Fall+2013+Creative+Writing

=__ **Daily Assignments, DUE dates and Other Important Information** __=

__ **Aug 26** __ Students will 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 Aug 28 **__

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

Introductory writing activities 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...
 * Share and Collect **


 * Create a collage that answers the "What is Creativity?" __DUE: Aug 28__ **


 * Bring composition notebooks for journals next class, a signed syllabus and a <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: bold !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;">[[image:http://solidsaving-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png height="19"]] with a plastic cover. **

__ **Aug 28** __

DUE: Collage, blank journals,<span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;">, 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

Students will participate in creative centers aimed at reconnecting with their creative selves. Once they have experienced the 'child side' they will switch hats and become an "Indiana Jones."

From that perspective they will discover an artifact, describe it in field note form, and then create a document of at least 200 words which considers purpose, audience and method of communication the final product. ** __DUE: Sept 4__ **

Students that were absent can use this picture to discover...



__**August 30**__ Journal: What does perception mean and how can it affect you as a writer: Provide several specific examples... In class answer questions and discuss



Reminder...A page long archaeology response based on the rubric and examples provided is DUE SEPT 4

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.
 * __Sept 4__ **

Students will peer edit the responses and then grade their own based on that feedback. ** COLLECT ARCHAEOLOGY RESPONSE **

Students will connect their observational skills to their idea of perception as they participate in a scavenger hunt of under-appreciated objects around the building.

Students will then apply that knowledge to a "Day in the Life" descriptive essay. __ **DUE: Sept 10** __

Go to the IMC to work on their Day in The Life Stories.

__ **Sept 6** __ Journal: 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 five. __ **Due Sept 10** __

__ **Sept 10** __ Journal: 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?

Peer Edit "Day in the Life Stories" ** COLLECT **

Create Sense Posters in groups of five. __ **Due Sept 15** __

__ **Sept 18** __ Journal: Write about ten things you will not do this weekend? Use description in your response.

--Finish sense posters

__ **Sept 20** __ Journal: Story Sticks...(If absent use these as story starters.) Start with the first sentence. Move toward the last sentence and include a sensory description of the detailed item.

First sentence - There were seventeen cats living in Larry's basement. Last sentence - That was the last time he invited his mother to dinner. Sensory Detail - the smell of Sally's leftovers.

Present sense posters ** COLLECT **


 * ZOOM Books Introduction - Create a Zoom Book that reflects an element of changing perception like Istvan Banyai's book __ZOOM__. **
 * Due Sept 30 **

[|Zoom example]

Zoom Book Planning Time...
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__ **Sept 24** __
 * Journal: paint chip character builder **


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Writing Story Builder: Form a paint chip network. In randomly assigned groups of four decide how the people can be connected...as a family...a work unit...neighbors..etc. Then work together for fifteen minutes and create a story using the personalities formed during the last class as a basis for the characters.

Zoom Work Day

__ **Sept 26** __ REMINDER ZOOM BOOKS DUE SEPT 30

Journal: Write about a 'dream trip' to a place you have always wanted to visit. Describe what you know about it and why you would like to visit there. Why did you choose that place? What would you like to do there?

Zoom Book Work Time (Due next class)

Consider the importance of setting using the message via airmail sheets


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Turn your message via airmail into a paper airplane

Take them to the top of the commons stairs and launch them

Retrieve one that is not yours and complete the tale

__ **Share and Collect** __

If there is extra time in class choose one of the following setting - mood examples and have an in class setting-mood write around and share


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 * IF ABSENT CHOOSE TWO FROM EACH OF THE SETTING AND MOOD SHEETS. WRITE ABOUT THEM AND THEN BRING IT TO CLASS **** WHEN YOU RETURN. **

__ **Sept 30** __ Journal: Make a list of fifty character traits. Then create a short dialogue where two of the characters meet for the first time. Take into account their character traits in the conversation.

[|fiction writers list of character traits]

Zoom books due


 * Story-time share and feedback from the Author's Chair (Stars and Wishes) **
 * Collect Zoom Books **

Learn the requirements of the Stalk a Stranger. (Notes due Wednesday)

[|Character sketch examples] In-class activity: Choose three people: A best friend... A family member...  Someone in this class...

Using the examples from the website create one sentence descriptions of each...

Ticket out... Write one of the three down and hand in on the way out of class

__** Oct 2 **__ Journal: Choose a stereotype from the list or choose one of your own. Create a dialogue where two new characters meet for the first time. Take into account their respective stereotypes In your characters include two from the following list
 * Good Guys: **
 * Bad Guys: **
 * Neutral Characters: **
 * Ambiguous Characters: **

Students will use the computers in the IMC to create a one to two page character sketch of their 'Stalk a Stranger' character.


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__**October 4**__
 * Journal:**


 * IMC**
 * Complete and Peer Edit Character Sketches**
 * (Rough Draft, Peer Edit Sheet and Final Draft Due Oct 8)**


 * Creative Circles.. Just how creative are you REALLY? :)**



__**Oct 8**__

__**Collect Character Sketches...**__ __**Rough Draft, Peer Edit Sheet and Final Drafts**__
 * Journal:**


 * [|Reviewing Plot Structure using Aladdin]**
 * Make a list of...**
 * Five characters**
 * Two Settings**


 * Then choose three characters and one setting and begin a story... Write the exposition in your journal...**


 * Introduce Inklewriter.**
 * Pre-write on butcher paper with groups**
 * Be prepared to complete the assignment in the IMC by Thursday (Oct 10) at the end of class.**


 * [|Inklewriter]**



__**Oct 10**__ IMC to <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> /Complete Inklewriter tales

__**Oct 14**__

Journal: Start a story in the form of a voicemail message... Share and read some 55 word stories from [|The Worlds Shortest Stories]

Share Adventure Stories in the IMC

Create three minute fiction using one of the prompts 1-9 on NPR Three Minute Fiction

[|NPR Three Minute Fiction]

If it helps use the 55 word fiction form.

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__**Oct 28**__

__**Oct 30**__
 * Journal:**
 * Short Stories Due**

__**Nov 1**__ IMC Autobiography Work Day

__**Nov 5**__ Journal: What is poetry? [|What is Poetry]

Read Billy Collins //Introduction to Poetry//

Choose a song and analyze its poetic elements. Present your findings to the class. Due November 7

Elements of poetry 'dictionary'

__**Nov 7**__
 * Journal: Do you like poetry? Do you like music? Would you consider all music as poetry?**


 * Music as Poetry Presentations**

__**Nov 11**__
 * Autobiography Due**
 * Journal: Make a list of five objects and ten phrases to describe each one.**
 * Write About One...**
 * Share One of Your Autobiography Choices**


 * Introduce Poetry Notebook Choices - Notebooks DUE DEC 6**

__**Nov 13**__ Journal: What are your favorite colors? Why? What are ten things that are that color?

Create Concrete poems using the list from yesterday.[|Definition and Examples of Found Poetry] [|concrete poem examples]

Create Color Poems using the journal from today and examples from __**Hailstones and Halibut**__ __**Bones**__, by Mary O'Neill

__**Nov 19**__ Journal: What is an epitaph? Create one for an inanimate object, one that fits your theme and one for yourself

Examples of Famous Epitaphs

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__**November 21**__ Journal: Consider Consonance, Assonance and Alliteration...Create a sentence for each one in your journal


 * Consonance: Cracked pepper combined with Krispy Cream crumbs create incredible snack cookies.**
 * Assonance: Shine brightly, smile through the bad times, and try to climb out of your depression.**
 * Alliteration: Simon sent several sand dollars simultaneously to his sisters Sandy and Susie in Sacramento and Sweden.**

Create a poem that features consonance, assonance or alliteration and follows your theme.

Create a found poem that follows your theme and uses the magazines in the room. [|Definition and Examples of Found Poetry]

__**December 2**__ Journal: Start a story that could be used in a movie... Think about characters, plot, theme or message Be sure to consider technology and time in your idea

Learn the requirements of the film project...Due Friday Before Finals





Watch Ron Howard's Project Imagination Film

__**December 4**__ COLLECT PERMISSION SLIPS AND TEN DOLLARS FOR THE FIELD TRIP ON DEC 11

Field Trip Assignment

Alternate Field Trip Assignment

Journal: Make a list of the characters in your movie. Then write a paragraph on one before you begin your script to give you a place for the dialogue to exist and create believable characters. Think about...physical, mental, network, motivation, habits and patterns of the characters in your paragraph

GO TO THE IMC TO WORK ON POETRY NOTEBOOKS - __**DUE FRIDAY**__ Remember to bring snacks and a poem you are willing to share at the poetry slam on Friday.

__**December 6**__ Journal: Create a timeline for your film. What will happen, when and to whom?

Poetry Slam [|National Poetry Slam 2013]\

Class Poetry Slam Share and Collect Notebooks

Collaborate with your group on your character paragraphs, timeline and film scripts

__**December 10**__ Character profiles, scripts, movie work

__**December 11**__ Field trip to the Denver Museum and the Butterfly Pavilion

For students attending the trip

For students unable to attend

__**December 12 **__

Students will create stories for children in class using the resources provided. They have one class period to work on the stories.

When finished working students are able to work on their film project. If they want to complete the story at home and continue working on the film they can do that.
 * Both Story Finals and Films are DUE during finals period Friday, Dec 20**

__**December 16**__ Continue working on stories or films
 * All written work for the film due at end of class.**

__**December 20**__ Present films in the auditorium and share stories in class afterwards.