Love poems, too!

We wrote love poems (see prompts and rules below). We also went to the computer lab and typed up our love story and love poem. I f you did not have a chance to finish, please bring your completed poem and story in on Monday-- thanks!
Mrs. E

Love Story and Poem Prompts

Time for Love!

Lesson from Wednesday, Feb 17th: Love Stories!  Love story prompts!

Moody stuff!

Here is the assignment we did on Friday, February 12th:
Moody Poetry!
Have a great weekend, and I will see you next Wednesday!
Mrs. E

Newest Stuff!

Revision Without Tears Lesson and Assignment
This week we wrote to some prompts-- choose one and write for 20 minutes, at least, if you missed all of that.  Bring your writing in and put it in your folder in class.
We also turned in our "metaphor moves" poems. Please look at the directions from the last post and also check out the examples we looked at in class.
Finally, we started looking at plot structure-- its more than rising action and climax! Please get the notes from someone who was here.
Elements you must learn:
exposition
inciting incident
DESIRE
complication
conflict
climax
resolution
new normal

Coming up on Friday: love poetry and love stories-- of course!

NEW SEMESTER-- NEW CLASS!

Welcome to Creative Writing Class! Here we will exercise our creativity and hoe our writing skills and enjoy creating poetry and stories and non-fiction and finish it off with writing and publishing a book--awesome!
Please remember to get a folder with "clasps" in it for your writing folder in calss and to put some paper in there.
Here is what you missed if you were not here at some point this week:
Feb 1 and 3
Feb 5
REvision Lesson
Metaphor Moves

Projects done!

This week we are working on an author bio and blurb for our books-- you know, that stuff written on the flaps of a new book.  If you did the alternate final-- you can still write and author bio and a blurb for the story you will feature on your final.

Here are examples of each genre and the directions you need to complete yours: Author Bio and Blub

We also worked on our last big assignment for the year: Ekphrastic Fantastic!
Here are the examples, instructions and samples--thanks!
Mrs. E

Almost Home!

Final Projects should be off to the publisher by this week-- yes! E-books and print books alike need to be ordered by now.
Alternative Final: If your book is not going to happen, please get started on this assignment for your final Exam:
Creative Writing Final Packet