Tuesday, January 27, 2015

 Kidblog   --  Here is the link:   http://kidblog.org/DorseyCreativeWriting72015S2/

Announcements and Reminders:  

• Your collage (pictures, illustrations, etc.) is due today (homework).  If it is not ready, bring it as soon as you can. 
• Your bio-poems are due by the end of class.  Share them with me on Google Drive.  Allow editing.

Smiley Treats:
Sarah A
Meghan H
Lance L
Keagen M
                 Hailey W

Scribble:  Jordan M.   --  Write the beginning of your own book.

Next Time: Ms. Dorsey


Reading About Writing
Writing Magic:  Chapter 2
Prompt from Gail Carson Levine:  a main character finds a diamond on a seat in his/her schoolbus,
or a main character finds a hat (that allows him/her to read people's minds) on a seat in a movie theater, or a main character finds  ___________________  on a ________________ in a _________.


Poem of the Day:

http://www.poetry-archive.com/d/these_are_the_days.html

Vocabulary helps

Indian Summer:  a time in autumn when the weather changed to feel like summer again
Sophistry:  a reason or argument that sounds correct but is actually false
Plausible:  having an appearance of truth or reason, believable 
Altered: changed 

THESE are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a backward look. 

These are the days when skies resume
The old, old sophistries of June,        5
A blue and gold mistake. 
Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee,
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief, 

Till ranks of seeds their witness bear,         10 And softly through the altered air Hurries a timed leaf! Emily Dickinson LXXVIII. Till ranks of seeds their witness bear,         10 And softly through the altered air Hurries a timed leaf!
Don't forget to be looking for a favorite poem to share on February 12.  That is coming up SOON!

Lab 223
1. Type up your bio-poems on Google Drive. 

• Follow the format your are given for each poem. 
• Words to know:  Stanzas in a poem are like paragraphs in an essay.
• Revise and Edit.   Make them the best you can.  
• Revise for format
• Revise for word use.
• You may use the class handouts for choosing precise and vivid words.  
• Edit for capitalization and punctuation and spelling. 

In the Lab 

• (Log into your account, open drive, open a document.)
• Share your poem with Ms. Dorsey.   cdorsey@alpinedistrict.org 
• Allow me to edit. 

If you have extra time:
2.   Kidblog   --  Here is the link:   http://kidblog.org/DorseyCreativeWriting72015S2/
Find your username.  You may add to it.  Leave your last initial and first name at the beginning.
Set up a post for your favorite words.   "[Your name]'s Favorite Words"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuCNAwXGaQ  -- 4:50

If you still have extra time, begin another post -- your choice.