Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
Ø Sign in, please.
Ø Get your “Making
Titles…” worksheet.
Ø Get your manila
folder.
Focus for the Last Fourteen Days
1. Showing, Not Just
Telling
2. Revision
3. Writing Buddies—this
Friday and next Friday
4. Portfolio
Writing Lesson: Show, Don’t
Just Tell
Review
1. Difference between
“literal” and “figurative language” (p. 32)
2. Least Vivid to
Most Vivid (p. 32 )
3. Diction Sandra
Cisneros (p. 32)
4. Vocabulary Variety—reminder
Writing
Lesson: Show, Don’t Just Tell—How to
Create Imagery
1.
Imagery (Emily Bronte)—(p. 33)
2. Work on this with me now.
3. Make additions as needed when we discuss it as a class.
Writing Assignment: Sense
Poem Pre-Write
1.
Think of a place you love
to be.
2. Fill out the Visualizing Worksheet, listing twenty concrete
details.
3. Number them.
4. Use your Vocab Variety sheet for help with strong diction.
5. Put your name on the line, and turn the sheet in by the monkey when
you finish.
Diction Practice (started 2:40-ish )
Ø Free
Rice until I stop you! J (25,000
for Friday)
Organization
Ø Get
your Musical Memory paper copy out of your folder. This should be the MOST CURRENT draft of this
piece you have.
Peer Conference: Musical
Memory
1.
Let’s go over the procedure (handout; big screen).
When You Finish
Ø Start
writing your Ogden Nash poems—woo-hoo!
Ø Here
are models created last year:
Writing Assignment: Ogden
Nash Poems (p. 60)
Writing Assignment: Ogden Nash Poems
1. Yesterday we read these poems, and we talked about why these would
appeal to kiddos.
2. Reminder: We will read
these aloud to our third-grade writing buddies on Friday.
3. Create a doc in the class folder, “Ogden Nash Poems”, and call
it “Your Last Name—Ogden Nash Poems”.
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
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
End of the Block
1. Is you Musical Memory in the google folder by your last name?
2. Is your manila folder in the correct folder holder?
Turbo-Advanced
Creative Writing
Happy
Tuesday!
Ø Grab a green packet and a white sheet, please.
Big
Idea = SHORT STORY!
Big
Questions
1.
What is a short story?
2.
What are the elements a short story (or
a novel) should have?
3.
Google docs: https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dEp3Z2xJelVTWUxBVC1PYVBqODZQd0E#gid=0
Diving
In
1.
Get the short story packet.
2.
Talk about STYLE! (pages 58-9)
3.
Partner
up to read and discuss “Point of View” (pages 62-3)—started
11:45; ending as soon as people wind down
4.
Consider Dan Harmon’s Story Circles
(page 64)
5.
Get a short story proposal (storyboard
on the back, which you can use to start sketching out your plot).
Quiet,
Independent Writing Workshop—Move if you think you’ll be chatty. Silence is supreme today.
1.
Complete short story proposal--due Thursday
(no work time tomorrow though)
2.
Start typing story, any part of it—two pages
due Thursday (no work time tomorrow though)
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