 By Aaron Kurtz  Poetry  Children’s Books  Short Stories.

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 By Aaron Kurtz

 Poetry  Children’s Books  Short Stories

 Popular Authors o Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree Where the Sidewalk Ends o Robert Frost Poems  Getting Ideas o Brainstorming o Random activities Topic prompts

 Poem Forms o Ballad o Haiku o Limerick o Sonnet o Blank Verse o Sestina  Activities o Emulate the Masters Use as introduction o Creative Workshop Use to develop skills o Poetry Slam Use to express creativity

 Develops… o Structure Must follow verse form o Contained Creativity Must utilize a finite length o Creative Expression Endless possibilities

 Popular Authors o Chris van Allsburg The Wreck of the Zephyr o Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar o Steven Kellogg Pecos Bill  Getting Ideas o Web outline o Story generator o Draw on experience

 Book Ideas o Teach something How to… o Relate a memory Favorite Christmas o Emulate popular book … from the Black Lagoon  Activities o Children Book Unit Generate idea 2-3 days Outline story 2-3 days Write story 3 days Illustrate story 1 week Assemble book 2 days

 Develops… o Structure Must have consistency o Creativity Illustrating, story content, and book construction o Perseverance Takes longer than poems to create

 Popular Authors o Washington Irving “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” o O. Henry “The Gift of the Magi” o Jack London “To Build a Fire”  Getting Ideas o Idea generators o Brainstorming o Story prompts

 Story Forms o Fiction o Non-fiction o Narrative o Third person o First person o Genre specific Fantasy Western Mystery  Activities o Short Story Unit Generate ideas Pick an idea Develop idea Write story Edit/Rewrite Publish as one volume Bookemon

 Develops… o Major writing elements Plot, setting, characters, continuity, fluency, mechanics, etc. o Discipline Takes time to create and edit o Accomplishment Seeing it published

 For the graph o  Poem forms o o

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