Week 2: Creative Writing Ms. Moran

Monday, September 14, Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

Do Now 0 Find a person in class who is “newer” to you. Share one interesting fact about yourself.

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By tomorrow, bring in one artifact from your childhood (picture/object) // By Thursday, have revised autobiography ready to share. 0 Monday: Name activities 0 Tuesday: Childhood memories 0 Wednesday: 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Thursday: Presentation of Autobiography 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Read an account that focuses on the importance of a name and write about the significance of your name 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Name stations 0 Name generators 0 Ticket to Leave

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) Don’t worry about spelling or grammar (until the final draft) 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 If you start to feel self-conscious or stiff in your writing, write about it!

Today’s Free Write 0 Write about someone named Ollie Pantoja 7 minutes

Today’s Vocabulary: Ambivalent 0 having mixed, contradictory feelings about something or someone

Stations about names 0 At each of four stations, you will find either a reading or activity 0 At each station, one person reads the poem/story aloud 0 What are the names in the story? 0 How are those names important? 0 Are the names experiences positively or negatively? 0 What connections can you make to the author’s feelings about names? 0 *Use one colored paper per station*

Station 4 0 Pet names: names/index.html#.Ver9gCxVikqhttp:// names/index.html#.Ver9gCxVikq 0 How many people have your name? Random name generator:

Ticket to Leave 0 Share out one thing you learned about the importance of names either for yourself or for others

Game! 0 This one time I…

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Tuesday, September 15, Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

Do Now 0 Find a NEW partner and discuss these two quotes: “What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare “Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” – J.K. Rowling

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By Thursday, have revised autobiography ready to share. 0 Monday: Name activities 0 Tuesday: Childhood memories 0 Wednesday: 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Thursday: Presentation of Autobiography 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Present an object from childhood. Use that object as basis for descriptive writing and revision. 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Sharing artifacts from childhood 0 Red Bicycles, Blue Seas 0 Ticket to Leave

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) Don’t worry about spelling or grammar (until the final draft) 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 If you start to feel self-conscious or stiff in your writing, write about it!

Free Write 0 Write about the object or picture you brought in minutes

Today’s Vocabulary: Analyze 0 to study or examine something carefully in order to gain a deeper understanding

Red Bicycles, Blue Seas 0 Choose a color 0 Write about a childhood memory associated with that color 0 15 minutes then pause

Why Description Matters 0 We will read together 0 As we read, highlight information that resonates, inspires, or calls you to question

Revise and Rewrite 0 Read your piece aloud to a partner 0 As you listen to the reading, think of one thing the author did well and one description you would like to hear more of 0 After both reading and receiving feedback, spend 7 minutes rewriting your piece

Ticket to Leave 0 Share your most descriptive sentence

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Wednesday, September 16, Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

Do Now 0 Find a partner. Ask them the first word that comes to mind when they think about this class. Discuss what you think that means. 0 Some words don’t exist in English Fernweh (German): Feeling homesick for a place you’ve never been.

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By tomorrow, have revised autobiography ready to share. 0 Monday: Name activities 0 Tuesday: Childhood memories 0 Wednesday: 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Thursday: Presentation of Autobiography 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Write a 7 minute autobiography. Revise to include descriptions. 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Random Autobiography Reading 0 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Ticket to Leave

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) Don’t worry about spelling or grammar (until the final draft) 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 If you start to feel self-conscious or stiff in your writing, write about it!

Free Write What is the best or worst thing that ever happened to you?

Today’s Vocabulary: Animosity 0 strong feeling of dislike or ill-will towards someone/something

Bonus Words 0 Scowl: an angry expression 0 Strode: walk with long steps in a specific directions

Random Autobiography 0 Read together 0 What does the author do to guide the reader through her life? 0 What do you like about her style of writing? 0 How does she use minimal yet powerful descriptions to engage her reader?

Writing Your Autobiography 0 Ideally, it should take no more than 7 minutes to READ it, but it will take longer to write it 0 Due tomorrow- independently revised and rewritten

Ticket to Leave 0 Share one descriptive word

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Thursday, September 17, Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4!)

Do Now 0 Get out your piece of writing. Read it over in your head. Take a few minutes and collect your thoughts.

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: Late work due tomorrow 0 Monday: Name activities 0 Tuesday: Childhood memories 0 Wednesday: 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Thursday: Presentation of Autobiography 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Present your autobiography. Give and receive critical praise and feedback. 0 Vocabulary 0 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Ticket to Leave

Today’s Vocabulary: Approximate 0 close to the actual, but not completely accurate or exact

Procedure 0 Read Giving Feedback on Writing 0 Decide what type of feedback you want 0 Decide what you will be listening for before each reading 0 Record your feedback on a separate sheet of paper. Hand that in with your autobiography.

Partners 0 Brandon and William 0 Linh and Somelys 0 Anderson and Kellyn 0 Joshua and Joel 0 Eddie and Gilberto 0 Poonaty and Cindy

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

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Friday, September 18, Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

Do Now 0 Vocabulary Quiz: Use each word in a sentence 0 Analyze 0 Ambivalent 0 Alternative 0 Animosity 0 Approximate

What’s up this week? 0 Homework: None 0 Monday: Name activities 0 Tuesday: Childhood memories 0 Wednesday: 7 Minute Autobiography 0 Thursday: Presentation of Autobiography 0 Friday: Poems and Vocab Quiz

What’s up today? 0 Write a poem based on reading the first line 0 Vocabulary Quiz 0 Bag of Swag!! 0 Writing poem 0 Reading Poem 0 Ticket to Leave

BAG OF SWAG!

Poetry on the T? 0 Interested? 0 See me after class.

Poem Writing 0 With a partner, you are going to write a poem based on the first line of a famous poem: “Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. ”

Reading 0 Eating Poetry by Mark Strand

Ticket to Leave

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