Monday, May 19th, 2014

Revision Checklist

Hello, and welcome to the last ten days of Creative Writing!

You have all of today’s classtime to work on the following.  What you don’t finish in class is homework, so work smart and focused.

I am using today to read and comment on your Sense Poems, which you will be revising tomorrow.  Please use this checklist as your teacher today; this will give me time to read your work.  

Daily Grade = A, C-, or F

Directions

1. MAKE A COPY of this doc.  Don’t type on this one.
2. Change the color of each item, as you complete it.
3. Do the following items in order--no skipping.  Thanks!

In the “USED” folder do all the following:

1. Open your Ogden Nash poem doc, and read my comments.
2. Drag this doc into your own personal “Creative Writing” folder.  When you do this, it will disappear from the class folder, and that’s CORRECT.
3. Open your Six-Word Story/Memoir doc, and read my comments.  (You may also have comments from a senior reader.)
4. Drag this doc into your own personal “Creative Writing” folder.  When you do this, it will disappear from the class folder, and that’s CORRECT.

In the “USED” folder, move the following pieces into your personal “Creative Writing” folder:

1. Earliest Memory
2. Ghosts, Monsters, Bullies
3. Russian Tailor

• Note:  These should NO LONGER APPEAR in our class folder--they should only be in YOUR personal folder.

Other Chores

1. Make sure you’ve typed your title and complete story in our class folder on the doc called, “Strongest Original Six-Word Memory”.
2. E-mail me (through your school g-mail) the following:  a three to five sentence explanation of what your portfolio is going to look like (VISION), and what you did this weekend, or prior to today, to make this VISION become a reality, a finish product (PREPARATION).

Revising Two Poems!

1. Re-read the doc entitled, “Advice for Revising and Editing Poetry,” but don’t type on it.  Make a copy, if you want to type on it.  Use this advice this week as your revise your poems.
2. Think back to Nick’s lesson on Friday.  What did we learn about other ways to revise?
1. letter sounds
2. words
3. phrases/images
4. line/sentence
5. stanza
6. whole poem
3. Re-read the following three poems, including the comments you received  (They should all be in YOUR personal Creative Writing folder now, not in the class folder):
1. Russian Tailor
2. Ghosts, Monsters and Bullies
3. Earliest Memory
4. Select TWO to revise.
5. Get two rubrics off the sign-in table, and start re-visioning your first poem.  This is the FINAL DRAFT, the knock-out version that’s going in your portfolio.
6. When you finish your first poem, complete the rubric, then turn it in.
7. Save this poem in our class folder, in the “Revised Poem #1” folder, “YOUR LAST NAME, REVISED POEM #1.”
8. Start on your second poem.
9. When you finish your second poem, complete the rubric, then turn it in.
10. Save this poem in our class folder, in the “Revised Poem #2” folder, as “YOUR LAST NAME, REVISED POEM #2.”