Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

Welcome to Creative Writing!

Happy Tuesday, April 15^th, 2014!

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Sharing:  Five Words to Save

1.      I pulled up the words you nominated from the Save the Words website, and each person named the one he/she’d most like to save.

2.     We talked about each one briefly.

3.     I reminded people they could use any of those words in their Death of Language assignment, if desired.

Workshop Time:  Death of Language

1.      I talked about three different people’s mid-way grade checks from yesterday. 

2.     I reminded people if they had a “4” on a reason, they should continue on in the same way.

3.     If people had “1,” “2”, or “3,” they need to do more work today and tomorrow to beef up their answers to the “A” range.

4.     I also reminded people to look at their grades side-by-side, and see if there was general agreement between their two graders.

5.     We had twenty minutes to work on this assignment, which is due THURSDAY, at the end of the block.

If You Finish Early

Diction Practice—Click on the link on my blog!  Make sure you’re in the class group!

1.      Play free rice at your BEST LEVEL (not starting over at Level 1) when you finish.

2.     10,000 grains are due by Thursday, April 17th, 2014.

Revision:  Earliest Memory Poem

1.      Look at an example of a thorough revision in or class folder.  This example is here anytime you need to review it.

2.     Read the Advice on Revising and Editing Poetry.

3.     Type three questions as the top of your poem that will help you revise.

4.     Carefully read my comments to you.

5.     Keeping #1-#4 above in mind, revise and edit your poem to excellence!

For an “A”, make at least fifteen revisions to your poem to make it stronger.  Here’s what you can do to revise:

1.      Create a strong title.

2.     Use strong diction—get out your Vocabulary Variety sheet!

3.     Add details to create more imagery in your poem.

4.     Delete unneeded words.

5.     Switch words and lines around to help the poem flow.

6.     Make all your line breaks strong.

Editing Note:  editing corrections need to be made, but they do not “count” as revisions.  But your final draft should be grammatically perfect, error-free.

Revising Note:  Click on “FILE”, then “SEE REVISION HISTORY”.  Count how many revisions you made—do you have at least ten?

If You Finish Early

Diction Practice—Click on the link on my blog!  Make sure you’re in the class group!

1.      Play free rice at your BEST LEVEL (not starting over at Level 1) when you finish.

2.     10,000 grains are due by Thursday, April 17th, 2014.