Thursday, February 28, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013

1.   Self-Starter: 
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 the word "rain."
c. respond to this photo:



2.  More Love That Dog and writing "Inspired By" Poems. 

If extra time, perhaps a bit of The Hormone Jungle poetry.  

-- Finish your "Found Poetry" and check it off with Ms. Dorsey before you hang it up. 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

1.   Self-Starter: 
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 the word "blue."
or to

Any more poems to share? 

2a. Finish
Found Poetry
2b. Share Found Poetry

3.  More Love That Dog and writing "Inspired By" Poems.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Monday, February 25, 2013

[Those of you who didn't, share your stories in a small group.]

1. Individual Writing:
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.

http://amzn.to/Y4WeCN



Any more poems to share? 

2. More Love That Dog and writing "Inspired By" Poems.


3. Found Poetry 





Thursday, February 21, 2013

Thursday, February 21, 2013


Parent Teacher Conference

Parent Teacher Conference will  be held on 
Thursday, February 21 from 3:30 - 7:30. 









Today: 
1.   Self-Starter: 
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 the word "animal" or "animals."

2.  More  Love That Dog and creating "Inspired By" poems. 

(B6 is available in 211 -- Hmmmm) 

3.  If extra time, a bit of The Hormone Jungle poetry. 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Notice:  There will be no Cave Time Intervention on Tuesday the 19th, since Ms. Dorsey will be leaving with our team for  a Mock Trial Competition that day.


1. Self-Starter: 
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 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.





2.  Finish Poetry and Chocolate Presentations

3.  Begin reading Love That Dog and creating "Inspired By" poems. 

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Notice:  There will be no Cave Time Intervention on Tuesday the 19th, since Ms. Dorsey will be leaving with our team for  a Mock Trial Competition that day.

Valentines Day!
Poetry and Chocolate Today!

1. Write anything at all you want to write about this word "Love." 

2.  Get ready for presentations --
        Hot chocolate and Treats?

If extra time:  Hormone Jungle?  or Love That Dog _____________

Poems Ms. Dorsey enjoys sharing on Valentines' Day:

Vinegar Man


How Do I Love Thee?


Monday, February 11, 2013

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Next time: Poetry and Chocolate!

1. Complete one of these writing prompts:

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 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.
This is what the moon looked like last night, but not so big!


2. Computer Lab   Be prepared to entertain us with your poem(s)!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Friday, January 8, 2013



Prompt:  Write in response to any of these quotations about poetry:

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Read more at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_poetry.html#5HUxpZAab5IxcTeR.99

 "Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti


A Poem About Poetry

and another:  

The Trouble with Poetry




2. Me-Bags
Reminder of Poetry Assignment:    Poetry

3. Computer Lab 


 


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Another First Sentence



Of Mice and Men was published 76 years ago today. Here's the opening sentence!

"A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."



Sunday, February 3, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013



Write in your notebook about this prompt:

Picture Prompt -- Magritte La Voix. . .


Punctuation video

Punctuation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtqqmzM3nrI

Me-Bags

Computer Lab to finish short story:  "A Fantastic Day"
   

4. This time or next: If you have finished and revised and edited your "A Fantastic Day" story, begin writing  a story based on me-bag notes--  . .

Story Based on Me-Bag Notes

 

Next time, but you could get started: Browsing through Poetry on the Internet 
You're looking for poems for our poetry and chocolate party next week. 

 


 



Summer Writing Camps at BYU

I'm sharing this information in case anyone is interested.   It is about writing camps available this year at BYU.

http://ce.byu.edu/cw/writing/

Friday, February 1, 2013

Lots of Creativitiy!



Very creative short film about guacamole! 

Monday, February 4, 2013 Minimal Day



Minimal Day

Time Period Minutes
8:15 – 9:15 1st Period 60 minutes
9:20 – 10:20 2nd Period/Announcements 60 minutes
10:20 – 10:45 First Lunch 25 minutes
10:50 – 11:50 3rd Period 60 minutes
10:25 – 11:25 3rd Period 60 minutes
11:25 – 11:50 Second Lunch 25 minutes
11:55 – 12:55 4th Period 60 minutes


1. Writing Prompt:   You could write a description, a commentary, a poem, a brief story, or whatever you're moved to write based on the picture below.  Your response should be about a half-page or so long.  Give it a title and today's date.



2. Finish up Me-Bags 

3. Computer Lab to finish short story:  "A Fantastic Day"
    Demo by Ms. John on finding teacher comments and 
        embedded comments. 

4. This time or next: If you have finished and revised and edited your "A Fantastic Day" story, begin writing  a story based on me-bag notes--  . .

Story Based on Me-Bag Notes


5.  Punctuation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtqqmzM3nrI


Vinegar Man

The Vinegar Man


The crazy old Vinegar Man is dead! He never had missed a day before! 
Somebody went to his tumble-down shed by the Haunted House and forced the door. 

There in the litter of his pungent pans, 
the murky mess of his mixing place 
Deep, sticky spiders and empty cans 
with the same old frown on his sour old face.


Vinegar - Vinegar - Vinegar Man! 
Face - us - and - chase - us - and - catch - if -you - can!
Pepper for a tongue! Pickle for a nose! 

Stick a pin in him and vinegar flows! 
Glare -at-us- swear -at-us- catch - if - you-can!
Ketchup - and - chow - chow - and -Vinegar -Man!


Nothing but recipes and worthless junk; 
greasy old records of paid and due 
But down in the depths of a battered trunk,
a queer, quaint Valentine torn in two? 

Red hearts and arrows and silver lace, 
and a prim, dim, ladylike script that said 
"With dearest love, from Ellen to Ned!"


Steal - us - and - peel - us - and - drown - us -in - brine!
He pickles his heart in a valentine! 
Vinegar for blood! Pepper for his tongue! 
Stick a pin in him and 
...once he was young! 

Glare -at-us- swear -at-us- catch - if - you - can! 
"With dearest love" to the Vinegar Man!


Dingy little books of profit and loss 
(died about Saturday, so they say), 
And a queer, quaint valentine torn across . . .

torn, but it never was thrown away! 
"With dearest love from Ellen to Ned" 

"Old Pepper Tongue! Pickles his heart in brine!" 
The Vinegar Man is a long time dead: 

he died when he tore his valentine. 


by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

How Do I Love Thee?

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

This Living Hand by John Keats -- Poetry



This Living Hand
                       -- John Keats   1819?

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calmed -- see here it is --
I hold it towards you.