Creative Writing- assignments for wk4-5 due Fri 2/24

Week: 4-5

Date Range:(2/13-2/24)

Creative Writing Assignment Sheet

Date	Assignment	Pgs?	Point Value	Points Earned	Comments
2/13	Do Now: What makes a good story?	¼-1/3	5
2/13	I could tell you about… list	1/2p-1p	10
2/13	HW: I could tell you about… detail on one	1/2p-1p	10
2/14	Do Now: Freewrite (I Could Tell you about-2, Valentine’s Day, unlikely romance)	1/2p-1p	10
2/14	Class Story (Bob&Kim zombie apocalypse OR John& Diana car accident) and finish for HW	1p	20
2/15  2/16	Piano Man	1/2p-1p	10
2/15 2/16	Short Story Grab Bag 1	1/2p	10
2/15 2/16	Short Story Grab Bag 2	½ p	10
2/15 2/16	HW: continue a story from this week (3p total)	Additl 2p (+/-)	40
2/21	Picture Freewrites	1p	20
2/21	Combine and extend into story	Additl 1 p	20
2/22 2/23	Do Now: Freewrite (pic, I cried when it happened…, what makes a story complete?)	1/2p	10
2/22	A good story is…	1/4p	5
2/22 2/23	Story select- Top 3	¼ p	5
2/22 2/23	Story Select- Top Choice and questions about story	1/2p-1p	15
Due 2/24	Complete Short story-pref. typed	3-5p (at least 2 additl pgs- more if under pg limit)	60
	TOTAL	13 pg min	260

CW: lesson plan & HW for 2/23-2/24

Due now: story from picture freewrites

Do now: FREEWRITE

Below are a few suggestions:

*What does a story need to be complete?

*Use this as a starting line and go from there… “I cried when it happened, but I can’t say I was surprised when…”

*Use this picture:

2. Share out (freewrite or part of last night’s stories)

3.(Write for 5 min) What makes a good story?

A good story is…

4.Look through the story starters you’ve done in the last 2 weeks (I could tell you about, Diana/John story, Story Grab bag exercises, Piano Man, Picture freewrites, today’s freewrite) pick up to 3 you have written that you think might make a good story

5.In your tables or in groups of 2-4 people – share your possible idea for a story

6. Choose a story idea you started this week that you want to finish(you can continue where you left off)

***Your “complete” story should be 3-5pgs***

Once you’ve chosen, answer the following (these can change as you write your story):

*Setting (time/place):

*Characters:

*Situation/ circumstance:

*1-2 sentence summary- what is your story about?

*What is the “inciting incident”?

*What is the main source of conflict?

* What do you think the climax will be?

* How do you think will it end? How will the story be resolved?

***How much do you have written so far?***

7. Share out

8. Start writing

HW: Continue story (have at least 2-3pgs written in addition)

Friday 2/24

Today is a work day. Please finish your story, have it typed or neatly organized and handwritten. Remember it must be 3-5 p (at least 2 in addition to what was written previously). You can also use this time to make-up any assignments missed – see the assignment sheet. Everything will be due at the end of class.

You should have a MINIMIUM of 13pgs.

Creative Writing 2-21-12

HW due Wed/Thurs
put all your writes from today into one story between 1-2 pgs long
Lesson Plan fr. 2/21/12
Due now:3 p story

1. Picture Freewrites

(5-10 min, 1/4- 1/2pg on each )

English 9 HW

HW: Using Elizabethan grammar, commonly used words and Shakespearean insults; write 10 lines in Elizabethan english

2/14 Creative Writing 5th per HW

Finish the story about John and Diana started in class today. feel free to change, delete, or add to the info given. You may also take just a fraction of it and veer into another direction. Regardless about what direction you go in, be ready with at least 1 page of your story by next class.

Time: 1990’s, Summertime

Setting: Rotten Robbie’s

Character:

Boy: sociopath, smart but evil, unattractive- yellow stains on teeth, strong, bad skin, smells like marijuana and money, mixed, Italian-Tongan-Irish-Black, missing an eye and a leg; unemployed gynecologist; John Doe Jr.

Girl:, body like Beyonce, blind, face like hella pretty Mick Jagger, French, with some messed up teeth, missing 2 teeth and bad breath, hates children, cynical, high school dropout, hella rich, 6’4”; “Dirty” Diana Billie Jean-Pi

John is getting gas at Rotten Robbie’s when he accidentally hits Diana with his car.

   “Holy shit!” John said as he backed up and heard Diana scream.

Creative Writing HW 4th per

Finish the story about Kim and Bob started in class below. Feel free to add, delete, or change parts or even veer off on another direction if so inspired. Regardles of which way you go you must have at least one full page written by Thursday.

Time:

Valentine’s Day

Place:

In an abandoned Safeway in the hood

Characters:

Boy-sadistic, charming, pimp, white, 25, was the manager at the Safeway àBabakulu “Bob” Sagat

Girl- Asian immigrant, works at Red Robin as a waitress, also a high class whore, 19, Chabot, likes horses, recently had a nervous breakdown, depressed, flirtatious, hard-workingàKim Apple Possible

Circumstance: Zombie apocalypse trapped in the Safeway

   She’d been here before, it all looked familiar, but different. The shelves were strewn every which way, but every so often there would be one full of food, a dusty box of Pop-Tarts here, cans of Chef Boyardee there, and every now and then she’d be lucky to find Twinkies or box of white Cheddar Cheez-its, she loved those things.

   The lights flickered and every so often she heard a scuffling. Rats? Maybe, she wasn’t sure. She wasn’t even sure how she’d gotten there.

   She’d been heading back from class at Chabot, when Bob had called her and said he had a client for her. She was hesitant to meet him because she had stopped working for Bob long ago, when she realized what cruel piece of shit prick he really was. But for some reason, she’d agreed, there was a desperation in his voice and the soft spot she had for her old friend had made her weak. Or maybe that’s just the kind of mood she was in, she’d been a wreck lately, with school and work and the death of Chocolate, her horse. It had been all her fault, she should’ve given the horse up. She knew she couldn’t take care of him in the in law apartment she was renting in the Oakland hills and when the owners of the house returned from Narnia, a new fancy resort in the Caribbean, they were none too happy to see Chocoalte eating their rosebushes and daffodils. Chocolate had been sent away last month, and just yesterday, she’d gotten a call that Chocolate was dead. Her day couldn’t have been worse…

CW - due Friday 2/10

WEEKLY WRITE ASSIGNMENTS:

M 2/6 Do Now: Freewrite

2/6 HW: List of Conflicts

Tu 2/7 Do Now: Elaborate on Conflict for memoir

2/7 HW: Plot Outline of memoir, including the inciting incident, climax, and resolution àHow will you build conflict?

 W 2/8 Do Now: Description of one aspect of memoir

2/8 Assignment: 5 examples of description in The Liar’s club excerpt and what’s being described

TOTAL: 3 pgs

2/8 HW: memoir of conflict (graded on plot structure and description) minimum of 2 pgs

Total pages: 5 (50 pts)

Memoir grade (20 points)

Eng 9 lesson plan and HW

2/7/12  Tuesday

1. Due Now- None  /Do Now- 20 min total

1. Look up to the board and find your new seats, some have been shifted since last class (the ones in bold have been moved) à3 min

2. Once seated, grab a copy of the “Shakespeare’s Commonly Used Words” handout and your books à2 min

3. Choose 5 lines from Act 1, Scene 1, and “translate” them into contemporary speech à 10 min

4.Now, write 5 lines of your own about yourself or something that happened to you recently in contemporary speech In the next activity you will have another student translate your lines à 5 min

2. Pair up w/ someone at your table (or form a group of 3) and switch lines – Translate it à 10 min

(We will share these out)

3. Share out à5 min

4.Review commonly used words à5 min

HW: Read I.ii

Study Guide- Act 1, Scene 2 (I.ii)

CW HW due wed/thur

List the events of your memoir (on a conflict ou've experienced)

Identify the inciting incident, climax, and resolution.

How will you build tension, which parts will you skip through, which will you focus on. How will you increase intensity to build tension?

CW: lecture notes and hw from yesterday

2-6-12

Due now: none (late work or make-up workàshow to Miss D and then attach to your packet)

1. Do now:

[ ½ pg 10 min; Ipods okay]

Freewrite (or write on a suggested topic below)

·       Describe a place you know well and have visited often

·       If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be? Describe that place in detail.

·       Imagine a fantasy world. Describe it in detail

2. Review Key Terms

Setting-

where and when the story takes place

Mood-

the emotion or state of mind that the reader feels

Tone-

emotion the state of mind or attitude the author has towards the subject

Character-

person (people) in the story

Characterization- how you get to know a character (speech, actions, reactions of other characters, explicit info from narrator, plot, setting, relationships)

Plot-

the action in the story (what happens in the story on the surface); how the conflict gets complicated or resolved

Inciting incident-

the event that sets up the story, gets action in motion, introduces problem [something at stake for the character]

Climax-

the turning point in the story; the highest point of action

Resolution-

the problem is “solved”; things even out, come together

Conflict-

problem(s) in the story that drive the action

         

Internal Conflict (person vs. self)

- problem is within the character

 (ie. Depression, grief, addiction, dealing with past)

         

External Conflict

-problem outside the character

Types of External Conflict

Person vs. person- fight w/ friend

Person vs. society- discrimination

Person vs. nature – surviving in the wild, health

Person vs. supernatural – witch, ghost, monster

Person vs. circumstance/ fate- luck

Person vs. machine- person vs. technology

computer

HW

Brainstorm: List conflicts you have in your life

Explain  or describe one of them

1/2 pg –1pg ( 20 min)

2/7/12

(4^th period)

1. Move into your new seats

2. Once seated,

DUE NOW: Brainstorm and description of conflicts 1/2p-1p

DO NOW:

1. Send one person from your table to grab your group’s folders

2. Put your HW from last night on your desk to be stamped

          3. What conflict do you think you will write this week’s memoir about? What happened in this conflict? Who was involved (who are your “characters”)? What was important or meaningful or interesting about this conflict?

3. Finish reading the excerpt from Warriors Don’t Cry

4. Discuss plot structure and conflict

How does the author build tension and suspense?

What is the inciting incident? The climax? The resolution?

Tension

Crowds (heard)

Neighbors à look mean

Crowds—traffic

Park far away (vulnerable)

Hear crowds

National guardsmen (serious)

See the crowds

Commotion in the middle

Crowd surrounds Elizabeth

Hostility towards Elizabeth

Cheering from tormentors

Someone in the crowd notices them

Narrator and mother are in danger

Following them

Get away

Followed so closely

Separation

To yell  for help

Getting closer to car

Getting more tired

Mother abandons shoes

Melba almost hit

Melba gets to the car

Mother struggling

Mother gets in the car

They’re leaving

They start attacking the car, throw a brick

They get away

5. Plot out the events in your conflict. Just write what happened (don’t worry about the details yet.

HW: look back at your conflict

What would be the inciting incident? (conflict)

The climax?

The resolution?

Create a plot outline for your story of conflict

(How will you build tension?)