Week 1 Cre ative Writing Ms Moran Tuesday

Week 1: Cre ative Writing Ms. Moran

Tuesday September 8, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks can stay the same!

Do Now 0 Please complete the questions on the questionnaire.

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By Thursday, have a parent sign and return the syllabus // By Friday, finish writing and revising creation myths 0 Tuesday: Class Overview and Assembly! 0 Wednesday: Creation Myths 0 Thursday: Slam Poetry and Found Poems 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Write a detailed letter to your future self about your goals for the course and what you hope to achieve 0 Class Overview 0 Unit Overview 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Goal Setting 0 Ticket to Leave

Class Overview 0 Expectations: Be here. Be nice. Be prepared. Be ready. 0 Code Names: Real First name. Secret Name. 0 Grades: Posted every Monday. Our goal is 80% every week. 0 0 Homework (usually one long assignment per week) 20% Class participation (attendance and classwork)15% Projects (quizzes and presentations) 45%, Tests (exams and longer writing assignments) 20% 0 Shout Outs 0 0 0 Early with desks set up Homework handed in on time Going above and beyond expectations 80% grade Demonstrating leadership

Free Writing FREEWRITING RULES 0 1. Write without stopping (don’t let inner editor catch up. ) 0 2. Write for the whole time (after you have written everything you know, you write what you don’t know). 0 3. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar (until the final draft). 0 4. Follow the dog. (Follow those odd smells, sounds, images at the corner of your mind. ) FREEWRITING HINTS (if you are slow getting started) 0 1. Start in the present moment with what you are thinking and feeling 0 2. Describe your surroundings using all your senses. Describe how your body feels. 0 3. If you start to feel self-conscious or stiff in your writing, write about it!

Today’s Free Write 0 Write about your summer 10 minutes

Goal Setting 0 Write a letter to yourself to be delivered in January 2016 0 Handwrite or online: https: //www. futureme. org/ 0 What is going on in your life now that you hope is resolved by then? 0 What do you hope to learn in this class? 0 What would be the best thing that could happen to you between now and then? 0 What is one thing you hope you have changed about yourself between now and then? 0 What is one thing you hope you have learned?

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4)

Do Now 0 Find someone new in the class and introduce yourself. Tell them your: 0 Name 0 Favorite place in the world 0 Favorite smell

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By tomorrow, have a parent sign and return the syllabus // By Friday, finish writing and revising creation myths 0 Tuesday: Introduction 0 Wednesday: Creation Myths 0 Thursday: Slam Poetry and Found Poems 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Listen to creation myths and use the information to create a new creation myth 0 Class Overview Review 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Creation Myths 0 Ticket to Leave

Class Overview 0 Expectations: Be here. Be nice. Be prepared. Be ready. 0 Code Names: Real First name. Secret Name. 0 Grades: Posted every Monday. Our goal is 80% every week. 0 0 Homework (usually one long assignment per week) 20% Class participation (attendance and classwork)15% Projects (quizzes and presentations) 45%, Tests (exams and longer writing assignments) 20% 0 Shout Outs 0 0 0 Early with desks set up Homework handed in on time Going above and beyond expectations 80% grade Demonstrating leadership

Unit Overview 0 Creating Our Toolbox 0 Vocabulary 0 Free-writing 0 Free-form stories

Free Writing FREEWRITING RULES 0 1. Write without stopping (don’t let inner editor catch up. ) 0 2. Write for the whole time (after you have written everything you know, you write what you don’t know). 0 3. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar (until the final draft). 0 4. Follow the dog. (Follow those odd smells, sounds, images at the corner of your mind. ) FREEWRITING HINTS (if you are slow getting started) 0 1. Start in the present moment with what you are thinking and feeling 0 2. Describe your surroundings using all your senses. Describe how your body feels. 0 3. If you start to feel self-conscious or stiff in your writing, write about it!

Free Write 0 Imagine it is the year 600. You look up in the sky and see this sight. How do you explain it? 5 minutes

Today’s Vocabulary: Absolve 0 to declare or make someone innocent/guilt-free

Today’s Vocabulary: Alleviate 0 to make a problem/situation/condition less severe or harsh

Creation Myths 0 We will listen to 5 stories 0 After each story, write down characteristics of that story that you think were 0 0 0 Funny Interesting Smart Weird Something you would think

The Inca 0 http: //www. bigmyth. com/myths/english/2_inca_full. htm

The Navajo 0 http: //www. bigmyth. com/myths/english/2_navajo_f ull. htm

The Zulu 0 http: //www. bigmyth. com/myths/english/2_zulu_full. htm

The Egyptian 0 http: //www. bigmyth. com/myths/english/2_egyptian _full. htm

The Aboriginals 0 http: //www. bigmyth. com/myths/english/2_aborigin al_full. htm

Walk and Talk 0 Partner 1: Which myth was your favorite? 0 Partner 2: What was the weirdest thing you heard in a myth? 0 Partner 3: What is one part of the myth that you will use?

Ticket to Leave 0 Begin writing your myth. Due Friday. Can be illustrated. Should be re-checked for spelling / grammar.

Game! 0 2 truths and a lie

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Thursday, September 10, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4)

Do Now 0 Find a partner. Tell them what your favorite word is and why. 0 Some words don’t exist in English Mencolek (Indonesian): You know that old trick where you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them? The Indonesians have a word for it.

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By tomorrow, finish writing and revising creation myths 0 Tuesday: Setting Goals 0 Wednesday: Creation Myths 0 Thursday: Slam Poetry and Found Poems 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Listen to slam poems and write a found poem based on your favorite 0 Questions on myths? 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Slam Poems 0 Ticket to Leave

Questions on myths?

Free Writing FREEWRITING RULES 0 1. Write without stopping (don’t let inner editor catch up. ) 0 2. Write for the whole time (after you have written everything you know, you write what you don’t know). 0 3. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar (until the final draft). 0 4. Follow the dog. (Follow those odd smells, sounds, images at the corner of your mind. ) FREEWRITING HINTS (if you are slow getting started) 0 1. Start in the present moment with what you are thinking and feeling 0 2. Describe your surroundings using all your senses. Describe how your body feels. 0 3. If you start to feel self-conscious or stiff in your writing, write about it!

Free Write a creative response to this picture.

Today’s Vocabulary: Alternative 0 referring to a different choice or possibility

Slam Poem #1 0 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Vu. Ab. GJBv. IVY 0 Hands – Sarah Kay 0 Why does Kay focus only on hands? 0 What is the power in focusing on a single object?

Slam Poem #2 0 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=F 9 ZRy. Zc. W_ac 0 What Teachers Make- by Taylor Mali 0 What is Mali’s message? 0 What meaning does this poem have for you?

Slam Poem #3 0 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=m. VPJz 8 CWE-M 0 Falling in Like- Big Poppa E 0 Why does Big Poppa E focus on like and not love? 0 How can you connect with this poem? Or not?

Found Poems 0 Choose one poem 0 Using only words from that poem, create a new poem 0 You may use words more than once. You may not use words that do not appear in the poem. 0 Your goal is to provide your audience with a feel of the poem without reading the actual poem.

Ticket to Leave 0 Praise another classmate’s poem or contribution to class. Be specific! What did you like about what they did?

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Friday, September 11, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 2)

Do Now 0 Vocabulary quiz. Use each of the three words in a sentence. 0 Alleviate 0 Absolve 0 Alternative

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: Enjoy your weekend 0 Tuesday: Setting Goals 0 Wednesday: Creation Myths 0 Thursday: Slam Poetry and Found Poems 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Write a poem based on reading the first line 0 Hand in myths (sharing? !!) 0 Writing poem 0 Reading Poem 0 Ticket to Leave

Poem Writing 0 Independently, you are going to write a poem based on the first line of a famous poem. If you would rather work with a partner, just ask. “You’re seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk”

Reading 0 Deer Hit by Jon Loomis

Ticket to Leave

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