Creative+Writing+Semester+Two+2014

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

=Turnitin.com code number: 7610006= =password: skoricbhs= =__ **Jan 6** __= = 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 8** __

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 8__ **

Introductory writing activity 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 8 **__


 * Bring composition notebooks for journals next class, a signed syllabus and a binder with a plastic cover. **

=__** Jan 8 **__= DUE: Collage, blank journals a binder with a plastic cover, signed syllabus

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

Share Creativity Is...Collages Share stories and Collect

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)

Purdue Creativity Test... 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.

[|Creative Paper Clip Challenge]

=__**Jan 10**__= 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]

participate in creative centers aimed at reconnecting with their creative selves. 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.

From the archaeologist 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. **(Field Notes Due Jan 14)**





Absent students can use this picture to 'discover.'

=__**Jan 14**__= 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 Jan 16**

=__**Jan 16**__=
 * Archaeology papers and field notes DUE**

Journal: Write about one of the following descriptions from the Come to your Senses sheet below.

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

[|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: **Jan 27**



__**Remember that your journals are due on Tuesday**__

=__**Jan 21**__= 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? **
 * Journals Due Today**

Work in the IMC on papers - **Rough Draft Due Jan 23**

Learn how to participate in a writing conference

=__**Jan 23**__=
 * 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 27 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 Jan 29**

=__**Jan 27**__= IMC for fifteen minutes to finish and print final papers.

COLLECT Final Draft Inanimate Object Papers (Include rough draft and three conference sheets with final)

**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?

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 Feb 6) **

[|Zoom by Istvan Banyai at Youtube]



=__**Jan 29**__= 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.

=__**Jan 31**__= 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** =__Feb 4__= 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 and create a life from your chosen paint chip.

[|paint samples with names]

Zoom book work time Due Feb 6

=__**Feb 6**__= Journal: Make a list of stereotypes on the board. Choose one and write about it... If gone select from this list of stereotypes.

Zoom Books Due (Aurhor's Chair Share)

Potato People Character Builder

=__**Feb 10**__= 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.

Collect Zoom Books Author's Chair Share...

Soul Spud Find your soul spud based on your e-harmony profiles and write about the date that ensued... COLLECT

Air mail setting writing activity

Learn about the requirements for the character sketch
 * Notes Due Feb 14**

=__**Feb 12**__= 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]

Airplane SOS (Launch planes and create a return message thinking about flashback, irony, and setting in your creation.) Share and COLLECT

Rewrite your fairy tale or try to pick and choose the direction your five to ten page story final may take. =__**Feb 14**__= Journal: Valentine Mad Libs... Create Two Valentine Cards (Grade Check)

Stranger Notes (Grade Check)







Go to IMC and work on character sketches

=__**Feb 19**__= 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?

IMC - character sketch notes? character sketch rough draft due next time start on short story concept sheet...





=__**Feb 21**__= 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 Mar 3**

=__**Feb 25**__= 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

**ATTENTION: BHS Creative Writing Students...** ** Please click on the link below to schedule your student or you may go to www.berthoudhighschool.com as the information is on the website on the middle-left of the homepage. The P/T Conference website (see link below) password is (lowercase): Spartans **  https://www.canyoncreeksoftware.com/scheduler/co/thompson/index.cfm =__**Feb 27**__= Journal: Make a list of ten I REMEMBER STATEMENTS. Explain two of them. Begin Autobiography with the Memory Maps
 * If you want to schedule a writing conference during conferences... see below**

Autobiography Assignment

Memory Maps

=__**Mar 3**__= Journal: What are three ways you are childish and three ways you are child-like. Explain one of each
 * Journals DUE**


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


 * Final Drafts turned into Turnitin.com by Mar 10 at 11:59**
 * [|Turnitin.com]**

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Memory Map Continue and Finish Conferences on Drafts

=__**Mar 5 Quarter Three Begins**__=

=__**Mar 11**__= 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

(If you had trouble submitting your short stories do it in class today.) Get help if needed

=__**Mar 13**__=
 * TCAP testing **
 * Classes Periods One, Two, Three **
 * Continue Speeches in Periods One and Two **

=__** March 14 **__=
 * TCAP testing **
 * Classes Periods One, Two, Three **
 * Continue Speeches in Periods One and Two **

=__**Mar 17**__= Journal: Create a metaphor that could be used to define you. Include ten reasons why and a simple picture of the object to go along with the list

Continue working on Autobiographies =**__Mar 19__**= First half of class to finish Autobiographies DUE FRIDAY MARCH 21

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 follow the Author's Chair Share next class



[|Poetry Terms Dictionary]

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

=__**Mar 21**__= Select one of the two nouns and create a five line poem from the words and phrases Finally create a concrete 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)**

[|Concrete Poetry Examples on Pinterest]

Author's Chair Share with Short Stories (Share at least a page) Select one story and read it to its completion (Use a sticky note and provide the author with three stars and two wishes.)

Music as poetry presentations (Demonstrate your love of poetry through your love of music) **SEE ASSIGNMENT FROM LAST CLASS FOR REQUIREMENTS**

Autobiography Due at End of Class =__**Mar 25**__= 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.

Finish all Music as Poetry Presentations.

=__**Mar 27**__= 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]

Discuss Field Trip
(In order to be able to go students must have at least a C and no missing assignments in the grade book.) Field Trip Permission Slip for April 16

Learn Requirements of the Poetry Notebook




Poetry Notebooks Due April 21
=__**April 7**__= 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.



Remind students that the field trip permission slips and ten dollars are due on April 9. No students can go with missing assignments in the grade book. (See form on Mar 27 daily class entry)

= = =__**April 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.



[|Guide to Verse Forms: Stanzas]

Go to IMC and work on Poetry Notebooks

= = =__**April 11**__= Journal: Why did you choose your poems? What do you like about them?

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

[|White House Poetry Recitation]

Go to the IMC and work on Poetry Notebooks (Due April 24)

Permission Slips and ten dollars due for field trip

=__**April 15**__= 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 April 24

REMEMBER TO BRING MONEY FOR LUNCH AND CONSIDER BRINGING CLOTHES YOU CAN LAYER FOR THE FIELD TRIP TOMORROW. MEET IN THE COMMONS AT 7:35.

If you cannot attend the trip know that we will miss you. Go to the following links and take a virtual trip and complete the research you can use for your children's story.



If you are attending the trip check out the following information. You will get copies of this as you get on the bus.



=__**April 16**__= __**Creative Writing, Environmental Science Field Trip to the Zoo and Museum**__ __**See forms above.**__
 * Students going on the trip from Skoric's class:**

=__**April 17**__= Journal: What is something you saw/learned about that you could use in your children's story. Explain how you might use it.

See examples of stories turned in by students in previous years to use as a model. Consult the assignment sheet. Children's Story DUE May 1

Finalize the poetry notebook DUE April 21

=__**April 21**__= Journal: What did you learn about poetry through the creation of your notebook? What is your favorite poem in the collection? Why do you like it?

COLLECT Poetry Notebooks

Work on Children's Story in IMC

=__**April 23**__= Journal: A background in creative writing would be helpful in many careers. Where do you think you will be able to use things you have done in this class at some time in the future?

[|So You Want to Publish a Children's Story?] Learn about publishing for children [|Dangerous Myths and Terrible Truths about Writing for Children]

Work on Children's Stories in the IMC

=__**April 25**__= Journal: What is your favorite movie? Why? What do you feel is the best thing you have written this semester? Why do you like it? How could you use it as the inspiration for a film?

Learn about the Cannon Project Imagination Film Series [|Project Imagination Press Release]

The winning photographs that inspired the film. [|Photographs Used to Inspire the Film]

The first film created for Project Inspiration [|Winning Short Film: When You Find Me]

Watch several student submissions from past years to use as examples

=__**April 29**__= Journal: Movie details...Who(is in your group) What (idea do you plan to develop) How(do you plan to film and edit the film)

Learn requirements of the movie

Finalize children's story.. DUE May 1 Begin construction of the movie...

=__**STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION...DO NOT CONSULT AS A RESOURCE YET...**__= __**May 1**__

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__**May 23 Seniors' Last Day**__

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__**May 30 Last Day of School**__