Monday, January 23, 2012

Bring a favorite (or other) children's book today. 

1. Self-Starter:  Pick up your notebook and folder. 
a.  Pick a prompt from the list titled "Creative Writing Prompts About Me," and write at least a half-page response in your notebook.  Give it a title and today's date.
b.  Write a response to the picture projected on the screen.  You could write a description, a commentary, a poem, a brief story, or whatever you're moved to write based on that picture.  Your response should be about a half-page or so long.  Give it a title and today's date.

Brian Kershisnik: Flight Practice with Instruction

2. Mini-lesson on editing (especially editing for the children's books).    
Handout  

3. Me-Bags

4. Look at children's books.

Qualities of Children's books:
simple, sound effects, stupid = funny, nonsense, voices, short text, colorful, pictures, tongue-twisters, rhyming, rhythm, simple problems--- quickly solved, repetition,  about food, animals, talking animals,

5. If time:  Learn about a published author.  Today our spot-lighted author will be Christopher Paolini --

6. If time: Create a headline for a true story about you.