1. Week 1: Creative Writing Ms. Moran

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

3. Do Now 0 Please complete the questions on the questionnaire.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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 Homework (usually one long assignment per week) 20% 0 Class participation (attendance and classwork)15% 0 Projects (quizzes and presentations) 45%, 0 Tests (exams and longer writing assignments) 20% 0 Shout Outs 0 Early with desks set up 0 Homework handed in on time 0 Going above and beyond expectations 0 80% grade 0 Demonstrating leadership

7. 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!

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

9. 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?

10. Please move the desks back to rows

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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 Homework (usually one long assignment per week) 20% 0 Class participation (attendance and classwork)15% 0 Projects (quizzes and presentations) 45%, 0 Tests (exams and longer writing assignments) 20% 0 Shout Outs 0 Early with desks set up 0 Homework handed in on time 0 Going above and beyond expectations 0 80% grade 0 Demonstrating leadership

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

17. 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!

18. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. 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?

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

29. Game! 0 2 truths and a lie

30. Please move the desks back to rows

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

32. 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.

33. 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

34. 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

35. Questions on myths?

36. 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!

37. Free Write Write a creative response to this picture.

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

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

40. Slam Poem #2 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ZRyZcW_ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ZRyZcW_ac 0 What Teachers Make- by Taylor Mali 0 What is Mali’s message? 0 What meaning does this poem have for you?

41. Slam Poem #3 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPJz8CWE-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPJz8CWE-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?

42. 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.

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

44. Please move the desks back to rows

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

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

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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”

50. Reading 0 Deer Hit by Jon Loomis

51. Ticket to Leave

52. Please move the desks back to rows