Creative+Writing+Make-up+Work

Writing Day: Pantoums. || Journal 30: ||
 * Week 2/17-2/20 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * President's Day: No School. || Journal 29: Write about a man or woman who got stood up.
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 31: || Journal 32: ||  ||

Notes: Write three each. || Journal 25: Begin your entry with "Today I will..." Writing Day: Write Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Rough Drafts (three each). || Journal 26: Start your entry with "Today I will..." || Revision Day: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka Write one each for the final drafts || Journal 28: Fictionalize an event that happened to you. Writing Day: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, final draft, 1 each. Notes: ||   ||
 * Week 2/9-2/13 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * Journal 24: Choose someone to write about their life after high school. Have fun fictionalizing that person's future life.
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 27: Write a poem beginning with the line: "Bring me the sunset in a cup" from Emily Dickinson.

Writing Day: Sestina Rough Draft || Journal 20: Write about a task, job or chore that you dislike. My Papa's Waltz || Journal 21: A man sits next to you and starts confessing "the truth". Write about what "the truth" is. Make-up work day. || Revision Groups: Sestinas || Journal 23: Write about the biggest lie you've ever told. Writing Day: Sestina Final Draft ||  ||
 * Week 2/2-2/6 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * Journal 19: Use your entry to describe a hot day.
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 22: Start your entry with, "If I had the power to change something, I would change..."

Write five diamantes. || Journal 15: Write about a blue-colored object. Writing day: diamante rough drafts. || Journal 16: Describe the meal you would cook for an enemy. Notes Make your own word choice step chart by picking a basic word, listing 8 synonyms and fitting those synonyms into the chart from "least" at the bottom to "most" at the top. || Diamante Revision Groups. Diamante Final Drafts Writing Day || Journal 18: Write about a moment when you and another person (sibling, parent, friend, etc) bonded. Writing Day: Sestina Rough Draft (One) ||  ||
 * Week 1/26-1/30 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * Journal 14: Write about you felt when you discovered you were lied to.
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 17: Write a letter to someone you feel you need to spend more time with.

Writing day: Sonnet Rough Drafts (due). || Journal 11: Describe in great detail the worst meal you've ever eaten. Rules of Revision Video || Revision groups: Sonnets || Journal 13: Imagine your life is now a book. Write the blurb for it (the synopsis on the back cover). Writing day: Sonnet Final Draft ||  ||
 * Week 1/19-1/23 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * Martin Luther King Jr. Day: No School || Journal 10: What would you say or do to an uninvited guest?
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 12: If you could invent anything to help mankind, what would you do?

Work on Poetry Analysis Presentations || Journal 6: Make a list of things that annoy you. Choose one and write about it. Work on Poetry Analysis Presentations || Journal 7: Where do you go to get away from it when the world gets to be too much? Describe that place in great detail. Work on Poetry Analysis Presentations || Poetry Analysis Presentations || Journal 9: Checking your messages after school, you get to the third voice mail and freeze. Start your story there. Poetry Analysis Presentations ||  ||
 * Week 1/12-1/16 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * Journal 5: Come up with an excuse for why you can't work.
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 8: Write a letter to a hard teacher saying all the things you've wanted to say.

Syllabus What is poetry? Read in groups, come up with a definition, make a poster. || Journal 1: Write about deceit. Create Portfolios Close Reading notes and practice. || Journal 2: What would you do if you had three wishes? Review theme and symbol. Close read and discuss Elegy for the Giant Tortoises by Margaret Atwood || Notes: Poetic Terms and Assignment || Journal 4: Describe a boring day, but add details to make it not boring. Anything you want. Choose a poem for the poetry analysis presentation: Compete and present poetic terms assignment. ||  ||
 * Week 1/5-1/9 ||  ||   ||
 * Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday ||
 * Journal 0: Why did I choose to take creative writing? What are my goals? What do I hope to achieve?
 * Thursday || Friday ||  ||
 * Journal 3:Picture an object in your room and describe it with great detail.