Welcome to SOTA and Creative Writing 7/

AGENDA:

1. Welcome/Seating/Introductions--Name/Major

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

a. Write your major underneath your name on folder
b. Sign on to computer: Your ID number and your birthday!
MM/DD/XXXX
c. Go to the Class BLOG
CW7sota.blogspot.com
Click it blue in the star to bookmark


2. Sign-in:  Google classroom (hw9qx3)

3. 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.

As we begin to create writing

Use Times New Roman font  12 pt.

Ask permission to print

USE MLA HEADING:

Your name

Teacher name

CW7

Date/Assignment

Write shortcuts on folder:

4. Discuss;

EQ: Why is Art important? Why are you at SOTA?  Why do you want to pursue your art major?

Student reads:
"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

5.  Marshmallow exercise

Don’t Eat the Marshmallows !

Are you a Marshmallow Eater 

Or 

A Marshmallow Resister? 

Show students: Joachim de Posada: Don't eat the marshmallow! This is a very engaging 6 minute TED video about the importance of self-regulation and delayed gratification.  Students of all ages find this video amusing.  Here is the link: 

http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_ marshmallow_yet.html 

https://stosselintheclassroom.org/videos/delayed_gratification/

Complete class discussion and worksheet after watching the video 

Name______________________ 

1. Are you a marshmallow eater or a marshmallow resister?   

2. Are you in the majority or minority of the population? 

3. What are the advantages of being a marshmallow resister? 

4. What are the disadvantages of being a marshmallow eater? 

5. What can a person do to change from being a marshmallow eater to a marshmallow resister? 

6. How do these videos affect you and how you feel about SOTA's cell policy?

Write about a time you had to wait until you got something you wanted badly.

Was it worth the wait?  Were you gratified when you received it?