Due Date Shifts

1- We are definitely going to the library computers on Monday, October 1st, so be sure you have a full draft of your story then.  We will type it up:
12pt- Times New Roman, 1" margins, DOUBLE SPACED.
 2- I will get your poems (synesthesia--the taste of music) back to you for editing on Tuesday-- final copies read in class on Thursday and Friday. YES!
3- You Dialectical Journals are due on Friday, October 5th.
Have a great fall-- (mini Diction lesson:  that "fall" has double meaning AND is a literary allusion to a nursery rhyme--oh, yeah!)
Mrs. Eddy

Starting our first Short Story--YES!

Here is how we got going in class: Short Story Prompt

Synesthesia Poem

WE spent a lot of time Thursday and friday working on a first draft of a poem-- it was due by the end of the period Friday-- Here is a link to the assignment/prompt.
The other thing we worked on is our first Dialectical Journal Entry.  Please have two completed by Monday.
Have an excellent weekend--Write on!
Mrs. E

Good Writers Read (and read, and read)!

Here is what we have been doing as far as searching for some excellent stuff to read:
Novel Evaluation Assignment: Due September 18th
Check out your choice of book: September 19th
Keep a Dialectic Journal for the first 100 pages of your book: Due October 5th

First Poem!

We have been working on several things:
1-Diction
2-Narrative POV (point of view)
3- Imagery through the use of metaphor.
Here is a link to the directions for poem that we turned in today-- Moody Poem
Here is a link to the full course syllabus-- Creative Writing 2012-13
Happy writing!
Mrs. E