Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Student Suggestions for Activities

Suggestions for Activities:
Create games.
Write a story, then find or create a picture that tells the story without words.
Write more stories.
Write a description of a movie and the rest of the class guess the movie.
Poetry Jeopardy
More outside -- writing in nature
A poetry day to write all sorts of poems, not just those with particular formats
Predict someone's future and write it down
More writing activities and games
Write Acrostic and Alphabetical Poems


Favorite Activities 2015
Least Favorite 2015
Children's books
Children's books
Children's books
Children's books
Children's books
Walk and Write
Walk and Write
Walk and Write
Walk and Write
Walk and Write
Walk and Write
Scribbles
Writing part of a story and passing it on for the next person to add to it, then passing it on until it is done.
Concrete poetry
Concrete poetry
Poetry and chocolate
Poetry and chocolate
Creativity collages
Writing outside

Sharing what we wrote
Concrete poetry
Concrete poetry
Comic strip
Comic strip
Poetry
Look and describe
Children's book
Thinking of ideas
Scribbles
Love That Dog
Love That Dog
Poetry and Chocolate





Tuesday, May 26, 2015

May 28 -- Yearbook Day

Bring a good pen for signing, and plan ahead how you will sign.

  • Don't write anything you will regret later. 


Modified Schedule for May 28th

Yearbook day

A1 8:15-9:45 Hand out yearbooks and watch Norm Lyde’s movie
   Ms. Dorsey's  A1 English 7 class will see the movie before handing out the yearbooks.

A2 9:50-10:10

A3 10:15-10:35

A4 10:40-11:00

B1 11:05-11:25

B2 11:30-11:50

B3  11:55-12:15

B4 12:20-12:45

12:45-1:15 Lunch: Pizza and J-Dawgs

1:15-2:45 Outside yearbook signing/Field Games

Monday, May 18, 2015

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:
Don't forget to bring games and treats.
Turn in your unused hall passes if you have not done that yet.
Have a marvelous summer!   Summer Reading Suggestions -- 2015


Activities:
1.  Scribble:      Make-Up if you missed providing a scribble!

Also,  

Of the activities that we did in creative writing --

On a separate sheet of paper -- Write your name and answer these questions 

  • 1. What was your favorite activity and why?
  • 2.  What was your least favorite and why?
  • 3.  Do you have an activity to recommend that we did not do?  Explain it. 
2. Present any skits or comic strips not yet presented.


3. Games and treats 



Friday, May 22, 2015

Next time: Bring Treats-- your choice.

Today:  Turn in your hall passes for extra credit, if you are done using them.
And bring games.

Scribbles:
Halle
Denice
Jordyn


Prepare and Present Comic Strips
Prepare and Present skits







Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Thank yous for the thank you notes:

Please let the student's know I read every card and I appreciate them writing a thank you note to me!   They were very nice and I appreciate getting them!  I am glad they were a success for the elementary students!
Terese Hansen

Administrative Secretary, AFJH

It was a real treat to find those cute notes in my box this morning!  Thank you for thinking of me and having your students write them.  Such a nice surprise!!

-- 

Tiffany Olds



1.  Scribble:  Ally P.

Write to one of the prompts about you from the list in your composition book.


Next Time:     Make-Up if you missed doing one!


Humor!

Creating Comic Strips:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtVJdaqdqU








More humor -- What makes it funny?

videos -- possible: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m72GNRrvc88  tooth fairy

Brian Regan -- Spelling Bee   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzYaZDK6Is

International Relations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIh3N7_xGk

Channel Surfing

Your assignment -- Due Friday in class -- We will have about half of class to work on them.
Create a comic strip (quality draft) or write a brief skit  -- one to three minutes for skit.



Skit 1-3 minutes, longer, get my approval
Must write a script.


Comic Strip
4 or more frames for an individual
3 or more frames per students
Quality copy to present








Monday, May 18, 2015


1.  Scribble: Denise F. 

Write to one of the prompts about you from the list in your composition book.


Next Time:  Ally P. 




2.  Identify your concrete poetry


3.  Comedy!

Write about:

Who is your favorite comedian (or favorites)?

What is a favorite comedy -- movie or television show? 

What is a favorite comic strip, cartoon? 

Do you have a favorite joke? 








Create comic strips or brief skits  -- individually or with a partner.


Videos from today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OmQ7BnvWDU



videos -- possible: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m72GNRrvc88  tooth fairy

Brian Regan -- Spelling Bee   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzYaZDK6Is

International Relations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIh3N7_xGk

Channel Surfing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0s8Ard2oM







Thursday, May 14, 2015

Thursday, May 14, 2015


Scribble: Jared D. 

Next Time: Denise F. 



1. Write about how a failure can become a positive outcome.

2. Write to one of the prompts about you from the list in your composition book.



3.  Thank you's to 

Mrs. Hansen

Mrs. Olds



4.  Concrete Poetry
On the east side of the school
Create your concrete (shape) poem on the sidewalk



Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Tuesday, May 12, 2015



Deliver the books to the first graders!



Scribble: Halle N.  -- Since you didn't have one today, bring one as soon as you can, Halle!  

Next Time: Jared D. 



Write:  Tell about your experience creating a book for a first grader -- from receiving the 

assignment though interviewing, creating the book, and delivering it. 





Funny!  Brainstorm funny thing that have happened to you or that you have seen 

or heard of.

Draw and Write:  Create a cartoon for something funny that has happened to you, 

or some other funny situation or happening. 


For instance: 


That Aha! Moment
“Who discovered Pikes Peak?” I asked an eighth grader. He shrugged. “All right, here’s 
a hint,” I continued. “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?”
“Grant?” he asked 
tentatively.
“Good. Now, who 
discovered Pikes Peak?”
“Grant!”
Max Campbell, Dowagiac, Michigan

Thanks for the Help
On the last day of the year, my 
first graders gave me beautiful handwritten letters. As I read them aloud, 
my emotions got the better of me, and I started to choke up.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I’m having a hard time reading.”
One of my students said, “Just sound it out.”
Cindy Bugg, Clive, Iowa
Read more: http://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/funny-teacher-stories/2/#ixzz3ZxW7gSBv



Drawing:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tJPeumHNLY  at about 14:50

Draw a cartoon or comic strip for one of the situations you came up with.


How about a little hyperbole? 




Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Friday, May 8, 2015


Next Tuesday we will deliver the children's books!  

Scribble:  Lindsey M. 



Write about your dream job.



Next Time: Halle N. 








Writing for Mother's Day

No doggerel, please!  
doggerel: verse or words that are badly written or expressed


Your project:
If it is below average, you will receive nothing, nada, zilch.
If it is average, you will receive 75%.
If it is above average, you will receive 85%.
If it is absolutely outstanding, you will receive 100%.

Schedule:
Today, finish up so it is ready to give.


Your project could be
a long poem
a collection of short poems
a memoir
a short story
a story or poem with photos
"newspaper" article
What else?



Just for fun --



Sharing:  This is one of the poems that was written during our last class:
 
     Six Ways of Looking at a Grocery Bag
            Zealan T.

     Suffocation hazard!
     Get it away!

     A toy army man goes "Wheee!"
     On his new white labeled parachute.

     A piece of plastic

     A weird looking flying tumbleweed

     Get paper bags.
     Plastic ones don't decompose.

      A bag for carrying necessities
      from Macy's




Monday, May 4, 2015

Wednesday, May 6, 2015


Next Tuesday we will deliver the children's books!  

Scribble:  Misty (Ms. D)
     "Zeena and the Marshmallows"    Find a copy here: Zeena and the Marshmallows (1).doc




Next time: Lindsey M.









Writing for Mother's Day












Mother's Day Gifts of Poetry or Prose
for mother or for someone else.





Why Gifts of Writing?


  • They last.
  • They’re personalized and more personal than most other gifts.
  • They show more thought:  the writer spent a special kind of time and made a special kind of effort.
  • They show a writer’s love better than anything.
  • You can make your mother, father, or granny cry.


Your project:
If it is below average, you will receive nothing, nada, zilch.
If it is average, you will receive 75%.
If it is above average, you will receive 85%.
If it is absolutely outstanding, you will receive 100%.

Schedule:
Today, plan, write, and revise.
Next time, finish up so it is ready to give.


Your project could be
a long poem
a collection of short poems
a memoir
a short story
a story or poem with photos
"newspaper" article
What else?



Looking at three types of poems.
Sample Poems for Tritinas and .docx


Tritina:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/171056




   A Tritina About Snow        by PeytonJ. 
   White flakes of snow
   Sprinkle down and fall
   On the fluffy ice, which is cold.

   Every step I take it gets colder and colder.
   Everywhere I look I see my favorite thing, snow.
   I look up at the sky and watch the white ice fall.

   I run inside on the warm couch, and fall.
   I watch the moms and dads and their kids play in the cold, 
   I even observe the screaming kids that fall in the snow.

   As I fall asleep that night the only thing on my mind is cold and snow.




A Thirteen (or any number of) Ways of Looking at. . . . . Poem
Scroll down to examples: http://iws.punahou.edu/user/bschauble/ct/13ways.htm


Seven Ways of Looking at a Piano
Alicia Y.I.
In a cold silent room
the only thing that can be heard
is the light dancing notes of a piano.

II.
Inexperienced hands
pound on its black and white keys
the monster screams.

III.
A mass of somber people cloaked in black
sit silently in the hard pews of a church.
The piano is playing the final goodbye.

IV.
Happiness and kindness
nurture my soul.
Happiness, kindness and the piano
nurture my soul.

V.
On the piano,
black and white together make harmony.
Why can't that be so for us?

VI.
So beautiful is the perfect song
of the piano,
that even the angel choir in heaven
stops to listen.

VII.
At the sight of the piano,
my heart quakes with fear.
One day closer
to the night of the recital.



From Ode to Scissors -- Neruda

Prodigious
scissors
(looking like
birds, or
fish),
you are as polished as a knight’s
shining armor.

Two long and treacherous
knives
crossed and bound together
for all time,
two
tiny rivers
joined :
thus was born a creature for cutting,
a fish that swims among billowing linens,
a bird that flies
through
barbershops.
   (There are more stanzas here.) 
Now, I’ll cut this ode short
with the scissors
of good sense,
so that it won’t be too long or too short,
so that it
will
fit in your pocket
smoothed and folded
like
a pair
of scissors.







Some Samples of Gifts of Poetry, though they are for various family members: 



Walk to the Mail
   -- Siobhan Anderson

You say I have to come with you,
to journey across many fences
and lawns,
to go and retrieve the mail.
With a sign I step outside,
only to find myself in knee-high snow.
You take my mittened hand in yours
as we enter the small forest
and lightly jump the fence.

We pass a garden
covered with snow twinkling in the sun.
You tell me all the things that could grow here:
forget-me-nots, baby's breath, sweet peas.
I pray that spring will come soon.

We reach the mailbox
and unload the bills, letters, and postcards.
Then, slowly, we trudge back home.

But before we reach our door,
I glance back.
Leaning across the horizon, I see us,
shadow by shadow,
footprint by footprint in the blank snow,
father by daughter. 





Dinnertime Adagio  by Anne Atwell-McLeod

Three people
encircle
a warm oak table.

All day
their thoughts
dance
to different tunes
until
a mask
of India ink
spreads over the white house.

Then
they congregate
to eat the meal
that brings them
together.

Their voices
rise up
and
dance
to
one
tune
in the candlelight.

Their conversation
surrounds them.
Voices
bounce
back and forth.
And the tune
becomes a symphony.

When the music dies
the warm oak table
is cleared.
The three people
go their

separate ways,
and the
shards
of tonight's talk
rise
to take their places
in the musical mosaic
of our dinnertime conversations.






A Sort of Almost Tritina for Nat by Hallie Herz
When you came home from school,
all we wanted to do was wrestle,
Like little animals, we nipped and clawed. . .

and animals we were.
When Mom sent us downstairs, you pinched me
until I cried Uncle! (with my fingers crossed) then jumped up again to
 wrestle.

Bruised and battered, we eventually tired of wrestling.
Panting like wild animals,
you sported toothmarks, I a giant bruise.

This line is supposed to be the enjoy, but instead I'm going to use it to
tell you I miss you so much when you're gone and you're the best
brother in the entire world and I love you a lot.



If you have extra time, and need to wait, quietly read or work on writing something else.

Mother's Day jokes:  http://boyslife.org/features/29557/20-funny-mothers-day-jokes/


Another Time:  Clothing