Assignment #6--Photos as a writing prompt

Assignment #6

AGENDA:

Let's use photography prompts for writing a short story.

Find a photograph you like and write a story using character, setting, plot, conflict, and theme!

Websites that have interesting photography prompts.

Go to http://writingfix.com/classroom_tools/picture_prompts.htm

https://writeshop.com/creative-writing-photo-prompts-imagination/

https://www.slideshare.net/beckerl1/pictures-for-writing-prompts

https://www.pinterest.com/tomiadeyemiYA/picture-prompts/

EXTRA CREDIT:

https://www.writingforward.com/writing-prompts/creative-writing-prompts/25-creative-writing-prompts

Extra Credit #1 FEAR

Extended Writing Prompts

Write a Letter to Fear: Using a more straight-forward approach, task students with writing a letter to their fears. Have them personify fear- what does their fear look like? The sound of his/her voice? What clothing does fear wear? What crowd does fear run with? Does fear get along with his/her parents? Now that fear is a person, address fear by name- what do you need to tell fear?

Bravery Poem: Using the five senses task students with creating a sensory poem illustrating their courage. Use the refrain:

My bravery looks like
My bravery smells like
My bravery tastes like
My bravery feels like
My bravery sounds like

Assignment 3, 4, 5 Where I'm From Poem and Video Where I'm From/

Where I'm From/ George Ella Lyon

AGENDA:

1. Review:

Assignment #1---MLA Heading on paper, 12 pt. Times Roman font  Writing Territories List

Assignment #2--From your list, write about one of your SPECIFIC Writing Territories ideas (at least one page double-spaced)

Print out Assignments 1 and 2 today and put in your folder

2. Begin working on "Where I'm From" poems which we will turn into a movies next week with Moviemaker by adding images and music.

FILL OUT THE TEMPLATE!

http://freeology.com/worksheet-creator/poetry/i-am-from-poem/

Look over Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG3iP08HKZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0bHaFsPx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVryvxLTIyU 

2. Show video of original poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdnHl_yW1dQ 

3. HANDOUT: Where I'm From template--Write your own "Where I'm From" poem in a Word or Google Doc using the model and the template

Sample Writing Territory List

Writing Territories Sample

FAMILY

A. Family Members

• Mom
• Dad
• Nathan
• Jonathan

B. Family Relationships

• Mom and Dad’s divorce
• Two older brothers: Nathan and Jonathan (snowball fights, teased me about boys)
• Dad’s remarriage to Eileen (new house, new family)
• Relationships with Dad, Mom

C. Family Illnesses/Accidents

• Mom in car when it was totaled
• Mom’s cancer

D. Family Memories

• Trips to Dallas to see Grandparents
• Trip to Philadelphia to see an uncle and aunt
• Trips to the Outer Banks

PETS

A. Types

• Cats
• Fish
• Dogs
• Ferrets
• Doves
• Cordon bleu finches
• Snake

B. Individuals and their stories

• Snowball (sickness)
• Squirmy (catching frogs in the rain)
• Ester and Rebecca (digging holes on the beach)
• Lady (giving her away)

MIDDLE SCHOOL MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES

• Izzy, Willy Nilly
• Kevin Howell (first like)
• My writing
• Dead pets (fish)
• Being picked on (religious reasons)
• Doing well in the school fund raiser

HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES

• Being in three high schools in two years
• Boyfriends
• Sports (basketball and soccer-goals)

COLLEGE MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES

• Scholarship and trips
• Friends and hanging out

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

• Sports (soccer, ultimate Frisbee)
• Bouldering and Rock Climbing
• Singing
• Drama
• Church

RELIGION AND/OR RELIGIOUS RELATED EXPERIENCES

• Drama Tours every Spring Break during college
• When I became a Christian

Assignment #1 Making Lists/Assignment #2 Nonfiction

AGENDA:

Use 12 pt. font  Times New Roman

MLA Heading (in left hand corner):

Your name

Teacher name

Course name (CW7)

Assignment/Date

Open a word document.  Put an MLA heading on top. Create a full page of YOUR Writing Territories lists.  Save your document.

Assignment #1:  Writing Territories/Making Lists for Writing Topics

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

In Collecting Your Writing Territories, Consider . . .and Make Lists of Ideas.  Brainstorm what you can write about.  Be specific.

memories: early, earlier, and recent                                favorites, now and then

obsessions                                                                    pets, now and then

idiosyncrasies                                                               teachers, now and then

problems                                                                      places: school, camp, trips, times away with friends and relatives

dreams                                                                         hobbies

itches                                                                            sports

understandings                                                              music

confusions                                                                    games

passions                                                                       books

sorrows                                                                        poems

risks                                                                             songs

accomplishments                                                           movies

fears                                                                             writers and artists

worries                                                                         food

fantasies                                                                       pet peeves

family, close and distant                                                beloved things-objects and possessions, now and then

friends, now and then                                                    all the loves of your life

fads

                                                       Adapted from Lessons That Change Writers by Nancie Atwell

Other ideas:

http://smoran.ednet.ns.ca/writing/writing_territories.htm

Welcome to CW7

AGENDA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M5hs6ahcKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH3akqBwYfo 

"By awakening our imagination, art intensifies and complements our own experience. Art represents people, cultures, values, and perspectives on living, but it does much more. While bringing us pleasure, art teaches us. While reading or contemplating a painting our minds go elsewhere. We are taken on a journey into a world where form and meaning are intertwined.

Form matters and gives pleasure. How a work of art is organized — its technique, its verbal or visual texture, its way of telling — gives pleasure. So does the inextricable relation between form and content. The form of imaginative art, as well as the form of well-written non-fiction, organizes the mess (if not the chaos) of personal life as well as that of external events. Form not only organizes and controls art but also other bodies of knowledge within the humanities. Form imposes structure that our own lives — as we move from moment to moment through time — may lack.

Narrative — sequential telling — imposes form as it orders and gives shape. Indeed, in the sense that each of us is continually giving shape to the stories we tell to and about ourselves, there is continuity between what we read and see and our own lives. Put another way, what we read teaches us to find narratives within our own lives and hence helps us make sense of who we are. Our seeing shapes and patterns in stories and other kinds of art helps give interpretive order — in the form of a narrative that we understand — to our lives. We live in our narratives, our discourse, about our actions, thought, and feelings.

While there is always a gulf between imagined worlds and real ones, does not the continuity between reading lives and reading texts depend on our understanding reading as a means of sharpening our perceptions and deepen our insights about ourselves? Reading is a process of cognition that depends on actively organizing the phenomena of language both in the moment of perception and in the fuller understanding that develops retrospectively."

Daniel Schwartz, Huffington Post

Classroom expectations

1) Treat others as you would like to be treated.  RESPECT ALL NOUNS (People, objects, ideas)

2) Respect other people and their property (e.g., no hitting, no stealing).

3) Laugh with anyone, but laugh at no one.

4) Be responsible for your own learning.

5) Come to class and hand in assignments on time.

6) Do not disturb people who are working.

In addition:

No food or drink in classroom or computer lab.

No cell phones.

Use Times New Roman font  12 pt.
Ask permission to print

Open a Google Doc or Word Doc
Start with a MLA HEADING (in upper left hand corner)
Your name
Teacher name
Course: CW7
Date:
Assignment