Creative Writing 5/5 – 5/9
Monday 5/5
1. Journal: Describe your experiences
with research writing. What did you
do? Notecards? Outlines?
What did the final paper “sound like”?
Were you happy with it? Was the
experience fun? Fascinating? Sum up by saying what research writing means
to you – in one word. Finally, what does research have to do with
creative writing – if anything?
2. Begin Multigenre
Project
a. Discuss journal in some depth.
b. Distribute a sample Multigenre paper.
c. Examine together. Discuss what we are looking at.
d. Read
the rest of it tonight if needed.
Tuesday 5/6
1. Journal: Respond to the
Multiple Genre paper you read. Comment
freely on subject matter, approaches, tone, what you liked, what you didn’t,
what surprised you.
2. Multigenre Project
a. Discuss journal and paper in general.
b. Formally assign Multigenre Research Paper
1) Guidelines
and Requirements
3) Strategies
and Possibilities
4) Research
Design – to be completed over the rest of the week; I won’t even expect
these until late Friday.
c. We will be in the media center the next
three days to allow you to do your research.
d. Begin brainstorming on a separate sheet
of paper. Feel free to suggest topics or
ask questions as you see fit.
Wednesday 5/7
1. Journal: none
2. Multigenre Project (media center
computers)
a. Click on the Multigenre Link directly
above. Take a look at what is available
to you. Did you see the MLA guide? Good.
That means I don’t have to answer any questions about formatting your
bibliography/works cited! Whoo hoo!
b. Finish brainstorming for
topic/topics. Feel free to explore the
web and our databases to come up with ideas.
Let me help if you are stuck.
c. Use your Research Design handout to
guide you along, filling it out as you go. I don’t expect these until Friday at
the earliest.
1) You can always print another one, so don’t worry
if you have few false starts.
2) Helpful
Hint: I always find one of the most important aspects of picking a topic is
just finding out if there is much I can find about it.
d. Of course, at this point you are just
acquiring sources (but don’t forget the bibliographic info you will need).
e. Teacher consultation as you wish.
Thursday 5/8
1. Journal: none
2. Multigenre Project
(media center computers)
a. Continue your searching for ideas and
research.
b. Fill out your Research Design sheet as
you go. We’ll want these filled out by the end of the period tomorrow.
1) You can always print another one, so don’t worry
if you have few false starts.
2) Helpful
Hint: I always find one of the most important aspects of picking a topic is
just finding out if there is much I can find about it.
c. Don’t forget to collect the
bibliographic info for our sources as you go.
d. Teacher consultation as you wish.
Friday 5/9
1. Journal: (save to your L drive) How’s it going so
far?!
2. Multigenre Project
(media center computers)
a. Finish initial research. From here, you are expected to complete your
research on your own.
b. Complete the Research Design sheet and have
checked. If you aren’t checked in class,
leave it with me for checking.
c. Teacher consultation as you wish.