Welcome to Creative Writing!
J
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
Two-Day Plan
Thursday
1.
Revise one last poem today
(Russian Tailor).
2.
Print all unprinted
writings.
3.
Update Free Rice level
4.
Advanced Creative Writing
will be peer conferencing your poems today!
Yee-haw!
Friday
1.
Small Group Sharing (If you know you will not be here Friday,
please tell me now!)
2.
Ab = Jordan
a.
McGilvrey (all three
blocks)
b.
Soboroff (third)
c.
Seberg (fourth)
3.
Folder check
4.
Sharing Prep
· Form for yesterday’s assignment: https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/forms/d/1_vLxTfTiBIsg2w-g5zWYsiXw3SXSHGqXm1GE7HDpGT0/viewform
Why
should writers and readers be familiar with poetry terms?
1. Because we need to all be using the same DICTION
when we talk about each other’s poems.
2. Because we need to be aware
of all the parts that make up a poem—and maybe that will allow us to experiment
with a variety of techniques when we write!
·
Quizlet Poetry
Vocab Practice (2:02-2:17)
…anyone brave enough to let me look at their
Around the Block revision from yesterday?
ACW read all three poems from 2nd and 4th block (the ones in
the folder by 11:30am Thursday.)
At ______,
we will say good-bye to quizlet, and we will talk for five minutes about
REVISION. Thanks, __________, for
volunteering.
What Can You Use to Help You Revise Today?
1.
Advice
for Revising and Editing Poetry sheet (pink)
2.
Vocabulary
Variety sheet
3.
Thesaurus.com
4.
Peer
Conference Comments
5.
Quizlet
poetry elements knowledge
Your goal is to show mastery of the lessons you’ve learned in class
so far to revise this poem to make it the strongest it can be.
v Reminder: The only acceptable places to be on your
computer today are as follows:
1. The blog
2. The sites/links on the blog
3. thesaurus.com—bookmark it now,
peeps!
4. Google drive
5. iTunes/pandora
Note #1: Stow away cell phones.
Note #2: If LAN School tells me you are any place
else, you lose half-credit on your daily assignment, which cannot be made
up. Make sure you are on WCSD—STUDENT so
your computer is visible to me; otherwise, you lose half-credit as well
Revision: I Am a
Russian Tailor
1.
Pull up your
poem on google drive.
2.
Get out your
Vocabulary Variety sheet!
3.
Spend twenty
minutes doing all of the following: (Note: you must do ALL the following to receive full
credit for this assignment.)
a.
Read the poem
slowly to yourself.
b.
Answer all
four questions you asked yourself from the Advice on Revising and Editing
Poetry handout.
c.
Add color.
d.
Add a sound.
e.
Re-arrange/re-order
lines, as needed, for best effect. This
means grouping similar-topic lines together.
f.
Change any
line breaks to reflect how you want each line read.
g.
Look over your
Vocabulary Variety sheet to see which words you might use to be more precise
and descriptive in your poem.
h.
Give this poem
a strong title.
When you finish this revision, bag your computer,
and bring it back to my desk.
w/ Me at my desk:
Make
sure items are named correctly:
·
Ghosts, Monsters Bullies
·
Fifty-Word Stories
Update your free rice with me now, please!
Printing
·
Handout
·
You and your computer to the library
Homework
Diction Practice
1.
Play
free rice IN OUR CLASS GROUP by using the link on this blog.
2.
Start
at your best level, not at level one.
3.
When
I hand out the tracking sheet, fill out today’s info.
4.
15,000
grains are due by tomorrow.
Welcome to TURBO-ACW! J
Thursday, February 20th,
2014
Words
of the Week
1.
Conferencing
2.
Revision
3.
Memoir
Tomorrow
1.
Small Sharing Groups!
2.
If you know you won’t be here, please tell me now!
a.
Shan
b.
Mack Miller
3.
You will have almost all block to read as much of
your work as time allows.
4.
Do you remember when we did this in CW?
5.
So later in the block, we’re going to print a bunch
of pieces for that.
Why
You’re Highly Qualified as Peer Conferencers
1.
You’ve been analyzing poetry on your own
element spreadsheet.
2.
You’ve been writing your own poetry this
term.
3.
You’ve been trying to define what poetry
is.
4.
You completed Creative Writing, and
you’ve had all the lessons. J
5.
I trust you. Having said this, I need you to be above
reproach in your conduct with these conferences. If you draw a writer that you have a conflict
with, just re-draw. I don’t want you to
read someone’s work if you have tension with them. And no sarcasm—these guys might not take a
sarcastic comment the way you intend it.
· We spent the whole block either peer conferencing for Creative
Writing, or printing.
· Mallory and Steph, see me when you’re ready, and I’ll give you three
poems to peer conference for today’s grade.
Here’s What I Asked People to Comment On, In
Particular, In Addition to the Usual:
1. Specific details
2. Imagery—using all five
senses to SHOW, instead of just tell
3. Deleting non-vital
words—less is more!
4. Line breaks
5. Diction
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