• Poetry Portfolio Due 12/16 - Intro Page, Title, At least 12 of the 15 poems, some graphics.

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2. Plot: Today we will be searching for a Plot.  We want a story to tell.  So let's look at the myths, fairy tales, and fables of human history.  Check out this Hans Christian Anderson, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tales from around the World, or do a search of your own.
3. Find a story that you can adapt to a modern setting.  Write a list of the actions of the plot in a column on the left hand side of a piece of paper.  Now write your adaptation of the plot on the right.

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1. Work Day: Check in with Rob
   

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2. Setting: Map Exercise II from Mugging the Muse.

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2. Setting: Map Exercise II from Mugging the Muse.

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2. Map Exercise I from Mugging the Muse.

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2. Setting: 

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2. Dialogue Assignment Part III

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2. Dialogue Assignment Part II.  When you have finished part one type it up, save it in your folder, print it out and turn it in.
3. Then begin part III

1. S.P.E.W. #18 – This is a non-standard SPEW.  How do people talk?  In quotes, write down things you have heard people say.  Try to get some from real life, but also use lines from film or books if you wish.  Try to capture the exact sound of the words.  Use “wanna” instead of “want to.”  Try to write in the broken sentence fragments and interruptions that really occur in a conversation.
2. Dialogue Assignment Part I.  When you have finished part one type it up, save it in your folder, print it out and turn it in.
3. Then begin part II.

1. S.P.E.W. #18 – This is a non-standard SPEW.  Please answer the following questions in your notebook.  What is a story?  What parts make up a story?  What do you have to have?  Why do people tell stories?  
2. Fiction Assn. #1.  Today you are going to tell a story.  You will be writing an excuse note to be delivered to your teacher telling why, in aggravating detail, you were not at school yesterday and why you do not have the assignment that was due.  Be creative.  Tell the biggest tall tale you can think of or make it incredibly believable.  Remember there is a “lie” in the middle of “believe.”
3. Time to finish poetry portfolio PowerPoint.  Then please take several minutes to evaluate the poetry assignments.  In your notebook list all fifteen and evaluate them as far as difficulty or ease.

1. Intro to scriptwriting.
   

1. Last Day to Work on Poetry Portfolio
   

1. Poetry ePortfolio PowerPoint

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2. Formal Poem: Go to the following website: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/197.  Read through the glossary to find out a new form of poetry that you have never written.  Choose one to try.  Some suggestions are Limericks, sonnets, Terza Rima, Ballad, Prose poem.
   Write one for the final Poem.
   
3. Poetry ePortfolio PowerPoint
   

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2. Metaphor Poem
   

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2. Poetry Portfolio - Intro Page, Title, At least 12 of the 15 poems, some graphics.

1. Find a Poem by someone else and one by you to read.
   
2. Poetry Kaffeeklatch

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2. Travel/Motion poem:  See samples Steps/Leaving L.A. in robpoetry in TempStudFold/Class Resources.
   

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2. Graphic poem
   

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2. You Poem
   

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2. Themes in Poetry
3. Character Poem.  Use and save Character Sketch form.
   

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2. Themes in Poetry - What is each of your poems about?
   
3. Write a Theme Poem
   

1. S.P.E.W. #8 - Focused - 15-25 Childhood memories: Phrases, words
2. Childhood Memory Poems Assignment #6: Take one of the Childhood Memories above and expand it into a poem, 14-20 lines.  Feel free to do free verse (no rhymes.).  Sample: Cat in the Woodshed, In and Out

1. Work/Typing Day
2. Check-in with Rob
   

1. S.P.E.W. #7
2. Acrostic poems - Poem Assignment #8
   Do at least 25 lines - May do three or more.

Day 6 - 11/21

1. S.P.E.W. #6
2. Refrigerator Poetry
3. Twenty Questions Poem
   

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2. Headline Poem
   

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2. "I" poem
   

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2. Haiku
   

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2. Sensory Poem: About a Day - Poem #1:  Write a poem of at least 10 lines using at least some of your 10 Sensory Expansion sentences from yesterday. 
   
3. Note on Poems, Typing and Writing Portfolio:   All poems except the Graphic poems will be typed.  Graphic poems will be scanned in.  Each student will create a writing portfolio in PowerPoint or in HTML/Mozilla.  The poetry portion will be completed by midterm and is required for passing.

1. Introduction:
2. Rob's General Syllabus
3. Concept of S.P.E.W. - Student Personal Expository Writing.  Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg.
   
4. Expectations: We will write.  Then we will rewrite.  Then you will type it into the computer rewriting as you go.  Then I will give you suggestions and you will rewrite again.
5. Sensory Walk. Walk outside writing down all the sensory items STSTS (Sight, Touch, Scent, Taste, Sound) you can find.  Aim for 20.
6. Sensory expansion: How can you describe what you Saw, Touched, Smelled, Tasted and Heard (Sound) in a creative manner, with some depth.  Moving from "Picnic Table" to "Red-brick stained, rickety, rough picnic table."  Take 10 of your sensory items and expand them.  Samples

   ·         Picnic table rickety red rough table

   ·         Wind-Whipped Flag flailing it's metal clasps against the pole

   ·         Old diesel truck grumbling down the hill

   ·         Footsteps clicking on wood

   ·         Clouds, gray and white running from the wind

   ·         Crow greedily grabbing a bread crust

   ·         Wind whistling past my chilled ears