05.28 - Creative Writing Tips

We had half an hour of class today due to an assembly.
We started class with everyone responding to the following writing prompt in their writer's journals:

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Next, I handed out a tip sheet for creative writing. We reviewed the various tips and used the phone-cat-trunk writing prompt as a piece to revise and practice some of these tips. After making these revisions, people would stop to share their writing with someone nearby.

Tomorrow we will look at using these creative writing tips to revise the writing we did on chapter eleven in The Hunger Games.

Handouts:
Creative Writing Tips

Hunger Games Reading Schedule (includes reading logs)
Reading Logs Folder (Google Drive folder with all reading logs)
If I photocopied your own set of characteristics and you need an extra copy, come check in with me.

Homework:

If you did not do so in class, finish responding to the "Hunger Games - Chapter 11" writing prompt.

Read to page 290 in The Hunger Games.

Complete a reading log on Katniss OR Peeta for chapters 18-20.
(For a 100, note characteristics for both Katniss and Peeta and then, in your discussion compare and contrast them in these chapters).

Complete any unfinished assignments.

Revise any assignments scoring below a 92.

 

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