1. END-QUARTER - November 9th

1. S.P.E.W. #33 - How do stories climax?  Specifics and generalities.
2. Create a climax to your story - the point where the end is uncertain. 150-200 words.

1. S.P.E.W. #32 - How do stories end?  Specifics and generalities.
2. Create an ending to your story. 150-200 words.

1. S.P.E.W. #31 - How do stories start?  Specifics and generalities.
2. Create a beginning to your story. 150-200 words.

1. S.P.E.W. #30 - Think of how your characters are going to talk and spew a bunch of words they might use and how they sound different from other characters.
2. Create dialogue between with 2 or more of your characters. 150-200 words.
   

1. S.P.E.W. #29
2.  - Think of settings for scenes in your story, spew a bunch of sensory descriptions.
   
3. Take your plot diagram from yesterday and create a description of the setting for your story. 150-200 words.

1. 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 (Scroll down to the story list.), Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tales from around the World, or do a search of your own.
2. Find a story that you can adapt to a different 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.

1. SickDay?!?!? - 60% absent!?!?!?
   

1. Finish Grab a Novel Part II

1. S.P.E.W. #28 –
2. Work Day

1. S.P.E.W. #27 –
2. Grab a Novel Part II

1. S.P.E.W. #26 –
2. Finish Map Exercise Part II

1. S.P.E.W. #25 –
2. Map Exercise Part II

1. S.P.E.W. #24 –
2. Finish Map Exercise Part I

1. S.P.E.W. #23 –
2. Map Exercise Part I

1. S.P.E.W. #22 –
2. Wrap up Dialogue Assn.
3. Check in on Grades

1. S.P.E.W. #21 –
   
2. Dialogue Assn.  Part III

1. S.P.E.W. #20 –
2. Dialogue Assn.  Part II

1. S.P.E.W. #19 –
2. Dialogue Assn.  Part II

1. S.P.E.W. #18 –
   
2. Dialogue Assn.  Part I

1. S.P.E.W. #17  –   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.”
2. What is a story?  Why is a story?
   
3. Grab a Novel #1 Handout
   

Mid-Quarter Grade Day.

1. S.P.E.W. #1? if you need to make any up.
2. Work on Poetry PowerPoint Portfolio

1. S.P.E.W. #1? if you need to make any up.
2. Work on Poetry PowerPoint Portfolio
3. Check in with Rob

1. S.P.E.W. #16
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.
   Poetry ePortfolio PowerPoint

1. S.P.E.W. #15
2. Character Poem

1. S.P.E.W. #14
2. Extended Metaphor Poem - Poem Assignment #12
3. Character Sketch Homework
   

1. S.P.E.W. #13
2. Travel Poem - Poem Assignment #11
3. Character Sketch Homework
   

1. Mt. Baker Field Trip
   

1. S.P.E.W. #12
2. Character Homework Sheet

1. S.P.E.W. #11
2. Graphic Poem - Poem Assignment #10

1. S.P.E.W. #10
2. You Poem - Poem Assignment #9

1. S.P.E.W. #9
   
2. Themes in Poetry - What is each of your poems about?
   
3. Write a Theme Poem - Poem Assignment #8

1. Make-up S.P.E.W.  Should have 8 total!
2. Grade check in and Work Day.

1. S.P.E.W. #8 - Focused - 15-25 Childhood memories: Phrases, words
2. Childhood Memory Poems Assignment #7: 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. S.P.E.W. #7
2. Refrigerator Poetry II
3. Haiku - Poem Assignment #6: Do at least 5 - May do more for E.C.

1. S.P.E.W. #6
2. Acrostic poems - Poem Assignment #4: Do at least 25 lines - May do three or more.
3. 20 Questions poem. - Poem Assignment #5

Day 6 - 9/13

1. CoffeeHouse Reading #1

1. S.P.E.W. #5
2. "I" poem - Poem Assignment #3

1. S.P.E.W. #4
2. Finish Headline Poetry.  You may do additional poems for extra credit. 

1. S.P.E.W. #3 - Writing Down the Bones
   
2. Refrigerator Poetry I
3. Headline Poem - Poem Assignment #2
   

1. S.P.E.W. #2
2. 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

3. 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. 
   
4. 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.