoying.”
3. Minimum of ten words per sentence!
4. Save them in the folder for our
class on google docs as “your last name, difficult sentence”.
Homework for
Monday
1.
Two Difficult Sentences (about your trip to
Jupiter), saved in our class folder on google docs!
2.
Completed rough draft (400 words, minimum, on
Chidhood Memoir)
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