Creative Writing - First 9 Weeks, Second Semester Grades

(Final as of April 6, 2003.)

 

Written Work, Drafts, and Practice Exercises = 25% of your total grade.

 

_____ of   10  Due: 1/31  Student Information Form Submitted

_____ of   50  Due: 2/4    Piece 1: Picture Based Short Story FC w/ RRD

_____ of   10  Due: 2/4    Parent Orientation Letter Signed or Submitted Online

_____ of   10  Due: 2/7    Portfolio Materials In

_____ of   10  Due: 2/10  Personal Narrative Idea Prewriting Paragraphs

_____ of   25  Due: 2/12  Personal Narrative Rough Draft

_____ of   10  Due: 2/12  Personal Narrative Peer Reading

_____ of   10  Due: 2/12  Reader’s Digest Personal Narrative Review

_____ of   25  Due: 2/19  Personal Narrative RRD

_____ of   10  Due: 2/24  Inverness Contest Piece RD

_____ of   50  Due: 2/25  Piece 2: Personal Narrative

_____ of   10  Due  2/26  Inverness Contest Piece FC

_____ of   10  Due: 3/4    Cranium Game Handout

_____ of   10  Due: 3/10  Microfiction 1

_____ of   10  Due: 3/12  Response Questions to “The Sniper”

_____ of   10  Due: 3/12  Short Story PW – plot points

_____ of   10  Due: 3/13  Setting Planning – 2 Paragraphs + maps if appropriate

_____ of   10  Due: 3/17  Microfiction 2

_____ of   10  Due: 3/18  1 page character sketch of your main character w/ one paragraph mini-sketches for all others

_____ of   20  Due: 3/21  Dialogue Practice Exercise

_____ of   10  Due: 3/31  Microfiction 3

 

_____ of  330 Total for Written Work, Drafts, and Practice Exercises

 

Class Participation – The Writing Process = 75% of your total grade.

 

_____ of   50  Journal

_____ of   50  Portfolio

_____ of 100  Overall Class Participation: based on the Class Participation Scoring Guide & daily attendance records.

 

_____ of 200 Total

 

Extra Credit

 

10 points: Parents submitted Online Information Form – 2/4

various points: Peer readings of outside work.

10 points Due: 3/19  Character autobiography enrichment writing