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
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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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