4-1-11 Finish Sci Fi Stories

I'm not going to be in class today. Please help the sub get the projector (use NEC remote to turn on projector and turn to Video 1) and audio (Video 2) ready.

1. Daily Journal: "Behind her the noise escalated..."

2. Lyrics: Kyle Anderson

3. Finish peer editing your science fiction stories. The final version is due on your blog at the beginning of the hour on Monday.

3-31-11 Short Stories

http://www.miettecast.com/2006/06/27/the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own/

http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/lifeyousave.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor

3-30-11 Peer Reviews

1. Daily Journal: The clock winked....

2. Lyrics

3. Today we will peer review your papers using Track Changes in Microsoft Word. Your final version of your story needs to be posted to your blog by tomorrow.

3-29-11 Peer Editing?

1. Daily Journal: What did you do over spring break?

2. Lyrics

3. Where are we with our sci fi writing projects? Peer editing in Microsoft Word - Track Changes?

3-17-11 Characters

3/17/11
1. Daily Journal: "I once dreamed about..."
2. Lyrics
3. Creating characters: http://www.fictionfactor.com/characters.html
http://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/create-characters.html

3/18/11
1. Daily Journal: If you could invent one thing to help mankind, what would it be?
2. Lyrics
3. Write your short story. Try to be finished before class begins on Tuesday, 3/29/11.

3/28/11
1. Daily Journal: Write from the point of view of a spoon inside a dishwasher.
2. Lyrics
3. Write your short story. Try to be finished before you come to class tomorrow.

3-16-11 Elements of a Short Story

1. Daily Journal: "I wish someone had told me..."

2. Lyrics

3. Elements of a short story: http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/elements.html

4. You will do a freewriting exercise brainstorming those elements for your science fiction story.

3-15-11 Science Fiction Writing

1. Daily Journal:


2. Lyrics

3. Finish technology presentations

4. Science fiction assignment

3-14-11 Technology Writing Presentations

1. Daily Journal: Write a short story titled, "My Journey on a Pirate Ship." You and your friends/family star in the story.

2. Lyrics

3. Technology Presentations

4. Science Fiction/Fantasy Assignment: http://www.writesf.com/

Imagine you were cryogenically frozen for 100 years. What would life would be like when you wake up? What new technologies exist? How do people would look and behave? What species are extinct or new (aliens)? Has there been a worldwide disaster? Your story needs to be at least five pages in length and will be due next week.

3-10-11 Technology Project Presentations

1. Daily Journal: Write about this:



2. Lyrics

3. You will present your assignments to the rest of the class.

3-9-11 Technology Writing

1. Daily Journal: Think of a fictional character you really like (from a book, movie, or TV show). Craft a story with that person losing the most valuable item to him or her.

2. Lyrics

3. Try to finish your technology writing project by the end of the hour. We will present these projects in class tomorrow.

3-8-11 Technology Writing

1. Daily Journal: Write from the point of view of a stack of paper a few inches away from the shredder.

2. Lyrics

3. You will work on your technology writing project today.

3/7 - 3/10 Technology Writing Project

1. Daily Journal: Marian Bartsch and Joey Catsalgi met on his first day of work...
(One of them had a rough childhood. Write their story)

2. Lyrics

3. Here's the plan for the week:

Monday - Choose one of the following technology writing tools to create your writing project:
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Writing+Tools

You need to post a brief treatment to your blog before the end of the hour. You will freewrite about the technology you will use and about what topic you will write.

Tuesday - Writing

Wednesday - Writing

Thursday - Present Your Projects to the Class

3-4-11 End of Poetry Unit

1. Daily Journal: You have just found out you are going to die. You are given all the money you could want. What would be your perfect day?

2. Lyrics

3. Villanelle Poetry Due

4. Write your own poem using what you learned during the first half of the course.

3-3-11 Villanelle

1. Daily Journal:What are the 10 most important moments in your life to this point?

2. Lyrics: Moe

3. Etheree Poetry is due

4. Villanelle Poetry:

In a traditional Villanelle:

• The lines are grouped into five tercets and a concluding quatrain. Thus a Villanelle has 19 lines.
• Lines may be of any length.
• The Villanelle has two rhymes. The rhyme scheme is aba, with the same end-rhyme for every first and last line of each tercet and the final two lines of the quatrain.
• Two of the lines are repeated:
  1. The first line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the second and the fourth stanzas, and as the second-to-last line in the concluding quatrain.
  2. The third line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the third and the fifth stanzas, and as the last line in the concluding quatrain.
• Thus the pattern of line-repetition is as follows:

  A1 b A2 - Lines in first tercet. a b A1 - Lines in second tercet. a b A2 - Lines in third tercet. a b A1 - Lines in fourth tercet. a b A2 - Lines in fifth tercet. a b A1 A2 - Lines in final quatrain.

CRETE - 1941 AND 1971 by J. Zimmerman.

At the village entrance, the glass casket, full
of human bones, meets the traveler to Crete.
The moon gleams like a skull upon each skull.

Fishermen (fathers, husbands, or sons of these sorrowful
fragments) ferried to ships the Allies in retreat.
At the village entrance, the glass casket, full

of ghosts of women and children torn fearful
from cottages, remembers the Nazi military elite.
The moon gleams like a skull upon each skull,

upon slim bones from arms that once could lull
babies, and upon bones from babies feet.
At the village entrance, the glass casket, full

of thighbones, commemorates those too slow to haul
themselves into the hills. In the evening heat,
the moon gleams like a skull upon each skull.

Three decades later, German sailors, dull
to history, laugh together jostling on a seat
at the village entrance - the glass casket. Full
the moon gleams like a skull upon each skull.

3-2-11 Etheree

1. Daily Journal: How ridiculous I was as a...
Include the words drench, silly, goofy, twist, octopus

2. Lyrics

3. Acrostic poetry due
4. Etheree Poetry

The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables.  Etheree poems can
also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  Get creative and write an Etheree with
more than one verse, but follow suit with an inverted syllable count.

Reversed Etheree:  10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Double Etheree:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

...Triple Etheree, Quadruple Etheree, and so on!

Example #1:

Your Wild Awakening

Scent
of woods;
callouses
on hands I stroke
speak of hard-spent days.
I trace a stubbled chin
and hear my name unspoken
in a warm unwavering gaze.
Pressing kisses taste of surging need.
I revel in your wild awakening.

Copyright © 2003 Andrea Dietrich

Example #3:

The Lair

Where haze invades iniquitous corners;
raucous music saturates the room,
the Ecstacy-induced twining
of hot, pulsating bodies,
a mimicry of mass
lewd copulation,
slows the thick air;
emptiness
stifles
me.

Copyright © 2003 Andrea Dietrich

3-1-11 Acrostic Poetry

1. Daily Journal: Write about ways you would change the world if you could. Start with our own government and then move out to the real world.

2. Lyrics: Bree

3. Concrete poem due

4. Acrostic Poetry (Name Poem): A Name Poem, or Acrostic Poem, tells about the word. It uses the letters of the word for the first letter of each line.

Nicky
by
Marie Hughes

Nicky is a Nurse
It's her chosen career
Children or Old folks
Kindness in abundance
Year after year

Your assignment is to do an acrostic poem with your first and last names (you can include your middle name if you'd like).