Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 (1:10 Dismissal Schedule)

Welcome to Creative Writing!       

Happy Wednesday, May 7^th, 2014

1:10 Dismissal Schedule

1^st:  8:10-9:15

2^nd:  9:20-10:20

3^rd:  11:30-1:10

When You Come In

1.      Please sign in.

Homework Reminder

·      Homework Due Friday = 25,000 grains in free rice (last free rice assignment)

Writing Buddies

Please put these dates on your calendar.  Don’t be absent!  L

1.      Tuesday, May 13^th

2.     Thursday, May 15^th

a.     Kailey M. has to be absent (1^st).

3.     Wednesday, May 21st

Focus for the Last Nineteen Days

1.      Showing, Not Just Telling

2.     Revision

3.     Writing Buddies

4.     Portfolio

Writing Lesson Review:  Show, Don’t Just Tell—How to Create Imagery

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)

Class Discussion:  Writing Lesson—Line Breaks!

Pair-share, then whole-class discussion

1.      Why did you break the lines where you did?

2.     Why did the writers break the lines where they did?  (originals)

3.     What’s the difference between an end-stopped line, and enjambment? 

4.    What techniques have you been using in the poems you’ve written?

Line Break Form Link:
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/forms/d/1GDUdjJBMluVyBVmzZPmKF89DGAwJhCWrxCwu-H4pjZY/viewform?usp=send_form

KEEP IN MIND OUR LESSONS OVER SHOWING, NOT JUST TELLING, and HOW TO CREATE STRONG LINE BREAKS as you REVISE your AUTOBIO POEM!

Revision Preparation

1.      Look at the three poems you’ve revised so far, and find the one you got a fifteen (or your highest score) on.  (They are saved in our class folder, under the name of each assignment.)

2.     What did you do to earn a solid grade on that assignment?

3.     Read and consider Stephanie Fishback’s model in the class folder.

4.    Get out your Vocabulary Variety sheet.

5.     Okay, now I think you’re ready to revise!

Poetry Revision:  Autobiographical Poem (p. 22)

1.      We are revising today to a second draft. 

2.     You’ll make AT LEAST FIFTEEN changes, and probably many more:

a.     Add concrete details—specifics and examples

b.    Add details from all five senses

                                      i.     Colors and visuals

                                    ii.     Textures

                                   iii.     Sounds

                                   iv.     Tastes

                                    v.     Smells

c.     Subtract words or lines that aren’t strengthening the poem.

d.    Switch words and lines around.

e.     Take one word out and substitute another, stronger word.  Use your Vocabulary Variety sheet and thesaurus.com.

f.      Experiment with your line breaks—keep in mind everything you just learned and talked on the line breaks doc, and make thoughtful decisions on where you’re breaking your lines, and why.

g.    Create a strong title that does not have any of the following words in it:  I, me my

3.     Leave this poem in the class google folder.

I’M GOING TO HAVE SENIORS READ AND COMMENT ON YOUR POEM!  COME SEE THE LIST OF NAMES, and LET ME KNOW IF THERE IS SOMEONE YOU’D RATHER NOT READ YOUR STUFF!