A Falcon Nesting in a Tree

14-Year-Old Photographer

http://www.demilked.com/surreal-self-portraits-14-year-old-fiddle-oak/

How to Write Good

Summer Writing Camps at BYU

http://news.byu.edu/archive13-may-writing.aspx?utm_campaign=05292013&utm_source=ynews&utm_medium=emailhtml

For Writing Teachers

 Katie Wood Ray’s What You Know by Heart 

May 28, 2013

Bring games and treats.  

Writing and Fun and Games! 

Self-Starter: Imagine a fantastic summer vacation.  Describe it as if you have already experienced it.

Favorite Words of the 2013 Creative Writing Class

Silhouette - Riyanna D.

Chickabiddy -- Lily B.

supercalifragalisticexpialidoucious -- Emma R.

universe -- Dani C.

pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis -- Anonymous   Really!

scrumptious -- McKenna H.

Zimbabwe -- Ms. D.

chateau -- -- Anonymous

skadoosh -- Jayden M.

boisterous -- Morgan C.

spelunking -- Taevyn B.

scruples -- Eve M.

jacuzzi -- Hannah G.

lugubrious -- Lauren H.

raindrop -- Kaila J.

zinjanthropus ---- Anonymous

ecstatic ---- Anonymous

zucchini -- Rylee N.

interrogative -- -- Anonymous

coinkadink -- Kiley Q.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Next time:  Bring games and treats for a party!

Self-Starter:  Select one of the suggested options below from Gail Carson Levine, and write for 15 minutes. 

1. I have one green eye and one brown eye.  The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.
2. The ghost was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
3.  I am the most famous twelve-year-old [thirteen-year-old] in the United States.
4. Jason [or another name] had never felt so foolish before, and he hoped he'd never feel so foolish again.
5.  It was a witchy house: the low-slung roof; that quiet gray paint; those squinting, shuttered windows; and the empty porch rocker that rocked, rocked, rocked day and night.

from pages 3-4 of Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Scripts

Activity:
Tray of items
    Test your memory.
    Select five to use in a story.
    You may write your story in pairs or individually.

Your story needs a beginning, a middle, and an ending. 
It must be completed and turned in before the end of class today. 


Next time:  Bring games and treats for a party!

Those who need to, finish up assignments -- especially children's books!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

1. Self-Starter:  Write 1/2 page or more based on one of the prompts in your composition book.

2.  Writing Outdoors -- Observation and Description
         We went outside and completed three assignments:

•    "In a Circle"
•    Sound Map
•    Camera          

3.  Inside -- took down poetry from bulletin boards
         read some more poems from Hormone Jungle


See our class "newsletter" at
http://afcreativewriting.blogspot.com/

Friday, May 17, 2013

Self-Starter:  Write about the outdoors.  Things you've done in the outdoors, things you'd like to do, how you feel about nature, etc.

Prepare concrete poetry. 

Go outside!  Create concrete poetry on the concrete! 

Monday, May 13, 2013

Self-Starter: Select a prompt from your list of prompts.

cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org

Finish:  
Scripts
I Am From
Mother's Day Poems and Packets

Tee-Hee

Let's try some Dear Blank, Please Blank. . letters

More Pics for Prompts 2

Concrete Poetry

Day Jobs of the Poets

What You Can Do With Writing

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Prompt:  Freaky Friday
Write about trading places (totally trading places, with you in his or her body and he or she in yours)  with your mom or dad or another adult for a day. 

2.  Finish Child Books

3.  Mother's Day Cards with Poems:  Ode, Tritina, or Six-Ways Poem.
Do not make your card until your poem is approved.

"I Am From" Poems
Newsletter articles

Present scripts!!!!! 

May 7, 2013

Self-Starter:

Self-Starter:   Prompt: The Follower
Prompt:  Write about a time when you were the follower and did something stupid or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command  -- or wish you would have disobeyed.




May 12 -- Mother's Day  
odes
tritinas

: 
tritina     November 30, 2010
ways of looking at   Thirteen Ways Poem
ode    February 29, 2008       Neruda Odes

Here is the handout packet from last time: Poem Forms for Mothers' Day.docx 

or  Poem Forms for Mothers' Day.doc

Self-Starter:   Prompt: The Follower
Prompt:  Write about a time when you were the follower and did something stupid or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command  -- or wish you would have disobeyed.


Listen to a story, then write more.

2.  Sharing time

3.  Mother's Day Cards with Poems:  Ode, Tritina, or Six-Ways Poem.
Do not make your card until your poem is approved.

Prompts from Gale Carson Levine

Friday, May 3, 2013

Self-Starter:  iTunes:  Music 



2. Finish up and present  your scene. 
       List of characters -- with description
       Stage directions
       Dialogue

3. If you have not finished your "I Am From. . ." poem, finish it.

___________________________

One from Ms. Dorsey: 

I am from

The lowest branch on a favorite tree

Hills strewn with sagebrush and lava rock

Windbreaks of poplars, purple lilacs, and yellow roses

Cottonwood tree snow

I am from

Saturday homemade French fries with pink fry sauce and comic books – Superman!

Imaginary playmates for an only child

My own World Book Encyclopedia

          and nightmares from reading Lewis Carroll

Guitars and Old Time Fiddlers on grassy lawn oases surrounded by          dusty summer farmlands

I am

Man on the moon and Kennedy shot

Homecoming bonfires and hayrides

“Pity Parties” on prom night, and a corsage pinned to a lace and satin dress

Grades and graduations and “The Impossible Dream,”  still dreamed.

By C. Dorsey  11/25/02

I am from

that corner of the city library with all the cushions,

mud on my shoes from walking the shores of Utah Lake,

lots of overtime in tow windowless classrooms at A.F. Junior,

Red sand sifted through my car from a trip to Monument Valley.

I am from

being stranded in a broken-down car on the freeway and

deciding with my daughter that this is an "adventure,"

nightmares about missing appointments or

having no lesson plan at all for a class of thirty-eight A.D.H.D.

seventh graders.

I am

tomatosicles and midnight swims on New Years Eve,

homemade cresent rolls and pork buns,

piles of books waiting to be read,

mom to six and grandma to one and almost two.

                                                                                  -- Ms. D.