Assignment #1 and #2 Heart Map---Personal Narrative

First Week Writing Prompts

AGENDA:

Assignment #1. Finish working on your heart map

Assignment #2. Choose something from your heart map to write about or choose something from the list below

1 pg.

12 pt. font. double-spaced, Times New Roman

Use MLA (Modern Language Association) heading as follows:

Your name

Ms. Gamzon

CW7

Date

Assignment #

First Week Writing Prompts

Here are some questions to help you with your descriptive writing.

1. What was the best thing that happened at school today? (What was the worst thing that happened at school today?)

2. Tell me something that made you laugh today.

3. If you could choose, who would you like to sit by in class? (Who would you NOT want to sit by in class? Why?)

4. Where is the coolest place at the school?

5. Tell me a weird word that you heard today. (Or something weird that someone said.)

6. If I called your teacher tonight, what would she tell me about you?

7. How did you help somebody today?

8. How did somebody help you today?

9. Tell me one thing that you learned today.

10. When were you the happiest today?

11. When were you bored today?

12. If an alien spaceship came to your class and beamed someone up, who would you want them to take?

14. Tell me something good that happened today.

15. What word did your teacher say most today?

16. What do you think you should do/learn more of at school?

17. What do you think you should do/learn less of at school?

18. Who in your class do you think you could be nicer to?

20. Who is the funniest person in your class? Why is he/she so funny?

21. What was your favorite part of lunch?

22. If you got to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you do?

Welcome to SOTA and Creative Writing 7

Welcome to SOTA and Creative Writing 7/

AGENDA:

1. Welcome/

Introductions/

Course Criteria/

Google classroom (hw9qx3)

2. Discuss;

Why Art?

"By awakening our imagination, art intensifies and complements our ownexperience. 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

https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/positive-class-culture-nea

Assignment #14 ---Adaptation for the Stage

Adapt a folktale, fairy tale or story for the stage:

https://www.playscripts.com/blog/2011/09/adapt-or-perish-five-things-to-consider-before-starting-an-adaptation/

https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Play-Based-on-a-Book

http://www.caleb-lewis.com/on-adapting-for-the-stage/