Creative+Writing

Questions? Concerns? Email Mrs. Chausse lchausse@clintonpublic.org [|Google Docs]- Google Docs allows you to share your work with your classmates and your teacher. Google Docs also provides a great format for collaborative projects.

Creative Writing Class Wiki

Creative Writing Blog

DAILY JOURNAL PROMPTS

**Sites for Creating Cartoons**

Virtual Freedom Writer Field Trip

HOMEWORK **Due Thursday January 27**= Email me. Create a Google Docs account. Bookmark this wiki space.

**Due Monday January 31**= Submit 5 writing prompts. Type the prompts on the Google Doc document. See the links below for possible prompts.


 * Due Friday February 4, 2011 **= Bring a childhood picture of yourself to class. This should be a picture from approximately age 1-9

**Due-** Future Topics item and paper see schedule

(4) || Danny, Tom, Tyler, Mitch || Tuesday February 8 || (4) || Jessie, Jazz, Meredith, Stacey, Nghi || Wednesday February 9 || (7) || Pedro, Adam, Spenta, Paige, Ashley, Cara || Thursday February 10 || **Due February 8-** Create a page on the Creative Writing Wiki.
 * **Date to share your object** || **Students** || **Date to turn in the student comment sheet and your word processed cover sheet** ||
 * Friday Feb 4
 * Monday Feb 7
 * Tuesday February 8
 * Wed February (3) || Jordan, Morgann || Friday February 11 ||

**Due Friday February 11**- Bring a picture of your younger self.

**Due Monday February 14-** Typed What Have I Become essay. Load a copy of the essay onto wiki.

**Due Tuesday February 15-** Read the comments from your classmate. Revise your paper. Upload to wiki. Bring a print copy. Turn in to me- rubric, first draft and final draft of essay.

**Due Wednesday February 17-** Write a page of a personal experience... Type your page. Bring a printed copy to class.

**Due Thursday February 18-** Revise and finish your essay. Bring a copy to class. Upload a copy to wiki.

**Due Monday February 28-** Read On Writing by Steven King 1- 20. Respond to my blog post on the Creative Writing Blog.

**Due Tuesday March 1-** Read the blog comments on On Writing. Respond to a classmate's blog entry. Creative Writing Blog

**Due Tuesday March 8**- Read On Writing through Toolbox. Write a blog response. Creative Writing Blog Bring a final copy of your personal essay to class. Bring all drafts.

**Due Wednesday March 9**- Blog entry on Freedom Writers Creative Writing Blog 

**Due Friday** on writing 188 (beginning of section 8) and 189 in the large book. Be prepared for a quiz.

**Due Monday March 14th-** Bring a copy of a paper you wish to submit to the contest. <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">Begin planning your toondoo and your toolbox.

<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">**Due Tuesday March 15th-** Create a detailed plan for your toodoo creation. Determine the audience. Sketch the plot. Determine the characters.

<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">**Due Friday March 18th-** Finish reading the "On Writing" section of On Writing ( page in the smaller book). Be prepared for a quiz.

<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">**Due Tuesday March 22nd- draft of toon doos is due. Upload to wiki before the beginning of class.**

<span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">**Directions for uploading the toon doo to the wiki** <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;"> <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 10px;">**Due Thursday March 24th-** materials for the //On Writing// toolbox are due. We will be assembling and creating the toolbox in class. Decide how you will fulfill the requirements of the assignment.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Friday March 25th- **Complete your self evaluation of your toon doo before class begins. During class evaluate two peers' toon doos.

**Due Monday March 28th-** Bring your writing to share in the read a round if you have not shared your material yet. No personal essays accepted after today. Also bring your On Writing book to class and your tool box materials.

**Due Tuesday March 29th-** Final toon doo is due today. Be prepared to share your project with the class.

**Sites for Creating Cartoons**


 * Due Friday April 1- ** Tool Box is due! Finish reading On Writing. [[image:https://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png height="32" link="https://chausseclasses.wikispaces.com/file/view/final+project.doc"]] [|final project.doc]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday April 4 -** Create a character. Describe your character's physical characteristics, emotional personality, and history in the blog. Make certain to provide details to let us know who your character is. Blog


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Tuesday April 5th- **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Read your classmates' blog character descriptions. Comment on the character. Ask questions. Encourage the character creator to add more depth to the character.


 * Due Wednesday April 6th- ** Read your classmates' comments on your character. Add detail to the character.

**Due Thursday April 7th**- Read Trifles. Be prepared to answer questions on the play tomorrow in class. Create your Google Docs account by Monday. Google Docs

**Due April 12th-** proposal for play

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Thursday April 14th-** Poem in your Pocket Day- Bring a poem in your pocket. Be prepared to explain why you chose this poem. At the end of class, your play is due.

//**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday April 26th at 12:20 we will talk to Darrius Garrett by Skype in room 41. Bring $8 to cover the expense of the talk. Darrius' life was changed by Miss Gruwell. He was a Freedom Writer. **//**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Darrius Garrett's Website Background information on Darrius Garrett Chasing the Frog- Movie vs. Reality **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Submit at least two questions for the Darrius Garrett web visit- https://docs.google.com/document/d/17-FjWj-2ef5ZhcDe9m2wm6GUTRsS5QHk9n4-4CITH7o/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJHTiOwN **

gang violence. His own father died of AIDS. After being arrested for drug possession in the 9th grade, Darrius was jailed. He was later released and enrolled in Ms. Gruwell’s English class, a move that he believes changed his life. Darrius came to realize that he didn’t want the street life anymore; he wanted to change- even if it meant his life. Darrius is now a published rapper, songwriter, author, poet, and aspiring actor. He serves as an Americorp volunteer, dedicated to increasing awareness about HIV/AIDS, especially among young people. As a Freedom Writer speaker, Darrius is particularly skilled at motivating young people to express their creativity, and to avoid negative influences in their lives." (from http://www.freedomwritersfoundation.org/atf/cf/%7BB2A26556-086E-4FFA-AF6C-DC4EE722C801%7D/The%20Freedom%20Writer%20Speakers%202009.pdf).
 * "Darrius Garrett** is portrayed in the film Freedom Writers **as the student who is homeless and**
 * estranged from his mother.** Darrius has had over 35 friends and family members die from drugs and

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Story or play should be complete by today- Wednesday April 26, 2011.** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Write a blog entry on the visit with Darrius Garrett.**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wednesday April 26, 2011 -**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Monday May 2, 2011** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Final draft of short story or play is due today! Turn in your final copy with draft.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Wednesday May 4, 2011** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Complete your Where I Am From lists step one and step two.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Thursday May 5, 2011** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**complete draft of Where I am From poem**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Friday May 6, 2011** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">**Finish your image poem.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Monday May 9, 2011** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Write a list poem.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Tuesday May 10, 2011** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Create a poem from the monologue you wrote in class.** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Your short stories or one act plays are on your wiki. Please review the comments.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Due Thursday May 12, 2011- Write a poem based on one of your journal entries.**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**Tuesday May 17- work on your poetry portfolio**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 30px;">**DUE MAY 20, 2011 FRIDAY- POETRY PORTFOLIOS** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">** No portfolios will be accepted after this date! **

**Due Tuesday May 24, 2011-** Prepare introduction for poem for tape.

**Due Wednesday May 25, 2011-** Come prepared for the field trip- dress appropriately. Bring $5 for the trip.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Thursday May 26, 2011-** journal entries from the field trip are due. A final journal entry reflecting on the entire day is also due today.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Due Tuesday May 31**- Bring a piece of writing to share with the owner of Roses for Autism. Read over the poems from //Dead Poets Society//.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Due Monday June 13- ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The Once and Future You Project

Final Project-

Use Glogster- Glogster Edu Prezi

Creative Writing Crawl Photos: media type="custom" key="9741054"

Favorite Poem Video-media type="custom" key="9741060" media type="custom" key="9751672"

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">The Clinton Land Conservation Trust's newsletter would like to publish poetry by students in the <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 30px;">newsletter. If you have a poem that you will allow me to forward to them, please send it to me. They are looking for pieces about nature.

Journal Prompts:

Creative Writing Journal Prompts Creative Writing Prompts Journal Writing Prompts, Creative Writing Ideas and Exercises Journal Writing Prompt Resources Creative Writing Prompts from Creative Writing Solutions Creative Writing Prompts from Warren Wilson College 25 Creative Writing Prompts from Writing Forward Creative Writing-prompts 501 Writing Prompts- Narrative prompts begin with 254 A Dozen Prompts Printable Writing Journal Topics

365 Daily Picture Prompt

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">Opportunities to Publish Your Work:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">Young Writers Contest- deadline March 15, 2011 TeenInk Magazine- submit your work online [|The Write Source] [|Poetry Submissions] [|Merlyn's Pen]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Other Creative Writing Resources:

Creative Writing Nowwriting lessons and ideas

Poetry sites- Billy Collins- a poem a day for high school students [|Poem in Your Pocket]- POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY IS APRIL 14TH [|Tom Wayman's Poetry] [|Mark Doty's Page] [|Marge Piercy's Page] [|Poem Hunter] [|Famous Poems and Poets] [|The Poems of Emily Dickinson] [|Videos of Favorite Poems] [|A Poetry a Day for High School Students] Dodge Poetry Festival- October 2010 Fooling With Words- Poetry Resources Fooling With Words- The Poets Read- videos