1. Week 5: Creative Writing Ms. Moran

2. Monday, October 5, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

3. Do Now 0 What journey do you most want to make? 0 Think, pair, share.

4. What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By Thursday revise a free write. 0 Monday: Read: Bullet in the Brain 0 Tuesday: Read: Road between here and there 0 Wednesday: Read: The Things I’ve Lost 0 Thursday: Sharing and editing revised free writes 0 Friday: Poems

5. What’s up today? 0 Read Bullet in the Brain and create a story plot 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Reading 0 Story Plot 0 Ticket to Leave

6. Free Write 0 Are good manners important?

7. Woopsies Vocabulary: Antiquated (noun) 0 old-fashioned, outdated

8. Today’s Vocabulary: cynic (noun) 0 a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable reasons

9. Reading 0 As we read 0 HIGHLIGHT: information you think is interesting or language you think is exciting 0 CIRCLE: words you do not know 0 WRITE: four comments or questions in the margins

10. Questions with a Partner 0 What does this opening scene establish about Anders' personality, his attitude toward others? What bothers him most? How does he express himself? DETAILS, please. 0 What kind of person do you think Anders was, when you hear about the memories he didn’t think of? 0 Why do you think Anders remembered the little moments and not the big moments? Is this a life lesson? 0 What is unique about the story being written from the perspective of a grumpy old man?

11. Story Plot

12. Story Plot: Bullet in the Brain Anders is in the bank waiting in line The bank grows quiet because the robbers enter the bank Anders gets shot in the brain We learn about Anders’ life and the things he does not remember Anders remembers the little moments in his life, like playing baseball, before he dies

13. Ticket to Leave 0 Swap your Story Plot with a friend. 0 Do you agree on the parts of the Story Plot? 0 If yes, YAY! 0 If not, where do you disagree?

14. Please move the desks back to rows

15. Tuesday, October 6, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

16. Do Now 0 Copy the parts of a story plot.

17. Do Now: Story Plot Story Plot: Bullet in the Brain Anders is in the bank waiting in line The bank grows quiet because the robbers enter the bank Anders gets shot in the brain We learn about Anders’ life and the things he does not remember Anders remembers the little moments in his life, like playing baseball, before he dies

18. What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By Thursday revise a free write. 0 Monday: Read: Bullet in the Brain 0 Tuesday: Read: Road between here and there 0 Wednesday: Read: The Things I’ve Lost 0 Thursday: Sharing and editing revised free writes 0 Friday: Poems

19. What’s up today? 0 Read Road Between Here and There and write a “Here I…” story 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Read: Road Between Here and There 0 Write “Here I” story 0 Ticket to Leave

20. Free Write 0 What’s your talent?

21. Today’s Vocabulary: dearth (noun) 0 a scarcity or lack of something

22. Reading 0 As we read 0 HIGHLIGHT: information you think is interesting or language you think is exciting 0 CIRCLE: words you do not know 0 WRITE: four comments or questions in the margins

23. Here I… 0 Write your own “Here I…” story following the structure of this story 0 Here I grew up among the rolling green hills and brightest blue skies 0 Here I learned to ride a bike, scraped knees and scars from jagged little rocks telling the story of dirt roads 0 Here I learned what I thought love was and realized what, in fact, love was not

24. Ticket to Leave 0 Find a friend and swap stories. Silently read their story. 0 When done, say “thank you” and shake hands.

25. Please move the desks back to rows

26. Wednesday, October 7, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

27. Do Now 0 If you could write one tweet that the whole world would read, what would it be?

28. What’s up this week? 0 Homework: By Thursday revise a free write. 0 Monday: Read: Bullet in the Brain 0 Tuesday: Read: Road between here and there 0 Wednesday: Read: The Things I’ve Lost 0 Thursday: Sharing and editing revised free writes 0 Friday: Poems

29. What’s up today? 0 Write a story about the past 10 years of your life using only 3 word sentences 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 3 word sentence examples 0 Writing 3 word sentence story 0 Ticket to Leave

30. Free Write 0 What new emoticons does the world need?

31. Today’s Vocabulary: deficient (noun) 0 not having enough of a specified quality or quantity

32. Reading 0 As we read 0 HIGHLIGHT: information you think is interesting or language you think is exciting 0 CIRCLE: words you do not know 0 WRITE: four comments or questions in the margins

33. Discuss 0 How does the story of the things the author lost, tell the story of the things she has found through her life?

34. What have you lost? 0 Write on a scrap paper something you have lost. 0 Throw it in the middle.

35. Ticket to Leave 0 Write out what you might find when you lose that thing. 0 Stand in a circle. 0 Read our answers!

36. Please move the desks back to rows

37. Thursday, October 8, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks can stay like this

38. Do Now 0 Correct the following sentences by adding commas. 0 Her daughter April may return in June 2009 for the reunion. 0 I went to see the movie “Midnight in Paris” with my friend Jessie. 0 Baseball’s home run leader Barry Bonds will be eligible for the Hall of Fame next year.

39. What’s up this week? 0 Homework: None 0 Monday: Read: Bullet in the Brain 0 Tuesday: Read: Road between here and there 0 Wednesday: Read: The Things I’ve Lost 0 Thursday: Sharing and editing revised free writes 0 Friday: Poems

40. What’s up today? 0 Revise a free write through peer editing and online editing 0 Free Write 0 Vocabulary 0 Revisions 0 Google Docs 0 Ticket to Leave

41. Free Write 0 If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Pretend Ms. Moran can’t taste and describe the taste.

42. Today’s Vocabulary: demonstrate (verb) 0 to clearly show the existence or truth of (something) by giving proof or evidence

43. Feedback Rules 0 Meet your partner. 0 Tell them what type of feedback you want. 0 Read their paper silently. 0 Write three comments on the post-its that relate to the feedback 0 Discuss with your partner

44. BPS emails? 0 To log into the windows machine, the student must use their Student ID for the user ID and their 8 digit birthday for the password. For example: John Doe with student ID # 100100, born on June 27th 1999 would log on using User ID: 100100 Password: 06271999. 0 This will then prompt them to change their password. Please make them change it to something they will remember. If need be, keep it on file somewhere for them. 0 This changed password is now their password for their Gmail and Aspen.

45. Typing 0 Google Drive 0 Create a document- share with kmoran3@bostonpublicschools.org kmoran3@bostonpublicschools.org 0 Need heading and title 0 Size 12, some kind of normal font 0 HEADING: 0 Your Name 0 Ms. Moran 0 Creative Writing 0 October 2015

46. Ticket to Leave 0 What was valuable about writing online to edit?

47. Please move the desks back to rows

48. Friday, October 9, 2015 0 Welcome to class! 0 Today our desks should look like this (groups of 4 )

49. Do Now 0 Vocabulary Quiz: Use each word in a sentence 0 Beneficial 0 Analyze 0 Cynic 0 Arbitrary 0 Antiquated

50. What’s up this week? 0 Homework: None 0 Monday: Read: Bullet in the Brain 0 Tuesday: Read: Road between here and there 0 Wednesday: Read: The Things I’ve Lost 0 Thursday: Sharing and editing revised free writes 0 Friday: Poems

51. What’s up today? 0 Write a poem based on a famous first line 0 Poem writing 0 Poem Reading 0 Ticket to Leave

52. Free Write 0 What does it mean to be a winner? What does it mean to be a loser?

53. Poem Writing 0 With a partner, you are going to write a poem based on the first line of a famous poem: “Did you hear about the rose that grew”

54. Reading 0 The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur

55. Listen 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayTF-j0D2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayTF-j0D2s 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFsQRm3Udo4& index=12&list=PL17DE9528BB3B877B

56. Ticket to Leave

57. Please move the desks back to rows