Photos As Writing Prompts

AGENDA:

Using photos as writing prompts for a short story:

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

https://plus.google.com/+Photowritingprompts1

Extra credit creative writing prompts

http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

Ekphrastic Poetry

AGENDA:

EQ: What is ekphrastic poetry

Ekphrasis is writing about any art form, but in its modern usage, ekphrasis generally refers to poetry that reflects on visual art, and most often painting. In my classroom, I often choose one or two artists for an in-depth study. Once my students are experts about the artists, they each choose a meaningful piece of work to inspire a poem. 
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2016/04/ekphrasis-poetry-about-art
http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/Ekphrastic_Poetry_Lesson.pdf

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/classicscene.html

The Red Wheelbarrow

William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

ACTIVITY:

Students select a postcard or artwork

Where I'm From/ George Ella Lyon poem

If you have finished writing your fiction/nonfiction piece from Writing Territories, you may begin this poem.

AGENDA:

1. Work on "Where I'm From" poems which we will turn into a movie on Tuesday using Moviemaker by adding images and music.

http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm
http://freeology.com/wp-content/files/iamfrompoem.pdf
Look over Examples:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRfoqB2PhQ
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

Writing Territories and PROSE

AGENDA:

Continue developing your writing territories.

WRITING:
Select one topic from your writing territories and write a PROSE piece about it.

If you write truthfully, you are writing NONFICTION.

If you make up a story based on your writing territory, you are writing FICTION.


Four primary genres:

FICTION
NONFICTION
POETRY
DRAMA

Writing Territories (cont.) Gathering Ideas

AGENDA:

http://digisandbox.pbworks.com/w/page/28517758/Writing%20Territories%20-%20Gathering%20Ideas

Show prezi:

https://prezi.com/dw1p0c_uv_44/writing-territories/ 

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

Writing Territories

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.  Save your document.

Writing Territories

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