Welcome to Creative Writing!
Happy Thursday!
April 10th, 2014
When You Come In
1. Sign in.
Reminder: 5,000 grains was due today for free rice.
Writing Lesson
Review
1. What was your take-away from the diction
movie and quiz yesterday?
2. What does it mean to be “precise?”
3. What does free rice have to do with diction?
4. What does avoiding clichés have to do with
diction?
5. Am I developing a theme here?
6. Word of the Day = DICTION! (…shocking surprise, I know.)
Assignment #1: Save the Words!
1. Go the the website
below, and browse the list of words that this organization is trying to save.
2. After you browse for
fifteen minutes, find FIVE you want to save.
3. Go to our class folder,
and find the spreadsheet called “Saved Words”. Type the word, the
part of speech, and the definition, then a sentence about why you want to save
it. I’ve put a few models there for you. You’re welcome! J
5. BE PATIENT--THE LINK
TAKES A MINUTE OR TWO TO LOAD!
6. We will discuss your
“saved words” tomorrow!
Take the whole fifteen
minutes to explore and enjoy! Don’t
rush! There is no
“finishing early!”
Assignment #2: Death of Language (page 19)
1. Explanation of
assignment
2. Discussion of “A”
models
3. Why you’re using
dictionaries for this assignment
4. Workshop
time = Twenty full minutes right now to browse the dictionary (Start =
9:15 and
10:55--Sharing Out
1. Get with a partner,
and trade word lists.
2. Star the two words
you like the best.
3. Define any words for
your partner as needed.
4. Sign the bottom of
your partner’s paper.
5. Each of you come
type your FAVORITE word so far here:
a. Higgledy-piggledy
@ 9:20
and 11:00
1.
Tomorrow, Mr.
Collins will be my sub. Be nice to
him! He is wonderful! And he is an English teacher, so USE HIM for
help on any aspects of your assignments.
2.
I have three things
for you to do tomorrow.
a.
Death of Language
(thirty minutes—ten well-developed answers are due on Monday, on google drive;
you will trade with two other people.
b.
Personal Essay
(WE#5)—twenty minutes, then finish for homework
c.
Grammar Work
i. Join my www.noredink.com class now.
ii. CODE: 8m987vv9
iii. Join my class now, then
start answering the questions. There are
25 total, so I want you to open them tomorrow in class—I just want you to see
if you can answer one or two now, to make sure there are no bugs in the system
No comments:
Post a Comment