Friday, January 25, 2013

1.  Retrieve your notebook from the crate.
2. Hand in your disclosure signatures and VIP form if you have them ready. 

3.  Today is a "You Choose" writing time.  You may either write about anything you'd like to work on, or select one of these prompts.  It's up to you.  Give it a title and today's date.

If you don't have something else you'd like to write about, either 
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.
or 
b.  Write a response to this 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.

4. Me-Bags

5.  Finding Fabulous Firsts
Take your composition book. You will find and copy first sentences that grab your attention, or that are just especially well-written.  

Create a chart for 
Book Title            Author                          First Sentence
One Hundred Years of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

Pride and Prejudice   Jane Austen  
 "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader    C. S. Lewis
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." 

The Crow Road    Iain M. Banks
"It was the day my grandmother exploded." 

http://americanbookreview.org/100BestLines.asp