Lesson One
1. Complete Classmate interview paragraph.
2. Share to [email protected] when complete as I would like to put on display
3. Complete All About Me Sheet
2. Share to [email protected] when complete as I would like to put on display
3. Complete All About Me Sheet
Lesson Two
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1. Watch the movie trailers below and decide which movie you are interested in.
Indian Horse: (more serious)
Or
Smoke Signals (humorous)
2. Fill out the Literary Terms Sheet with an example of each term. I will collect this and we will use it when we are discussing our any novel or short story.
Indian Horse: (more serious)
Or
Smoke Signals (humorous)
2. Fill out the Literary Terms Sheet with an example of each term. I will collect this and we will use it when we are discussing our any novel or short story.
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Lesson Three
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1.Find ONE artifact that represents who you are and/or a group that you belong to. An artifact is an physical object. It could be one of the following:
A) Something that represents you as an individual
B) Something that represents the family you belong to
C) Something that represents the peer group you belong to
D) Something that represents your cultural identity.
Once you have picked your artifact, please write a small paragraph (which you will hand in) explaining how it represents you. See the examples I provided
If you can't bring in the actual object, take a picture of it instead.
2. Research ten interesting facts about the culture or Heritage (for example, German, Italian, Japanese, Inuit etc), you belong to. Write them down (or type them). This will be used for a future (next week) presentation in class.
A) Something that represents you as an individual
B) Something that represents the family you belong to
C) Something that represents the peer group you belong to
D) Something that represents your cultural identity.
Once you have picked your artifact, please write a small paragraph (which you will hand in) explaining how it represents you. See the examples I provided
If you can't bring in the actual object, take a picture of it instead.
2. Research ten interesting facts about the culture or Heritage (for example, German, Italian, Japanese, Inuit etc), you belong to. Write them down (or type them). This will be used for a future (next week) presentation in class.
Lesson Four
1. Begin working on your presentation for the multicultural Banquet. This could mean starting a PowerPoint, or a video or looking for video etc. We will also work on it in class tomorrow.
Day 1 Banquet: Friday February 19
Day 2: Monday February 22
2. Think of a story in your life that “controls who [you] are”, in other words a story from your life that changed you life in some small or large way, or made you who you are.
3. Talk to a family member about a story in their life that made them who they are or changed their life.
Be prepared to share these stories in class tomorrow (either sharing with a peer or a freewrite).
Day 1 Banquet: Friday February 19
Day 2: Monday February 22
2. Think of a story in your life that “controls who [you] are”, in other words a story from your life that changed you life in some small or large way, or made you who you are.
3. Talk to a family member about a story in their life that made them who they are or changed their life.
Be prepared to share these stories in class tomorrow (either sharing with a peer or a freewrite).
Lesson Five
1. Finish up your banquet project. Day one due Friday February 19, day 2 Monday February 22
2. Find a picture of yourself doing something you enjoy doing out side (or enjoy about being outside). Have it handy on your phone for next day. If it is not on your phone, you could take a picture of it. Have it easily accessible to you.
2. Find a picture of yourself doing something you enjoy doing out side (or enjoy about being outside). Have it handy on your phone for next day. If it is not on your phone, you could take a picture of it. Have it easily accessible to you.
Lesson six
1. Finish your Thomas king paragraph
2. Finish up your Multicultural Banquet Project.
Day 1 Due: Friday February 19
Day 2 due: Monday February 22
2. Finish up your Multicultural Banquet Project.
Day 1 Due: Friday February 19
Day 2 due: Monday February 22
Lesson Seven
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1. Make sure your Thomas King Paragraph is complete as that is due in class tomorrow (as well as the assignment below).
2. One of the most important parts of a piece of creative writing is the beginning. It is an important first impression that can make your reader continue, or put your story down.
3. Pick 3 of the following 6 movie clips to show you how movies engage their viewer in the first minutes of the film. On your sheet, indicate all the ways the movie uses by writing the initials of the film beside the tactic. Use DK for The Dark Knight, UB for Undercover Brother, H for Halloween, CR for Casino Royale, WEGG for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, LK for Lion King
How do they meet sections from the list of effective beginnings?
For example, Uses lots of action: H, DK, C, S, CR
List
-show, don’t tell (ie show the character in action so the viewer/reader has to infer)
-begin in the middle of the action, not at the literal beginning of the story, you can fill in details as you go along
-withhold important details to make your reader want to read on (Create supense
-ask a question
-say something unusual
-Introduce the characters
-Use humour.
-start with a metaphor or simile or analogy
-start with a striking or controversial statement
-Set the atmosphere by describing the setting
-create mood/tone
3. Here are some examples of engaging first sentences of famous novels
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Something unusual 1984 by George Orwell
"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Create suspense
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. " Create mood/tone
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Literary device Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
"Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago." Create suspense Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
“I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for
awhile, and that’s the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth is how Freak would say it…” Something unusual Philbrick, Rodman. Freak the Mighty.
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
Start in the middle of the action Paul Auster, City of Glass
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830) Setting describe in detail
4. Here is how you take a boring beginning and make it more interesting.
EXAMPLE:
1. I heard my neighbor through the wall. (Dry and uninteresting.)
2. The neighbor behind us practiced scream therapy in his shower almost every day. (The second sentence catches the reader's attention. Who is this guy who goes in his shower every day and screams? Why does he do that? What, exactly, is "scream therapy"? Let's keep reading...)
The first time I heard him, I stood in the bathroom listening at our shared wall for ten minutes, debating the wisdom of calling the police. It was very different from living in the duplex over middle-aged Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their two young sons in Vancouver. (The rest of the paragraph introduces I and an internal conflict as the protagonist debates a course of action and introduces an intriguing contrast of past and present setting.)
5. Pick a picture below and write the beginning to that story. We will use it in class tomorrow. If you need an example of what this looks like, scroll to the soccer picture at the bottom of this section
Short Story Beginnings Example
It’s not every day that Soccer superstar John Sanderson was kicked in the face with the same velocity and fury of a raging bull mutilating a runner in Pamplona. However, his day didn’t start any better. The kick in the face would serve as a metaphor and physical reminder of the day his wife left him. She’d taken his Porshe, his Mastercard and she pulled the sleek car out of his driveway and out of his life forever. Forever. The words sunk in. “Forever” wafted from his tongue like a light misty fog and then disappeared into the dusty traffic whirling down the street near his palatial manner house. “What worse could happen” he mused, laughing more to slap a band aid on his wounded ego than anything.
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Lesson Eight
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1. Write the story you planned in your five photos yesterday. See examples below if needed. Please include your five photos somewhere in the document.
5 Photo Story Assignment
Task: Write a story based on your 5 photos.
Writing a good story involves many elements. You need to catch your reader’s interest, have interesting characters, craft an intriguing set of events and describe the time and location where everything happens. For a story to truly be valuable there is usually a deeper meaning or message that the reader is given through interacting with the story. For today you are going to work on having fun in crafting your story. Make sure to include:
Length: 300-500 words.
Due: Next Class
Prizes based on:
5 Photo Story Assignment
Task: Write a story based on your 5 photos.
Writing a good story involves many elements. You need to catch your reader’s interest, have interesting characters, craft an intriguing set of events and describe the time and location where everything happens. For a story to truly be valuable there is usually a deeper meaning or message that the reader is given through interacting with the story. For today you are going to work on having fun in crafting your story. Make sure to include:
- Characters of interest
- An interesting plot
- Some description of the setting
- Humour or drama or suspense
Length: 300-500 words.
Due: Next Class
Prizes based on:
- best descriptive passage
- best/most interesting character
- best beginning
- most memorable ending
- most meaningful message
- ??? (if I see something that doesn't fit this list)
Lesson Nine
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1. Choose one of the grocery lists below and fill out in point form all the categories on the "How to create Believable Characters in your Stories.
2. Write a short (approx. 150 word) story about that character when they are going to the grocery store, leaving the store, or when they are there.
3. Read the example below for an example.
4. We will share this in class tomorrow
2. Write a short (approx. 150 word) story about that character when they are going to the grocery store, leaving the store, or when they are there.
3. Read the example below for an example.
4. We will share this in class tomorrow
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Lesson Ten
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1. Finish writing your people watching story.
Criteria
Engaging beginning
Detailed descriptions
Sophisticated word choice
Poetic Devices
Dialogue (if used) is integrated properly
Sentences vary in length and structure
300-500 words (more is fine)
Criteria
Engaging beginning
Detailed descriptions
Sophisticated word choice
Poetic Devices
Dialogue (if used) is integrated properly
Sentences vary in length and structure
300-500 words (more is fine)
Lesson Eleven
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1. Write your personal narrative
Size: 300-500 words minimum (more is fine) multi-paragraph story (meaning don't write just one long paragraph, break up your writing into separate paragraphs).
Criteria:
1. Engaging beginning
2. Sentence variety (sentence size and beginning)
3. Descriptive writing (use language that appeals to your five sense and use at least one poetic device
4. Properly formatted dialogue (if you choose to use dialogue)
5. Memorable ending (bring it back to your beginning and/or explain what you learned)
6. Edited using the editing creative writing sheet
Size: 300-500 words minimum (more is fine) multi-paragraph story (meaning don't write just one long paragraph, break up your writing into separate paragraphs).
Criteria:
1. Engaging beginning
2. Sentence variety (sentence size and beginning)
3. Descriptive writing (use language that appeals to your five sense and use at least one poetic device
4. Properly formatted dialogue (if you choose to use dialogue)
5. Memorable ending (bring it back to your beginning and/or explain what you learned)
6. Edited using the editing creative writing sheet
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