3rd qtr 2014 calendar
WED., 15 JAN: WELCOME
Pay attention, read, and then write like a writer. JRNL ENTRY #1: See prompt in <handouts> tab. DISCUSSION: Introduction of what good writing consists of and assessment of what students already know about good writing. ACTIVITY: Found poetry from random writing. Students will discover poetry everywhere if they begin to "pay attention" like writers. HOMEWORK: (1) Read disclosure, sign, and have parents sign. Quiz next time. (2) Procure a notebook that will allow you to keep journal entries, prompts, notes, handouts, and assignments organized, handy, and always assessible. (3) Procure a book, magazine, blog, anthology, etc. of a good writer. You will be assigned short reading assignments and then respond in your journals. FRI., 17 JAN: CLASS EXPECTATIONS Pay Attention like a writer. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: Disclosure quiz, notebooks and reading procurements, website introduction. Introduce "gathering place" in journals for writing ideas. DISCUSSION: If you pay attention, inspiration for writing is everywhere. Create a gathering place. HOMEWORK: (1) Finish finding poems or messages in unlikely places. Black out all but the message or poem. (2) On a separate piece of paper, write the found message or poem. TITLE your piece. (3) Find 5 snippets or scraps of ideas, words, phrases, conversation, ideas, names, etc. that might be used as writing inspirations. WEEK TWO Wed., 22 Jan. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES HOMEWORK: Turn in found poem with blackouts and actual poem/message on separate piece of paper. REVIEW: Write three new items you know or are thinking about in a new way as an outgrowth of discussions and activities from week 1. Write best snippet you found. PROMPT: "We threw away these things." OR "We found these things." OR "These things [saved, scared, delighted] me." WRITING: Combine your "gathering place" snippets with your prompt. Expand, change, organize, delete, to create a list or poem that reflects you as a writer: your style, humor, ways of seeing the world, what interests you, etc. DISCUSSION: Goals and objectives. We improve if we're consciously engaged and mindful of where we're at, what we're trying to learn, and where we want to be. District and class goals. Determine personal goals. JOURNAL ENTRY #2: Read district and class goals and consider your own interests, desires, needs, weaknesses, strengths, and write down how you plan to meets those goals. Identify at least three personal goals and state specific steps you will take to meet those goals. HOMEWORK: (1) Make sure your journal is organized so that each entry is numbered and dated. (2) Make sure you have an effective way of collecting snippets and scraps to add to your "gathering place" in your journal. (3) Make a bookmark that lists your personal goals. E.C. for style! Use bookmark when you do your reading at home. Refer back to goals and read consciously, thinking about your goals. Fri., 24 Jan. PARTICIPATION: write snippet on board; HOMEWORK: Notebook with all entries, assignments, etc. Bookmark with goals/indicators. PROMPT: Choose from classmates' snippets on board. DISCUSSION: Read like a writer. Have a conversation with the text. PRACTICE: Excerpt from Euphony magazine. If you're absent, choose another text from which to take "Active Reading Notes." (see handout in <handouts> tab. HOMEWORK: (1) Read your book for at least 20 minutes. Take active reading notes--have a conversation with the text. (2) Do JOURNAL ENTRY #3: Respond to reading like a writer. See prompt and example in <handouts> tab. (3) Continue to gather snippets. You'll need 5 new snippets each weak in your "gathering place" in your journal. WEEK THREE TUES, 28 JAN. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: ARN/reading/Jrnl #3; notebook with all items properly organized PROMPT: CCHS phrases, sentences, words, students, "stuff." We'll use this next time to create a longer piece. REVIEW: abstract, concrete, juxtaposition, phrasing, details, sounds, etc. DISCUSSION: Writer's Toolbox (see <home> page for handout): Concrete details, sound devices, diction choice, strong verbs \WRITING: Continue/finish your list or rumination about what/how you perceive your world as a writer (prompt from 1/22/14). HOMEWORK: (1) finish rumination or list, title, and turn in next time. THURS., 30 JAN. WRITER'S TOOLKIT HOMEWORK DUE: (1) redone bookmark or goals and objectives in journal; (2) 5 new snippets. (3) Revised, expanded prompt from 1/22/14. Make sure it is titled. PROMPT: Write what you see, hear, taste, touch, feel, and experience on any given day at CCHS. OR Describe your first day or most interesting, worst, disturbing or funniest day so far at CCHS. OR Describe what is most unique or different about CCHS from your previous school. Use concrete details, great diction, interesting sounds and phrasing. DISCUSSION: Writer's Toolbox (make sure you have handout) ASSIGNMENT: Spellbound: watch, take notes like a writer. You will finish the video on Mon. and then use your notes to create a longer writing assignment (See Spellbound ARN and Assignment in <handouts> tab). HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) Decide what kind of writing piece you're going to do so that you can watch with a purpose on Mon. (2) Continue collecting snippets to add to your "gathering place" in your journal. WEEK FOUR MON., 3 FEB. PAY ATTENTION LIKE A WRITER NO PROMPT TODAY. Assignment: Spellbound: watch with a purpose, describe, create like a writer. If you are absent, you will need to view the documentary on Netflicks, Amazon, or the library by Wed., 5 Feb. Take one page of active watching notes and collect at least 10 snippets that you may be able to use to create your creative writing piece. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: 5 new snippets for week four. WED., 5 FEB. Writer's Toolbox HOMEWORK DUE TODAY:5 new snippets PROMPT: Just because Jaycee won the Clark County 52nd annual spelling bee... OR As the bell clanged, Jerome .... OR "Everyone but Gracie knew there was no "A" in "definitely." "And we have a champion" OR "Alright, I'm starting over." OR "She don't have to hear somethin' but once." DISCUSSION: Finish film. Review assignment. Look at examples to give you some ideas. WRITING: Work on writing piece you're creating from viewing the documentary. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: Keep collecting snippets. WEEK FIVE MON., 10 FEB. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: None PROMPT: "My Toyota grroans to a halt as I round the corner and slide into a wide parking space." OR "Lexi eats smelly onions raw like candy." OR "The rocky edge started to crumble, and I knew I was about to fall." DISCUSSION: Spellbound writing assignment. WRITING: Spellbound Assignment HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: Continue work on Spellbound assignment. WED., 12 FEB. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: in process draft of Spellbound assignment PROMPT: @CCHSyearone (brainstorm a list of shows, social media, music, celebrities, trends, events, etc. that are "hot" this year. WRITING: Continue Spellbound assignment. It's due AT THE BEGINNING of class next time. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) 5 new snippets--due at the BEGINNING of class. (2) Spellbound assignment-titled, written legibly in black or blue pen or word processed. FRI., 14 FEB. TREASURE CHEST PRESENTATION HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: 5 new snippets, Spellbound assignment PRESENTATION: LOUANNA TANNER WRITING: make "reverberations" book. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: Add at least 1-2 reverberations (sentences, phrases, paragraphs from your prompts) to the art book you created). Be ready to share in class next time. JOURNAL: #4 Reevaluation of goals/objectives. State what progress you've made, where you've fallen short, how you'd like to revise goals, what you're going to do (action plan) to achieve your goals by the end of the quarter), what you're learning about your learning/writing process, what you can do to improve it, etc. DUE 19 FEB. WEEK SIX WED., 19 FEB. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: (1) Art book reverberations, (4) Jrnl Entry #4 PROMPT: Write a prompt from one or a combination of the snippets you've collected. Underline the snippet(s). DISCUSSION: RO's, Frag's, CS's, incomplete verbs SHARE: Share art book reverberations; Spellbound pieces. Prose: Look for unintended run-on sentences and fragments. Poems: Revise 1/2 verbs, no verbs, no speaker/subject, no setting. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) 5 new snippets, (2) Journal #4 entry (if you didn't turn it in today) (3) Art book with excerpts from your writing showing the following: precise diction, concrete details, effective sound devices, strong verbs, and an example of a run-on, comma splice, or frag that you've corrected. FRI., 21 FEB. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: 5 new snippets, Jrnl #4, Art Book excerpts ASSEMBLY: no prompt REVIEW: Run-ons, comma splices, fragments SHARE: Spellbound Assignments WRITING: Revise Spellbound assignments HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) Jrnl #5: Read from outside reading (20 minutes). Take notes like a writer. Respond to the writing: What ideas came to you, what did you notice about specific language, sound devices, action verbs, etc. Effective rhetorical devices? Did the writer use fragments? Why would he/she have done that? What possible writing ideas came to you as you read, etc. (2) Revise Spellbound assignment based on feedback you received from classmates and your own critical examination. WEEK SEVEN TUES., 25 FEB. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: Jrnl #5, Revised Spellbound assignment PROMPT: "I knew ________ when _______." OR _______ made me. OR If I had ________ I'd _________ OR Just because I'm --------- OR What I'm not: OR I confess . . . or I'm a . . . REVIEW: JRNL #4 critique SHARE: Finish sharing Spellbound assignments--4th period DISCUSSION: Poetry Toolkit: Details--surprising, unexpected, juxtaposition, "one of these details is not like the other." YouTube samples WRITING: (1) self-exploration HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: 5 new snippets. THURS., 27 FEB. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: 5 new snippets; PROMPT: Continue prompt from last time, or choose one of the other "self exploration" prompts listed above for 25 Feb. and write on that. WRITING: Continue self-exploration, relationship, journey, sanctuary HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) work on snippets for next week and Jrnl 6, which is due THURS., 6 MAR. WEEK EIGHT TUES., 4 MAR. ACT TESTING HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: None WRITING: (1) Continue personal exploration assignment (2) write your own 6-word memoir HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: Jrnl #6. Read 20 minutes, take notes, Respond to techniques and rhetorical strategies you see the writer using--support your statements with evidence from the text. (2) snippets or writing ideas THURS., 6 MAR. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: 5 new snippets, Jrnl #6 PROMPT: Tweets from a person or object closely connected with you. SHARE: Spelling Bee writing WRITING: Finish personal exploration assignment and 6-word memoir. Both due at the end of class. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: Tweets from person or object close to you. WEEK NINE MON., 10 MAR., HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: PROMPT: "Key" prompts SHARE: personal exploration, 6-word memoirs. Listen and respond like writers. WRITING: Finish tweets HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: None WED., 12 MAR. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: None PROMPT: DISCUSSION: Fixed form poetry WRITING: fixed form poetry HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) 5 new snippets or ideas for writing (2) Journal entry #8 Reevaluation of goals/objectives. State what progress you've made, where you've fallen short, how you'd like to revise goals, what you're going to do (measurement indicators) to achieve your goals by the end of the semester). FRI., 14 MAR. **QUARTER CUT-OFF DATE** HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: 5 new snippets PROMPT: Review snippets. Create a piece incorporating snippets or ideas gleaned from snippets. DISCUSSION: WRITING: Identify 2 prompts and rewrite for submission to lit magazine. HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: (1) Review writing for the quarter and identify two pieces you will share with class and submit to lit magazine. WEEK TEN TUES., 18 MAR. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: PROMPT: DISCUSSION: SHARING: Sharing of writing with class. Submit to lit magazine.HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: THURS., 20 MAR. HOMEWORK DUE TODAY: PROMPT: DISCUSSION: SHARING: Sharing of writing with class. Submit to lit magazine.HOMEWORK FOR NEXT TIME: |
found poetry assignment
(1) Title piece. Title should draw reader in and complement the piece. DO NOT just title piece "Found Poem."
(2) Concentrate on finding interesting-sounding words or phrases, phrases and sentences that suggest unusual or interesting or unexpected actions or characters or settings. (3) Consider choosing phrases that show action or movement. found art from
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