Advanced Creative Writing  3/3 – 3/7

 

Proficiency Test Schedule: shortened periods.  (37 mins)

Be sure to watch for lesson plan changes and be prepared to do a little more homework than usual.

 

Monday 3/3

 

1. Journal: none

2. Turn in copy of Inverness Contest PieceHave RRD of Resonance Piece checked if needed.

3. Student Workshop: Left/Right Brain Orientation (with laptops in media center)

    a. Using laptops, follow handout to complete assignment.

    b. Click HERE to see the handout and full assignment in online form.

    c. Get as far as you can today.

    d. We will be back in the lab to finish up tomorrow.

 

Tuesday 3/4

 

1. Journal: (after you finish the Left/Right Brain Orientation) Open write for the rest of the period and save to your hard drive.

2. Turn in late work: Inverness Contest Piece and/or Have RRD of Resonance Piece checked if needed.

3. Student Workshop: Left/Right Brain Orientation (with laptops in media center)

    a. Using laptops, follow handout to complete assignment.

    b. Click HERE to see the handout and full assignment in online form.

    c. Turn in your handout & responses when finished.

4. Do today’s journal.

 

Wednesday 3/5

 

1. Journal: What was the point of the activities with the Cranium Game and the Left/Right Brain Survey?  How can you use this information to help you in Creative Writing and in life in general?

2. Discuss journal – think in different ways; force yourself to be different.

3. Polish Resonance Piece and put in portfolio by end of the week.

4. Project Workshop: Personal Mythology Unit

    a. Assign Personal Mythology Unit with overhead and handouts. 

    b. Pictures and folders due Tuesday, 3/11.

5. HW: Read and write a one page response to William Wordsworth’s Line written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, pp. 298 - 301.

   

Thursday 3/6

 

No School – Calamity Day

 

Friday 3/7

 

1. Journal: Describe the speaker’s feelings about and relationship with Tintern Abbey in Wordsworth’s poem.  What did you think of the emotion and tone?  Too much?  Too little?  Just enough?  Explain.

2. Reader/Writer Workshop: The Nostalgia Poem

    a. Discuss Lines composed . . .

        1) Background on the poem: Romanticism and the Romantic notion of poetry: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings reflected upon in tranquility, especially in relation to nature and connecting to nature.

        2) Discuss journal: what did you think of his emotion.

        3) What makes this type of writing essentially nostalgica wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition.

        4) Essay response – write full (at least five sentence) responses to each of the following questions about Lines

            a) What passages stick out as particularly important?

            b) What feeling or relationship does each passage represent?  How is that expressed?

            c) What do you think the various parts of the poem/setting mean to the speaker?

            d) Due Monday.

3. Reminders:

    a. PM pictures and folders due Tuesday, 3/11.

    b. Polish Resonance Piece and put in portfolio by Monday.