Welcome to Creative Writing!
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Welcome to Creative Writing!
J
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
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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
5. Imagery Emily Bronte (p. 33)
Writing
Lesson: Show, Don’t Just Tell—How to
Create Imagery Using All Five Senses
1.
Imagery (Hot Chocolate Sentence)—(p. 34)
2. Work on this with me now.
3. Make additions as needed when we discuss it as a class.
Writing Assignment: Sense
Poem (p. 57)
1.
Look at the basic
skeleton of this poem on page 57.
2.
Look at how interesting
people made these poems in the models on page 59.
3.
Review all the details on
your Visualizing sheet you completed yesterday.
a.
Your lists were solid! So use them today—you’ve already created
excellent imagery for your poem.
b.
Even though you’ve created
details on your Visualizing sheet, you will still need to add, subtract,
arrange, and re-word.
c.
Use the Vocabulary Variety
sheet for help—every word has to be perfect, in this short poem.
d.
Nowhere in your poem should
any of the following appear: I see, I
hear, I smell, I taste, I touch. Make
the subject work for you.
i. Example: I hear the roar of the tractor in the corn
field.
ii. The
tractor (the important part) roars to life in the corn filed.
iii. I
see the concrete stage in the town
square.
iv. The
concrete stage commands our attention in the center of the square.
4.
Create a doc in the class folder, “Sense
Poems”, and call it “Your Last Name—Sense Poem.”
5.
Create a strong Sense Poem, doing all of
the following:
a.
Use strong diction (Vocab Variety sheet
and thesaurus.com for help)
b.
Use CONCRETE PHYSICAL details, not
abstractions—pull from your yellow Visualizing sheet! You’re SHOWING your place—not just telling
about it.
c.
Arrange it in an order that creates flow
d.
Delete any words that aren’t vital for
sense
e.
Use thoughtful line breaks to show the
reader how to read the poem
f.
Use the correct MLA format
for heading.
When You Finish Your Sense Poem
Ø Guess what? It’s time to write more poems! J
Writing Assignment: Ogden
Nash Poems (p. 60)
Writing Assignment: Ogden Nash Poems
1. We’ve looked at models, and we’ve talked about why these poems
would appeal to kiddos.
2. 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 (GRADING CRITERIA):
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
When
You Finish Writing Your Three Ogden Nash Poems—Portfolio Planning
1.
In our class folder, open the spreadsheet titled “Portfolio
Planning, 2014”.
2.
Complete all the information required.
3.
Be trustworthy and respectful—don’t mess with anyone else’s
entries—remember, “See File Revision History” is recording you!
Diction Practice
Ø Free
Rice until I stop you! J (25,000
for Friday)
End of Block
Sharing some Ogden Nash
poems! J
Turbo-Advanced
Creative Writing
Happy
Wednesday!
Lincoln
Writing Buddies
1. Grab your folder off the
table.
2. Read the two green sheets
inside.
3. Make a plan for today for
your kiddos.
4.
What templates or materials are still
needed?
5.
High-schoolers who need to be shifted?
6.
Board the bus at 11:25.
Homework
for Tomorrow
1.
Complete your Short Story Proposal.
2.
Have at least (minimum) two pages of any
part of your short story saved in the class folder.
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