Welcome to Creative Writing!
J
Thursday, March 6th, 2014
Ø Sign in, please.
Focus for the Last Thirteen Days
1. Showing, Not Just
Telling
2. Revision
3. Writing Buddies—this
Friday and next Friday
4. Portfolio
Sharing
Ø Best Ogden Nash Poem
for claps!
Writing Buddies Preparation
1.
Put your name on a manila folder.
2.
Put your stuff from last week in the folder.
3.
Organize material from last time.
4.
What’s left on the lesson plan from last time?
5.
New lesson plan for tomorrow—PUT IT IN THE MANILA FOLDER!
6.
Take enough of these for your kiddos, and put them in your folder:
a.
Sense Poem Template
b.
Ogden Nash Poems
c.
Visualizing Worksheet
d.
Vocab Variety sheets
Rubric Pieces--Tests
1.
How are they different from other assignments?
2.
Count for fifteen percent of your term grade—basically, they are
tests to see if you can show what you know—performance.
3.
Measure precisely what we’ve been working on
Writing Lessons
1.
Revise.
2.
Use advice for revising and
editing poetry.
3.
Use strong
diction—Vocabulary Variety. One word can
make a difference!
4.
Avoid
clichés.
5.
Avoid
plagiarism and academic fraud.
6.
Choose
precise adjectives.
7.
Show,
don’t just tell.
a.
Figurative
and literal language
b.
Personification
c.
Simile
and metaphor
d.
Hyperbole/exaggeration
8.
Think
about a word’s CONNOTATION, as well as its DENOTATION.
9.
Create
meaningful, strong line breaks.
10.
Create
strong titles.
11.
Make
strong paragraphs. (next week)
Rubric Reminders
1.
Importance of REFLECTION when you fill it out
2.
Read, read, read carefully and thoughtfully—this is not
something you want to rush.
3.
Follow the directions.
4.
Have the following pages out on your desk:
a.
Advice for Revising and Editing Poetry—put today’s date next to
THREE questions you’re going to keep in your head as you revise your poems
today.
b.
Vocabulary Variety
5.
Do your best work.
Printing
Ø I will send someone
on a printer run at the following times:
Ø Meanwhile, you keep
working on the items in order; go back and complete the rubrics when you get
your papers. This is much more efficient
then every single person running down at different times to pick up one paper.
Quiet Workshop Time
Do the following, in order:
1.
Revise your Sense Poem, using my comments, and all of the above
information.
2.
Fill out the rubric, and follow directions for turning it in.
3.
Revise your Ogden Nash poems IF NEEDED.
4.
Fill out the rubric, and follow directions for turning it in.
5.
Study quizlet poetry terms IF you want to re-take the test on
Monday: http://quizlet.com/class/960569/
6.
Play free rice—25,000 grains is due tomorrow
Turbo-Advanced
Creative Writing
Happy
Thursday!
Organization
1.
Make sure your two-page short story
start is saved as your last name in our class folder called “Short Story.”
2.
Put your name on your proposal, and
turn it in by the monkey, please.
Big
Idea = SHORT STORY!
Review
1.
Style (pages 58-9)—upcoming = style
analysis tomorrow! J
2.
Point of View (pages 62-3)—which POV did
you choose, and why? Fill out blog form
before lunch.
3.
Dan Harmon’s Story Circles (page 64)—did
anyone use any part of this?
Today—Some
Harsh Sarcasm J , and a Bunch of Work on CHARACTER
1.
How to Bore Your Readers (pages
60-61)
2.
Creating Three-Dimension Characters
(page 65)
3.
Character Facebook Profile
4.
Character Wheel
5.
Describing People (page
66)—one-hundred words about one or two characters in your story, as directed on
page 66. Save it in the “Describing
People” folder in our class folder.
Quiet,
Independent Writing Workshop—Move if you think you’ll be chatty. Silence is supreme today.
1.
Facebook Profile due tomorrow
2.
Character Wheel due tomorrow
3.
Describing People due tomorrow
4.
Total of four pages due MONDAY
5.
Cruise pinterest board for most
recent fiction posts—good stuff there!
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