Thursday, December 9, 2010
It's "GO" Time!
Okay everyone! Your rough draft is due when you walk into class on Monday! Your final draft will be due at the end of Monday. Today, focus on writing your paper. If, by the end of class, you have finished 4+ pages, print them out and get ready to bring them on Monday. If you'd like to work on your paper at home, make sure you make arrangements to have it in your hands first thing Monday to get those points. Remember: the most important parts are the conflice and the major turning point. Good luck! Have fun! I will see you Monday.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Online Article for Wednesday December 1st
Hello everyone. My son is sick. Here are the plans for your day! Please find an online magazine, newspaper, news source of some kind.(omaha.com, cnn.com, Sports Center, etc.) Type five intriguing titles to five articles that you find on the top of your Word document. Using only ONE of the titles, create a two page story from it. This needs to be inspired simply by the title. No other information is needed. This should be double spaced, about two pages, and full of creativity, voice, with a focus on the unexpected. Focus on suspense and try your luck with symbolism. Here's an example of the beginning of a story from the article title:
Ancient Shadow Boxes Tell More than One Story:
"I was sure this was the lock to which Mark was referring before he passed on. His parched, cracked lips had whispered, "Lock 12". I knew what I had to do. I owed it to Mark to try the key he sacrificed his life for in the lock, but I had also heard the seemingly harmless shadow boxes were known explode at the first sign of tampering due to the extreme paranoia of the government at this point in what was turning into World War III. What was in this box behind the trinkets could finally prove that the 7th Swiss Prime Minister who hid behind a veil of neutrality, was actually to blame for all of the blood shed in the Americas. As I dug the key out of my pocket, I noticed the dried blood covered the number. I scraped it off and jammed the key into the lock. As I began to turn the key, unnatural shivers began to crawl up my right arm."
Let the titles guide you. Please DON'T PANIC about the lack of instructions or detail to this assignment. Do not limit yourself by details. When you are finished, turn this in to the "Handins" folder or print it. When you are done, go to the "handouts" and find your journal topic listed under "Journal". You may type this journal or write it in your actual journal. Have fun with the names, but really try your best to finish these two things IN class. You are excellent, and I will see you Friday. Those of you leaving on your trip on Thursday, have fun! I'll catch up with you next week.
Ancient Shadow Boxes Tell More than One Story:
"I was sure this was the lock to which Mark was referring before he passed on. His parched, cracked lips had whispered, "Lock 12". I knew what I had to do. I owed it to Mark to try the key he sacrificed his life for in the lock, but I had also heard the seemingly harmless shadow boxes were known explode at the first sign of tampering due to the extreme paranoia of the government at this point in what was turning into World War III. What was in this box behind the trinkets could finally prove that the 7th Swiss Prime Minister who hid behind a veil of neutrality, was actually to blame for all of the blood shed in the Americas. As I dug the key out of my pocket, I noticed the dried blood covered the number. I scraped it off and jammed the key into the lock. As I began to turn the key, unnatural shivers began to crawl up my right arm."
Let the titles guide you. Please DON'T PANIC about the lack of instructions or detail to this assignment. Do not limit yourself by details. When you are finished, turn this in to the "Handins" folder or print it. When you are done, go to the "handouts" and find your journal topic listed under "Journal". You may type this journal or write it in your actual journal. Have fun with the names, but really try your best to finish these two things IN class. You are excellent, and I will see you Friday. Those of you leaving on your trip on Thursday, have fun! I'll catch up with you next week.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Please Read the Following Information
Symbolism in Literature
The symbols that make their way into novels don’t have to be traditional, well-recognized ones. Like allusions, they can be obvious or very subtle. For example, the fussy, delicate fine china cup and saucer that is regularly used as Grandma’s special cup may come to represent that person. If it gets broken later in the novel, it could mean that Grandma’s time is up.
That same cup and saucer, appearing on the breakfast table every morning, could represent a marriage of many years; a chip or crack could appear in it with the passage of time but it remains in service. The day Martha hears that George has been unfaithful to her, she drops the cup in disbelief or throws it at the wall , depending on her temperament.
When an item is mentioned rather regularly throughout a novel, especially a personal item belonging to one of the principal characters, the reader must ask what it might symbolize.
Incorporating Symbolic Meaning in Creative Writing
In writing a novel, it is unlikely that the writer will sit, pen poised, and say, “Now, what symbol will I devise for John’s love or Mary’s determination?”
It is far more likely that one will emerge. The subconscious mind is an amazing hidey-hole: it will inspire the writer to throw something on the page that he or she will later realize works well as a symbol. This is hardly surprising, given that Freud and Jung consider our subconscious minds to be metaphysical black holes where shadows, symbols, and universal mythic beasties lurk.
The Value of Symbolism for Writers
When crafting a novel, the novelist takes the initial bright idea and draws up a one-sentence plot statement. From that, the writer can draw out an underlying theme (such as jealousy or crime doesn’t pay) which will then underpin the plot and subplots and create a sense of unity for the story. By assigning symbols for certain human qualities, and incorporating allusions to classical works that reflect the theme, the writer can enhance the theme and further weave elements of the story together.
Sometimes, the writer might need to go back in a second or subsequent draft and alter the plot to insert more references to the symbols that have emerged, strengthen their meaning and draw attention to them subtly. Is that cheating? No, it is just one more aspect of the writer’s craft.
The symbols that make their way into novels don’t have to be traditional, well-recognized ones. Like allusions, they can be obvious or very subtle. For example, the fussy, delicate fine china cup and saucer that is regularly used as Grandma’s special cup may come to represent that person. If it gets broken later in the novel, it could mean that Grandma’s time is up.
That same cup and saucer, appearing on the breakfast table every morning, could represent a marriage of many years; a chip or crack could appear in it with the passage of time but it remains in service. The day Martha hears that George has been unfaithful to her, she drops the cup in disbelief or throws it at the wall , depending on her temperament.
When an item is mentioned rather regularly throughout a novel, especially a personal item belonging to one of the principal characters, the reader must ask what it might symbolize.
Incorporating Symbolic Meaning in Creative Writing
In writing a novel, it is unlikely that the writer will sit, pen poised, and say, “Now, what symbol will I devise for John’s love or Mary’s determination?”
It is far more likely that one will emerge. The subconscious mind is an amazing hidey-hole: it will inspire the writer to throw something on the page that he or she will later realize works well as a symbol. This is hardly surprising, given that Freud and Jung consider our subconscious minds to be metaphysical black holes where shadows, symbols, and universal mythic beasties lurk.
The Value of Symbolism for Writers
When crafting a novel, the novelist takes the initial bright idea and draws up a one-sentence plot statement. From that, the writer can draw out an underlying theme (such as jealousy or crime doesn’t pay) which will then underpin the plot and subplots and create a sense of unity for the story. By assigning symbols for certain human qualities, and incorporating allusions to classical works that reflect the theme, the writer can enhance the theme and further weave elements of the story together.
Sometimes, the writer might need to go back in a second or subsequent draft and alter the plot to insert more references to the symbols that have emerged, strengthen their meaning and draw attention to them subtly. Is that cheating? No, it is just one more aspect of the writer’s craft.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Poetry Portfolio
Poetry Project
Name: ____________________________________________ Due Date: A-day, Thursday, November 17th, B-days, Friday, November 18th.
As a culmination of our Poetry Unit, you will create a Poetry Portfolio. You will choose 12 formats and some you may want to use more than once. You will then compile these poetry pages into a portfolio.
Requirements:
• Each poem must have a unique title. There will be 12 of them!
• You may use seven poems previously submitted
• Choose a poetic theme for your portfolio. Each poem must have that theme incorporated in some way. **See my example**
• The “format” of each poem must be listed on the poetry page somewhere.
• The portfolio must have a creative cover, with the title of your collection on it. (Wordle is appropriate)
• If Wordle is not your creative style, you must have a title page that symbolizes your poetry, your theme, and you. See me if Wordle is not your choice.
• The portfolio must be bound in some way neatly. This is a FINAL collection of your best work. Anything submitted messily will be graded as such.
• Each poem must be on its own page.
• Poems must be 15 lines or longer unless it is a form poem like the Ghazal. If you choose to make a Haikus, then you have to put five on a page to make the 15 line limit.
• You will have ample time in class to work on this project if you use your time wisely. You will be presenting your favorite poem that you have created on our open mic poetry party day. Please star this one so I know it’s the one. Also, practice reading it aloud as you will have to read the ENTIRE poem that day.
• Every day this portfolio is late will be 10% off. It starts as 100 points.
• After you reuse seven previously submitted poems, you may write all others in any form you choose. I have a list of forms in the handouts; you may use the poetry text, Internet, free form of your choice, etc. These are your artistic decisions.
• A-day: In order to pull this off, you will need to create about two poems per day. You can do this. This is ALL you will be working on today, Tuesday, and Thursday. It is due by the END of the period Thursday.
• B-day: In order to pull this off, you will need to create about two poems per day. You can do this. This is ALL you will be working on today, Wednesday, and Friday. It is due by the END of the period Friday
Name: ____________________________________________ Due Date: A-day, Thursday, November 17th, B-days, Friday, November 18th.
As a culmination of our Poetry Unit, you will create a Poetry Portfolio. You will choose 12 formats and some you may want to use more than once. You will then compile these poetry pages into a portfolio.
Requirements:
• Each poem must have a unique title. There will be 12 of them!
• You may use seven poems previously submitted
• Choose a poetic theme for your portfolio. Each poem must have that theme incorporated in some way. **See my example**
• The “format” of each poem must be listed on the poetry page somewhere.
• The portfolio must have a creative cover, with the title of your collection on it. (Wordle is appropriate)
• If Wordle is not your creative style, you must have a title page that symbolizes your poetry, your theme, and you. See me if Wordle is not your choice.
• The portfolio must be bound in some way neatly. This is a FINAL collection of your best work. Anything submitted messily will be graded as such.
• Each poem must be on its own page.
• Poems must be 15 lines or longer unless it is a form poem like the Ghazal. If you choose to make a Haikus, then you have to put five on a page to make the 15 line limit.
• You will have ample time in class to work on this project if you use your time wisely. You will be presenting your favorite poem that you have created on our open mic poetry party day. Please star this one so I know it’s the one. Also, practice reading it aloud as you will have to read the ENTIRE poem that day.
• Every day this portfolio is late will be 10% off. It starts as 100 points.
• After you reuse seven previously submitted poems, you may write all others in any form you choose. I have a list of forms in the handouts; you may use the poetry text, Internet, free form of your choice, etc. These are your artistic decisions.
• A-day: In order to pull this off, you will need to create about two poems per day. You can do this. This is ALL you will be working on today, Tuesday, and Thursday. It is due by the END of the period Thursday.
• B-day: In order to pull this off, you will need to create about two poems per day. You can do this. This is ALL you will be working on today, Wednesday, and Friday. It is due by the END of the period Friday
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Truce/Conflict Poem Requirements
Guidelines
·24+ lines
·Discuss Conflict AND Truce or Resolution
·Use enjambment when appropriate
·May or may not rhyme
·24+ lines
·Discuss Conflict AND Truce or Resolution
·Use enjambment when appropriate
·May or may not rhyme
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Poetry From Art
Assignment: Choose one of the pictures to create a poem. In your poem, you should have at least six stanzas with four lines in each stanza. You must include enough instances of alliteration, assonance, or consonance to be significant. Your poem should be in free verse. In it, the readers should be able to tell the point-of-view, the mood, the setting, etc. Be clear and be consistent. Have fun. Remember, this is what YOU see in the picture. It's your interpretation. Sometimes it's easier to copy and paste the picture you are viewing to a word document.
When you are finished, you need to create a one page journal entry. In it, you need to vent about situations, events, people in your life that are stressful to you. This assignment will help you for Monday. MAKE SURE you turn in all outstanding poetry. It is very hard to get caught up if you fall behind in poetry. You are fantastic. Have fun.
Monday, October 25, 2010
So This Is...
Assignment #3:
Create a six-eight stanza poem entitled: So This is ___________. Finish that statement with Nebraska, Omaha or Millard. In this poem, your feelings about this place must be obvious. In Kooser's Nebraska, he describes a rural area and the sights from a car on a gravel road. Be clear in your work from where you are viewing "your" Nebraska/Omaha/MSHS. What do you see? Who do you see? What do you like? What don't you care for? Name your sights, sounds, touch, etc. In addition, play with personification. Have at least two examples of this in your poem. Prepare to turn this in on Wednesday.
Create a six-eight stanza poem entitled: So This is ___________. Finish that statement with Nebraska, Omaha or Millard. In this poem, your feelings about this place must be obvious. In Kooser's Nebraska, he describes a rural area and the sights from a car on a gravel road. Be clear in your work from where you are viewing "your" Nebraska/Omaha/MSHS. What do you see? Who do you see? What do you like? What don't you care for? Name your sights, sounds, touch, etc. In addition, play with personification. Have at least two examples of this in your poem. Prepare to turn this in on Wednesday.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Music
Find two songs that exemplify good poetry. Here is a site that works for me. Copy and paste it to your browser. Have fun!
http://search.azlyrics.com
Mrs. Adams
http://search.azlyrics.com
Mrs. Adams
Monday, October 4, 2010
Music = Life
Hello. In preparation for our poetry unit study on lyrical poetry, I would like you to prepare a visual representation of a specific artist/group that speaks to you. You may not be sure at this point WHY you like him/her/them, but this assignment is designed to help you do that. Here is how you start:
1.Research your chosen musician/musical group via the Internet, Rolling Stone, etc. Spend your time finding out about their background, what they like, why they write the way they do, etc. Take notes so that you may be able to tell about it later.
2. Look through your favorite songs and their lyrics. Choose some of the best ones to highlight on your poster. Also, see if you can find quotes from them.
3. Find a picture of your artist for the middle and central focus of the poster.
4. Find pictures that symbolize what they stand for, where they are going in life, their beliefs, what they symbolize for you, what type of music do they play, etc.
5. Find one word that would define this person or these people to have as a central focus of your poster as well.
CREATE
Use the Internet, use your artistic skills, use magazines, etc. to make this visual. Fill the entire paper with these requirements.
This project is due the 11th or the 12th of October.
Have fun.
1.Research your chosen musician/musical group via the Internet, Rolling Stone, etc. Spend your time finding out about their background, what they like, why they write the way they do, etc. Take notes so that you may be able to tell about it later.
2. Look through your favorite songs and their lyrics. Choose some of the best ones to highlight on your poster. Also, see if you can find quotes from them.
3. Find a picture of your artist for the middle and central focus of the poster.
4. Find pictures that symbolize what they stand for, where they are going in life, their beliefs, what they symbolize for you, what type of music do they play, etc.
5. Find one word that would define this person or these people to have as a central focus of your poster as well.
CREATE
Use the Internet, use your artistic skills, use magazines, etc. to make this visual. Fill the entire paper with these requirements.
This project is due the 11th or the 12th of October.
Have fun.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Mrs. Adams is Gone Today
Hello. Please make sure to turn in your character sketch to the substitute with the green sheet attached. That is due today. Next, begin brainstorming for your short story. Your rough draft will be due in two periods, so please make sure you work hard. Remember that it is 5-10 pages in length and it can be about anything. You need to make sure you have a conflict and a climax in order to pass this 100 point project. I will explain more about the short story on Thursday, but definitely get a good start. Game players, please note that you get graded for how focused you are each work day as we need to use ALL the time we have. Do not get caught playing games or you will not receive your points for the day. This is 100 points. Have fun with it because you can write about anything you'd like. Please email me at taadams@mpsomaha.org if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them today. Thank you everyone, and please have a fantastic day.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Character Sketch
2-3 pages
12 pt. Font
Double spaced
Title is the character's name
50 points
Due at the end of Friday and beginning of Monday
12 pt. Font
Double spaced
Title is the character's name
50 points
Due at the end of Friday and beginning of Monday
Monday, September 13, 2010
Polished Piece
First Polished Piece Requirements
Ideas and Content
Show vs. Telling
Descriptive Detail using senses
Appropriate use of similes and metaphors
Irony, if used, is purposeful and meaningful
Characters are consistent in voice, physicality, and language
Action is appropriate for length
Sophisticated language
Mechanics
Use proper grammar and punctuation
USE SPELL CHECK PLEASE
Use dialogue if appropriate
Dialogue must be punctuated correctly.
Consistent tenses (no shifts)
Revision
If an old piece is used for this, it should show obvious revision from base piece
Rough draft and final draft should be turned in together
Author MUST understand that this is the first heavily weighted grade
All components from above must be included
When typing rough draft, you must put your author # instead of your name.
Author number _______________
Ideas and Content
Show vs. Telling
Descriptive Detail using senses
Appropriate use of similes and metaphors
Irony, if used, is purposeful and meaningful
Characters are consistent in voice, physicality, and language
Action is appropriate for length
Sophisticated language
Mechanics
Use proper grammar and punctuation
USE SPELL CHECK PLEASE
Use dialogue if appropriate
Dialogue must be punctuated correctly.
Consistent tenses (no shifts)
Revision
If an old piece is used for this, it should show obvious revision from base piece
Rough draft and final draft should be turned in together
Author MUST understand that this is the first heavily weighted grade
All components from above must be included
When typing rough draft, you must put your author # instead of your name.
Author number _______________
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Scene with a Secret
Today's Assignment:
Create a 2-3 page (double spaced) story called: A Scene with a Secret. Look over your T-Chart from last week. The trick is to start off with a normal scene and bleed in the tiny details from the right side of the chart that something unexpected is about to happen. The reader shouldn't find out until the end, what has actually happened. This is due next class. Have it in your hand when you walk into class.
Create a 2-3 page (double spaced) story called: A Scene with a Secret. Look over your T-Chart from last week. The trick is to start off with a normal scene and bleed in the tiny details from the right side of the chart that something unexpected is about to happen. The reader shouldn't find out until the end, what has actually happened. This is due next class. Have it in your hand when you walk into class.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Dialogue Activity
Please copy and paste the link below. Read the directions and complete the assignment on a word document. This is due by the end of the class. Please print your assignment off and hand in to the teacher. Finally, grab a journal assignment sheet for homework.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/feb2004/p30-32_master_class_dialogue.pdf
Mrs. Adams
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/feb2004/p30-32_master_class_dialogue.pdf
Mrs. Adams
Friday, August 27, 2010
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
Today we are practicing our writing analysis. Take your Edgar Allen Poe atmosphere paper and turn it into a 1-2 page paper. (Double spaced). Here are your constraints:
1. Make sure you have a 1st person narrator in your story. You are experiencing this place from that character's point of view. Consider this your "Place Piece" with a 1st person voice.
2. Give us an example of your character in their place from their perspective. This can be anyone you have created. If you reread your atmosphere notes, and you have changed your mind about the character or the scene, that's fine. Work with something new.
3. Please feel free to add dialogue with another character, but have a strong 1st person narrator.
4. Through your character, we should be able to tell how he/she/it feels about the place he/she/it is in.
Today we are practicing our writing analysis. Take your Edgar Allen Poe atmosphere paper and turn it into a 1-2 page paper. (Double spaced). Here are your constraints:
1. Make sure you have a 1st person narrator in your story. You are experiencing this place from that character's point of view. Consider this your "Place Piece" with a 1st person voice.
2. Give us an example of your character in their place from their perspective. This can be anyone you have created. If you reread your atmosphere notes, and you have changed your mind about the character or the scene, that's fine. Work with something new.
3. Please feel free to add dialogue with another character, but have a strong 1st person narrator.
4. Through your character, we should be able to tell how he/she/it feels about the place he/she/it is in.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Literature
We've discussed that good writers tend to be avid readers. Your assignment: Find one of your favorite books or a book that you think looks interesting. Read or re-read the first chapter of this book. While you read, notice the use of sensory detail to set up the atmosphere of the piece. On a Microsoft Word document, find at least five different passages to illuminate. Once you have typed your passage, discuss why you have chosen it. Again, you need to appreciate how this passage adds to the atmosphere of the piece. Authors are very specific about their choices. Try to find the method to the madness. An example has been done for you below:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Gatsby who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Fitzgerald chooses his words carefully to write about his obsession with Gatsby. His "unaffected scorn" provides him some frustration at his unconscious choices, but he couldn't get over the fact that there was "something gorgeous" about him. There was something attracting him to Gatsby he could not explain. He uses sight with the beauty component and touch with the comparison to a machine that "registers earthquakes".
OR
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
"The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone. A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators, and I thought I could smell, faintly like an afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat, shot through with the sweet taint of chewing gum and perfume from the watching girls, felt-skirted as I knew from pictures, later in minskirts, then pants, then in one earring, spiky green-streaked hair."
Atwood uses sight and scent to describe her scene. This is so important because she is portraying how different life used to be. She implies the evolution of people before her and what used to be acceptable. She also uses this description to demonstrate the rancid conditions of using a gymnasium for a home by employing words like "pungent" and "sweat". However, the scent implies a life more free than her own. She's detached from feeling, but she unwillingly lets the surroundings affect her.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Gatsby who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
Fitzgerald chooses his words carefully to write about his obsession with Gatsby. His "unaffected scorn" provides him some frustration at his unconscious choices, but he couldn't get over the fact that there was "something gorgeous" about him. There was something attracting him to Gatsby he could not explain. He uses sight with the beauty component and touch with the comparison to a machine that "registers earthquakes".
OR
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
"The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone. A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators, and I thought I could smell, faintly like an afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat, shot through with the sweet taint of chewing gum and perfume from the watching girls, felt-skirted as I knew from pictures, later in minskirts, then pants, then in one earring, spiky green-streaked hair."
Atwood uses sight and scent to describe her scene. This is so important because she is portraying how different life used to be. She implies the evolution of people before her and what used to be acceptable. She also uses this description to demonstrate the rancid conditions of using a gymnasium for a home by employing words like "pungent" and "sweat". However, the scent implies a life more free than her own. She's detached from feeling, but she unwillingly lets the surroundings affect her.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Atmosphere
Please visit the following site and follow the instructions. You will also need to open a Microsoft Word document to complete the assignment. Happy reading/creating.
Mrs. Adams
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/nov_dec2003/p34-36_master_class_atmosphere_poe.pdf
Mrs. Adams
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/nov_dec2003/p34-36_master_class_atmosphere_poe.pdf
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Sensory Description
Today:
Finish your autobiographies
Begin Exercise #1 Sensory Details. Please read the directions and type or hand write a formal document. It is due next time. Turn them into the handouts when finished.
Homework:
Journal #1 as per the handout. Please make sure you read what is expected of you carefully. I will check for completion of these on the following letter day.
Happiness writing.
Mrs. Adams
Finish your autobiographies
Begin Exercise #1 Sensory Details. Please read the directions and type or hand write a formal document. It is due next time. Turn them into the handouts when finished.
Homework:
Journal #1 as per the handout. Please make sure you read what is expected of you carefully. I will check for completion of these on the following letter day.
Happiness writing.
Mrs. Adams
Friday, August 13, 2010
Autobiography
It is important for you to have a good grasp on who you are and where you are coming from in order to be a creative and an effective writer. In addition, it's important for ME to know about where you've been and where you are going. Please write a short autobiography of yourself on a Microsoft Word Document. You must write in 12 point font, and you must double space. This paper should be a past/present/future glimpse of you. Tell me where you began, where you are, and where you think you are going in terms of writing, goals, interests, etc. This has at least a one page requirement, but feel free to write more.
Please turn it in to the "Hand ins" folder for creative writing under the "My Computer" icon.
This is due by the next class.
Please turn it in to the "Hand ins" folder for creative writing under the "My Computer" icon.
This is due by the next class.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Creative Writing 2010-2011
Welcome students! I'm so glad you are in Creative Writing this semester. This blog is a resource for you in case you have missed class or need more detailed directions on an assignment. Remember, creative writing is a class where you can grow as a writer as well as a person. I'm so excited to work with you and your writing this semester. Again, Welcome!
-Mrs. Adams
-Mrs. Adams
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Dialogue Activity
Please copy and paste the link below. Read the directions and complete the assignment on a word document. This is due by the end of the class. Please print your assignment off and hand in to the teacher. Finally, grab a journal assignment sheet for homework.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/feb2004/p30-32_master_class_dialogue.pdf
Mrs. Adams
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/feb2004/p30-32_master_class_dialogue.pdf
Mrs. Adams
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