Creative+Writing+S2+(Period+3)

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__** WEEK ONE **__ = __**Monday, Jan 4**__ = __**Professional Day = No School for Students**__

=__**Tuesday, Jan 5**__= = Learn workings of the class through the syllabus, and create a set of classroom norms for their class. =
 * Norm the ideas of Achieve, Respect and Engage for this class. **

On the back of their syllabus answer the questions: Why did you take this class and what will you need to learn in order to feel this was a useful use of your time?
 * DUE: Signed Syllabus Jan 6 **

Journal: Why does man create? On your own paper today. (COLLECT) Write at least a half a page in response.


 * Create a collage that answers the "What is Creativity?" DUE:Jan 6 **

On three scraps of paper write down three nouns...Then put them into the bowl. Choose two and create a new compound word... Then write a story...advertise the product...write an article about its discovery... ** Due Jan 6 **
 * Introductory writing activity **


 * Bring introductory writing 'story', composition notebooks for journals next class, a signed syllabus and a binder with a plastic cover to class next time. **

= __**Wed, Jan 6**__ =
 * Turn to a partner and share your definition of creativity through your collage. Discuss as a class and COLLECT **
 * COLLECT Introductory Writing 'Story' **
 * COLLECT SIGNED SYLLABUS **

Journal: Do you think you are more or less creative than you were at five? Why? What do you need, or what did need to make you creative? Time? Resources? Knowledge?, Freedom?... explain you answer

[|David Kelley Building Creative Confidence]


 * 1) Participate in creative centers aimed at reconnecting with their creative selves.
 * 2) Once they have experienced the 'child side' they will switch hats and move from their childhood persona and into their adult archaeologist [|"Indiana Jones"] persona.
 * 3) From the archaeologist perspective they will discover an artifact, describe it in field note form: Description of objects: color, size, shape, texture, (Location can change to wherever you like)
 * [[image:http://www.draplin.com/pics/work_fn.jpg width="127"]]
 * 1) Then create a document of at least 200 words which considers purpose, audience and method of communication the final product. ** (Field Notes Due with Archaeology Response on Friday, Jan 15) **





Absent students can use this picture to 'discover.'
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= __**Friday, Jan 8**__ =
 * DUE: Last Day for Signed Syllabus **

Journal: Write about a time that you felt very creative...What did you do?

In thirty seconds sketch a neighbor in this class. (After thirty seconds show them the sketch.) ...Many will apologize for their drawings...why? (fear of judgement that is learned)


 * Creative Circles (In five minutes...see how creative you are) **

Generate at least 25 great creative ideas to promote the utility and versatility of the paper clip. (After all, it is an under appreciated occupant of supply closets everywhere.) First five minutes everyone is silent...Then in teams of four share ideas and come up with the five best.... Create a list and add an explanation of why it is the best.
 * Purdue Creativity Test... **

[|Creative Paper Clip Challenge]

__** WEEK TWO **__ = __**Monday, Jan 11**__ = Journal: What does perception mean and how can it affect you as a writer. Discuss

Go to the IMC and check out these examples of perception [|National Institute of Environmental Science]

Learn the requirements of the Archaeology response.



Using their notes or pictures as a reference create a response that will address their chosen audience. Notes and Final Typed Response are ** Due Friday, January 15 **

= __**Tuesday, Jan 12**__ = Journal: Write about one of the following descriptions from the Come to your Senses sheet below.

Taste...chocolate chip cookie Smell...a rose Sound: [|Gong Sound] Texture...sandpaper Sight...a picture of the beach
 * Description Activities: (Also in your journal) **

=__**Thursday, Jan 14**__= Watch the following clip and think about personification: Discuss [|Beauty and the Beast Personification Come to Life]

Go on an Inanimate Scavenger Hunt--Take Notes on What You Find

When you get back try to think from the perspective of an inanimate object

In two to four pages, create a DAY IN THE LIFE story about your chosen inanimate object. DUE: ___



= __**Friday, Jan 15**__ = Journal: "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you,in other words, but then it goes out., Once you know what the story is and get it right - as write as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it or criticize it." Stephen King in __ On Writing __
 * Respond to the quote. Do you agree, disagree and how can the peer editing process affect you as a writer? **

Work in the IMC on papers - ** Rough Draft Due **

Learn how to participate in a writing conference

__** WEEK THREE **__ = __**Monday, Jan 18**__ = __**School Holiday = No School for Students**__

=__**Tuesday, Jan 19**__= __**Professional Work Day = No School for Students**__

= __**Wednesday, Jan 20**__ =
 * Journal: ** In __ **exactly 50 words** __ write the story of a cat chasing a ball of yarn...write it from the point of view of the yarn.


 * Writing Conferences (Students will edit three papers and have three editors look at their paper using the following forms. **






 * __Final Drafts Due Jan__ _ at beginning of class (Final draft, Rough Draft, Three Editing Sheets)__ **

Make a list of twenty word that do not have a picture that goes with them. EX: courage, freedom Then write about the connotation and denotation of that word. How are they different? Are they the same?

Create Sense Posters in Groups of four **DUE**



= __**Friday, Jan 22**__ = Edit Rough Drafts of Inanimate Object Papers with two other students using the sheets below



**Journal**: What is the connotation of your chosen word? Is it positive or negative? Why do you think so and how do you plan to make that come across in your poster?

Sense Poster Work Time


 * ZOOM Books Introduction - Create a Zoom Book that reflects an element of changing perception like Istvan Banyai's book __ZOOM__. **
 * (Due) **

[|Zoom by Istvan Banyai at Youtube]



__** WEEK FOUR **__ =__**Monday, Jan 25**__= Journal: Story Sticks... If absent,,use the line below as the first line in a story you will begin.
 * Dad gave me a wink, like we were pals or something. **

In your story include a sensory description of the following thing
 * a sidewalk with a crack **

Finish sense posters and begin work on Zoom Books.

= __**Tuesday, Jan 26**__ = Journal: Story Cards...If absent Start a story in your journal using these three items.
 * Character: ** farmer
 * Situation: ** group photo
 * Setting: ** time machine

Present sense posters COLLECT

Work on Zoom Books Due ** Feb 6 **

= __Wednesday, Jan 27__ = Journals due next Monday Journal: Choose from the list of character traits and begin a story where the main character possesses three of the traits from the list [|Character Trait List] [|Another List of Possibilities]

Paint Chip People

If absent for the paint chip activity choose a color name from the link below and create a life from your chosen paint chip. [|paint samples with names]

Zoom Book Work Time Due Feb 6

= __**Friday, Jan 29**__ = Journal: Make a list of stereotypes on the board. Choose one and write about it... If gone select from this list of stereotypes.

Zoom Book Work Time

Bring a Potato on Monday for **Potato People Character Builder**

__** WEEK FIVE **__ = __**Monday, Feb 1**__ = Journal: Choose a setting and describe it as fully as you can. It can be a place you have been or one you would like to see in your lifetime.

Build Your Potato Person and Search for Your Soul Spud on E-Harmony

Homework: In a page write about the 'date' that came from the matchup.

= __**Tuesday, Feb 2**__ = Present the Spud Couples and Share the Soul Spud Matches

Journal: Think about your favorite fairy tale. Begin a rewrite either changing the character to include one of the ones created so far in class...paint chip, potato, story sticks, air plane sos, stalk a stranger... or changing the setting or plot.

Use The True Story of the Three Little Pigs as an Example of a Fairy Tale Re-Write. [|The True Story of the Three Little Pigs]

Rewrite your fairy tale or try to pick and choose the direction your five to ten page story final may take.

=__** Wednesday, Feb 3 **__= Journal: Do you love to people watch? What is the strangest thing you have seen as an observer?

Learn about the Stalk a Stranger Character Sketch: Notes Due Friday







=__Friday, Feb 5__= Journal: What is a subplot and how might it be used in the story you are creating? How about a plot of tension and release? What does that mean and how might you use it to add interest to your character sketch or your ultimate 5-10 page short story?

Go to IMC to write your Character Sketch character sketch notes? character sketch rough draft due next time start on short story concept sheet...





__** WEEK SIX **__ = __**Monday, Feb 8**__ = Journal: Trade character sketches with someone. Read the sketch and then create a caricature (exaggerated cartoon image) of that character. What did you include and leave out? What stood out about the character? How would they talk? accent? tone? How would they walk? Show your partner the sketch and discuss your impressions of the character

Collect Notes and Character Sketches

Go to IMC and work on your stories.


 * Three Page Rough Drafts Due: **

= __**Tuesday, Feb 9**__ = Use the period to work on short stories

Journal: Make a list of ten **I REMEMBER STATEMENTS.** Explain two of them. Begin Autobiography with the Memory Maps



= __**Wednesday, Feb 10**__ = Journal:

Learn requirements of Autobiography Assignment

=__**Friday, Feb 12**__= Journal: What are three ways you are childish and three ways you are child-like. Explain one of each


 * Rough Drafts of Short Story Due (at least three pages for 30 points) **


 * Final Drafts turned into Turnitin.com by **
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Memory Map Continue and Finish Conferences on Drafts

__** WEEK SEVEN **__ =__**Monday, Feb 15**__= =__**School Holiday**__= __**NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS**__= = __**Tuesday, Feb 16**__ = Get Journals from the crate... Journal: Create ten **I am** statements...  For example; I am a daughter I am a sister I am a wife I am a mother

Then create a poem using this as a framework (Consult the two famous examples if it helps)

Continue working on your Autobiographies We will go to IMC tomorrow to work on short stories (Due Monday)

= __**Wednesday, Feb 17**__ = Journal: Create a metaphor that could be used to define you. Go to IMC to Work on Short Stories

= __**Friday, Feb 18**__ = Journal: First half of class in IMC to finish stories Then dowstairs to work on Autobiographies

__** WEEK EIGHT **__ =__**Monday, Feb 22**__= __**FINAL DRAFT OF SHORT STORIES DUE (Include a copy of the rough draft)**__ __**AUTOBIOGRAPHIES DUE Monday, March 11 (Questions about any of the Autobiography choices?)**__ Journal: What is poetry? Consider this poem by Billy Collins. Do you agree with his opinion of what education has done to poetry? [|Billy Collins - An Introduction to Poetry]

Do you like music? If you do then you actually like poetry without realizing it. Students will choose a song and analyze it as if it was a poem. (Include at least two terms in the two-three minute presentation) Presentations will begin next Monday.

[|Poetry Terms Dictionary]

__ **[|Poetry Terms Resource]** __

= __**Wednesday, Feb 24**__ = Select one of the two nouns and create a five line poem from the words and phrases
 * Journal: Concrete Poetry **
 * Make a list of ten nouns **
 * Choose two and put a star by them **
 * Skip a line and write one of the two chosen words **
 * Beneath the word create five sensory words or phrases to describe the chosen noun (Do this for each word) **
 * EX. What does paper look like, smell like, taste like, feel like, sound like? **
 * Next, write a one sentence memory associated with the noun (Do this for each word) **

Finally create a concrete poem from the words and phrases COLLECT
[|Concrete Poetry Examples on Pinterest]

Work Time for Autobiographies

__**Remember Your Music as Poetry Presentations on Monday.**__
= __**Thursday, Feb 25**__ = __**No School for Students = Professional Development Day**__

__**Friday, Feb 26**__
__**No School for Students = Teacher Work Day**__

__** WEEK NINE **__ __**Monday, Feb 30**__ Journal: What is Ekphrastic Poetry?

Use these examples as an additional reference [|Ekphrastic Poetry Examples]

Consider the painting below. Create an image filled poem in response to the painting. Then consult the published excerpt of the poem created by Wallace Stephens in response to the painting.






 * Begin your music as poetry presentations. **

=__Tuesday, March 1__= __No Journal:__
 * Finish Music as Poetry Presentations **

Work on Autobiographies with any time left over.

__** Thursday, March 3 **__
__** No Class for Students = Parent Teacher Conferences **__

__Friday, March 4__
__No Class for Students Teacher Exchange Day__

__** Second Quarter Begins **__ __** WEEK TEN **__ =__** Monday, March 7 **__= __** Remember that Autobiographies are DUE TOMORROW **__

Journal: Epitaph: Your Final 'Soundbite' Discuss the quote...

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now. - Buddha
Then in your journal...

__Create two epitaphs__:
1. One for an inanimate object (like the death of summer) 2. And One For Yourself... (This can be funny, satirical or serious.) 3. Use Consonance, Assonance or Alliteration in the creation of your epitaphs!!

Consult the following source for epitaphs of names you may recognize. [|Famous Epitaphs] Here is another list of famous literary and historical epitaphs. [|Literary and Historical Epitaphs]

Now turn to another page in your journal:

__Create Color Poems__
1. Choose two of your favorite colors 2. Make a list of twenty things that are that color for each color 3. Now create a phrase for each of the senses involving the color ex. "When the leaves are turning, orange is the smell of a bonfire burning." 4. Then choose one color and create a poem of at least ten lines. ex. __ **Hailstones and Halibut Bones** __ by Mary O'Neill [|Read Hailstones and Halibut Bones on Amazon]

Learn Requirements of the Poetry Notebook




Poetry Notebooks Due Wednesday, March 23
= __**Tuesday, March 8**__ = Journal: (Journals Due Today) What is a creed? How about a credo? What are things you believe to be true?

Watch the following clip from the movie Bull Durham. Then using the sheet provided create your own Credo Poem. Be sure to give it a title! :) This could be used as your version of success in the poetry notebook or as a formula poem choice.

[|Bull Durham I believe...]

Continue with the formula idea and create four formula poems using the examples below. (Two of them will appear in your poetry notebook.) Here are several examples of formula poetry.



= __**Wednesday, March 9**__ = Journal: What is the theme of your poetry notebook going to be? Why did you choose that theme? What option are you going to use to create the collection?

Collect eight formula poems (Checked for a grade by the end of class today)

Using your chosen theme create a poem containing at least two stanzas. Use the resource below as a starting point.

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[|Guide to Verse Forms: Stanzas]

Share your poems with someone else... [|Famous Poetry Recitations]

[|White House Poetry Recitation]

= __**Friday, March 11**__ = Journal: Take a textbook out of your backpack. Now turn to chapter five. Make a list of twenty words within the chapter.

Now create a poem in which you explain how you feel about that class using those words. SHARE! :) You found words and created a poem...Therefore you created a found poem. :)

Now choose another source connected to your theme and create two more found poems in your journal. Consult this resource for a further explanation and examples of found poems. [|Found Poem Explanation and Examples]

When finished continue working on your poetry notebook due March 23

__** WEEK ELEVEN **__ = __**Monday, March 14**__ = __**Journal:**__ IMC to work on Poetry Notebooks

= __**Tuesday, March 15**__ = __**Journal:**__ IMC to work on Poetry Notebooks

=__Wednesday, March 16__= IMC to work on Poetry Notebooks

=__Friday, March 18__= IMC to work on Poetry Notebooks

__** Due March 30 **__
__** WEEK TWELVE **__

__**Monday, March 21**__

 * Journal: How many of you have a Twitter Account? What do you think drives the success of Twitter? Explain your answer.**

Check out [|140 Character Novels]

 * Then try your hand at creating three of your own. You have only 139 characters because the last two are required for your initials.
 * When you have three done, share them with someone else or several someones!
 * Finally choose one and craft it in final form.
 * By __**Wednesday**__ you will use the link below to submit your final tweeted tale. The will then be uploaded onto the Berthoud High School Tweet Site for all to see. You will be professional writers. CONGRATULATIONS! :)
 * [|Twitter Fiction Submission Form]

__** Tuesday, March 22 **__
Journal: How many of you listen to NPR (National Public Radio)? What do you listen to and why do you like it?

Well...for those of you who don't NPR created a segment several years ago entitled Three-Minute Fiction. You will be writing three stories that follow the prompt from Round Three. You will then choose one of the three ad craft it into its final form.



__**Wednesday, March 23**__
Journal: Which story do you like best? What do you like about it? If you had time how do you think you could make it even better?

Go to IMC and type up your final story.
 * Turn in all three stories by Friday, March 25
 * Put the 'BEST' story on top and staple all three together.

__** Friday, March 25 **__
= Students will create an invitation and plan a dinner party following ideas on the sheet below. DUE: Tues 4/12

__** WEEK THIRTEEN **__

__**Monday, April 11**__
Journal: Words are important. Words are lasting. Write 50 words that could be included into a time capsule and sent into space to outlast earth and exist four billion years from now.

Students will learn about Murmurs of Earth by Carl Sagen and The Last Pictures by Trevor Paglen. Both are scientists who sending visual images with satellites to last far beyond earth as we know it. Then consider what are the characteristics of a lasting image..... [|Voyager Golden Record Explanation] [|Trevor Paglen: The Last Pictures Project]

Watch a cllip of the trailer for **[|The Last Pictures from Creative Time.]** Discuss the value of words and images.

Look at the pictures chosen for Ron Howard's Project Imagination
 * [|Ron Howard's Project Imagin8tion] **


 * If you have some time you might check out the short film below that was inspired by the bottom picture. **
 * [|When You Find Me (Short Film)]**


 * Now go to IMC and finish your invitation and dinner party plan if not done. They are due tomorrow.**

Homework: Select six images to guide the creative projects for the remainder of class Save them to googledrive so you can find them and share them with me in order to earn credit.

__**Tuesday, April 12**__
__**DUE: INVITATION AND DINNER PARTY (Share and Collect)**__ Journal: From now on, we will be using video prompts to begin each journal in preparation for the creative projects using your chosen images.


 * [|Video Prompt: The Greatest Speech Ever]**

Please watch the above video, and write about the impact it had on you. Think about what made it so impacting, thinking specifically about the series of photos and how the related to the speech. You too will use photos in your writing assignments and the final video.


 * 1) Each of your 6 photos will be turned into a different creative writing assignment
 * 2) You can re-pick your photos if you would like to (we will be working with them a lot! Make sure you care about them!)
 * 3) The 6 different assignments will be:
 * 4) Three Minute Fiction Story
 * 5) Three poems (format of your choice)
 * 6) An ad, created around the concept of one of your photos
 * 7) An Aesop's Fable
 * 8) InkleWriter adventure story
 * 9) A Video (This can be done in groups of four students


 * Creative Portfolio Due Friday, May 6**
 * Videos Shown in Class on Wednesday May 11**

=__**Wednesday, April 13**__=
 * Watch Ron Howard's Film Created Using the Eight Pictures as Their Inspiration**
 * [|When You Find Me (Short Film)]**

Today's video writing prompt:
 * [|The Dolls]**

Please watch the above video, and write from the perspective of one of the dolls. Things to keep in mind: how long has that doll been there? What was that person like before they became a doll? What do they think about all day? Who do you think is controlling this place? What is its purpose?

Now take a look at your six pictures and select one that will be used as the inspiration for your portfolio pieces. Choose one that you will use for your Three-Minute Fiction Piece. Remember the requirements for a three-minute fiction story. For those of you that need 'deadlines' the three-minute fiction will be due next Friday.



__**Friday, April 15**__
Today's video prompt:
 * [|Audio VS Video]**

Watch the above video with first just the audio, and then watch with the combined audio and video. Which did you like better?

Please begin to write the story of this poem, turning something that is usually perceived as one thing (ex: being alone means something is wrong with you, being alone is bad) and turn it around (being alone is freeing and healing).

The rest of the class period students will be working on your 3 Minute Fiction Story

__** WEEK FOURTEEN **__

__** Monday, April 18 **__

 * Professional Day = No School for Students **

**__ Tuesday, April 19 __**
Altered Schedule Due to Testing

Journal: Watch the following short film entitled **[|"The Piano.']** In the clip the man is telling the story of his life through music. Choose one of your pictures and create 'create the story of the photo' through the creation of a poem. The format is your choice.

Go to IMC and finish your 3 minute fiction. If you need a deadline, attach the photo to a document and share both of them with me by Friday.

**__ Friday, April 22 __**
What is your favorite commercial? Watch the following clip that uses images from various as an combines them to create a story.
 * [|Creating a Story from Advertising Images]**

Think about one of your pictures. How could it be used to create a print ad that 'tells the story of the product' for the consumer?

Use the digital photography assignment below as a guideline for creating your print ad. (You do not have to use Photoshop, Indesign or Illustrator if you do not want to. You can do a simple cut, paste and write... if you need to.)
 * [|Create a Print Ad Using Your Photograph]**


 * Three Poems Due Wednesday April 27 for those that need deadlines **
 * Print Advertisement is Due Friday, April 29 for those that need deadlines **

__** WEEK FIFTEEN **__

**__ Monday, April 25 __**
Journal: What is a Fable? How about a folktale? Or a legend? Explain your answer with examples you might already know.

Look at the following examples to see how you might turn your created tale into a video production.
 * [|The Tortoise and the Hare]**
 * [|The Boy Who Cried Wolf]**
 * [|Aesop's Fables Examples]**


 * Now get started on your own Fable, Folktale or Legend.**
 * You could also write a 'Fractured Fairy Tale" (See Below)**
 * [|The Absolutely True Story of the Three Little Pigs]**

**__ Tuesday, April 26 __**
Students work on the Fable, Legend, or Folktale

**__ Wednesday, April 27 __**
Work together with groups to plan your movie Go to IMC to work on Portolio Projects

**__ Friday, April 29 __**
Students will learn about the **[|Inklewriter]** Create Your Adventure Assignment 1. Plan your general story on paper. Begin the tale with Once Upon a Time... 2. Use this link to **[|Get Started.]** 3. When you are finished with your story use the directions to save and share it with me. (kimberly.skoric@thompsonschools.org) 4. Have FUN. This is what Creative Writing is supposed to be. FUN! :)

__** WEEK SIXTEEN **__

**__ Monday, May 2 __**
Go to IMC and finish your Inklewriter stories. Remember that all of the portfolio projects, except the film are due on **Friday, May 6**

**__ Tuesday,May 3 __**
Watch the following clip about the creation of short film.
 * [|How to Make a Short Film] **

Then spend the class period creating a story board, organizing filming details and drafting a script.

__**Wednesday, May 4**__
The IMC is available if you need it.
 * Have you finished...**
 * Three Minute Fiction?**
 * Three Poems?**
 * Creative Ad?**
 * Fable, Folktale or Legend?**
 * Inklewriter Choose Your Adventure Story?**

__**Friday, May 6**__
Author's Chair = Share Your Favorite Piece (Be sure to have the corresponding picture available so the audience can see it.)

__** WEEK SEVENTEEN **__

__**Monday, May 9**__
Work on Movie

__**Tuesday, May 10**__
Work on Movie

__**Wednesday, May 11**__
Show Movies Complete any last Author's Chair Shares