April 21, 2008

April 21, 2008
Self-Starter: Create a "Fumish." 1. Make up a "nonsense" word. Examples: girrac, waspoyj, murple, fumish. 2. Write a brief story, beginning each word with the next letter of your nonsense word. If you were to lay out a sentence vertically, it would look like this for the nonsense word "Boomple":
Blistering
Oozing
Ointment
Mangles
Peevish
Ladylike
Empresses

You will write yours as if you are writing a story, starting at the beginning of the word again everytime you've come to the end of it.
Example: FUMISH
Furry underwear makes interesting styles humorously funny. Uncanny men investigate startling homocides found under mysteriously interesting situations. Hats form under mountains infused slyly. Horses from under Madagascar include striking Herbert F. Uber. Many imbecilic sheep herd fast under monkeys in shining headdresses.

Other Class Activities Today:
Quotable Quotes: Write on your first Quotable Quote page this quote:
"The myth that we must have 'time' -- more time -- in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have. if we are forever yearning for 'more,' we are forever discounting what is offered." -- Julia Cameron, The Right to Write, page 13

Editing: Students received a tape in to go on the back of the page before your Proofreading pages.

Work on Children's books: Students were able to work on the books for the kindergarten children, with the computer lab available.