Wednesday, June 13 2018

Creative Writing:  Wednesday June 13

FINALS DAY

Agenda:

1.  Assemble portfolios (10 min.)

2. Food (10 min)

3. Gallery Walk and give feedback to fellow classmates (35-
40 min).

4. Once we are finished, grade yourself on the rubric (5 min)

And, ON THE BACK, justify why you graded yourself that way.

5. Metaphor races in table groups

6. PICK UP YOUR GRADED PORTFOLIOS TOMORROW
(THURSDAY) IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THEM. THEY WILL
BE RECYCLED FRIDAY, IF IT IS NOT PICKED UP.

Monday, June 11 2018

Creative Writing:  Monday June 11

Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...

W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of Poetry using
imagery, engaging details and language.

Homework:  

Work on Final Reflection- Due day of finals, Wednesday, June 13th

Agenda:

1. Continue Poetry Unit a. Work on your Final Reflection- Due day of finals, Wednesday, June 13th 

b. Work on poems for portfolio

2. Finals Feast: What can you bring for us to eat/drink as we
look at and celebrate your portfolios?

Friday, June 8 2018

Creative Writing:  Friday June 8

Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...

W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of Poetry using imagery,
engaging details and language.

Homework:  

Work on Final Reflection- Due day of finals, Wednesday,
June 13th

Agenda:

1. Calendar/Agenda (2 min).
2. Share “I Am” Parody and Cinquain

3. Continue Poetry Unit
Finals: Work on your Final Reflection- Due day of finals, Wednesday, June 13th
Rhyming: Continue work on Villanelle/Pantoum
Structure: ABC/Acrostic/
Structure: Reverse poems (see handout)
Parody: “My Car” Parody- see handout


4. Finals Feast: What can you bring for us to eat/drink as
we look at and celebrate your portfolios?

Acrostic Poem

Spelling out "candy"...

Crunchy chewy

Awesome

Nice and sweet

Delightful and delicious

Yummy treat

ABC

Wednesday, June 6 2018

Creative Writing: Wednesday June 6
Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...
W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of Poetry using imagery, engaging details and language.

Homework:
Work on Final Reflection/portfolio and poetry

Agenda: COLLECT SHORT STORY REVISIONS
1. Calendar/Agenda (2 min).
2. Share Haiku and “This is just to say”
3. Write Sonnet (20 min.)

A

B                                  OR   AABB

A

B

C

D                                OR   CCDD

C

D

E

F                                  OR    EEFF

E

F 

G

G

4. Continue Poetry Unit
a. Work on your Final reflection and portfolio
b. Rhyming: Villanelle, Pantoum (see Handouts)
c. Structure: Cinquain (see below)
d. “I am” Parody (see Handouts)

Cinquain template and example:
Name,
2 adjectives that describe character,
3 Verbs that express action,
A 4 word phrase,
One to two words related to character


Derek
Determined, undaunted,
Weight-lifting, paper correcting, relaxing
A man among men
Teddy bear

Monday, June 4 2018

Creative Writing:  Monday June 4

Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...

W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of Poetry using
imagery, engaging details and language.

Homework:  

Work on Final Reflection
Short Story revisions due Wednesday, June 6, beginning of class.

Agenda:

1. Calendar/Agenda (2 min).

2. Continue Poetry Unit
a. Work on your Final
b. Rhyming: Sonnet
c. Structure: Haiku
d. “This is just to say” Parody

Sonnet (14 lines and a rhyme scheme- alternating or couplets)

“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus (1883)

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame,

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Haiku:

The wren

Earns his living

Noiselessly.

- Kobayahsi Issa

Fall Haiku 

Confused by weather
The woman on the subway
Wears socks and sandals.

--Stacey Harwood

This is just to say:

This Is Just to Say
— William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

This Is Just To Say

I have seen

That hot guy

Across

The street

And which

You were probably

Looking

At too

Forgive me

But I

Saw him

First

This is Just to Say

I have shaved

your cat

you kept in

the garage.

and which

you probably wanted

furry,

to pet.

Forgive me,

he was just

so hairy

and gross.

Friday, June 1 2018

Creative Writing:  Friday June 1

Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...

W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of Poetry using
imagery, engaging details and language.

Homework:  

Work on Final Reflection

Agenda:

1. Calendar/Agenda (2 min).

2. Print Nonfiction piece in library 10-15 min.

3. Gallery Walk and comment

4. Senior finals

5. Begin Poetry Unit

1. Your Final Reflection
2. Rhyming: Limerick, Clarihew,
3. Examples

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Creative Writing:  Wednesday May 30

Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...

W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of creative Nonfiction
using imagery, engaging details and language.

Homework:  

Due date for Non-fiction paper/infographic Friday, June 1-
No exceptions, No excuses, No revisions

Agenda:

1. Calendar/Agenda (2 min).

2.Writing into the room:Fill out goal sheet for today- What will
you accomplish in our short time together?

3. Your ticket out of class: Did you accomplish this work on your
Nonfiction piece? Show me evidence or you stay w/ me:)

4. Work in Library on paper