Great work today. I enjoyed reading your first literary paragraphs and offering a few ideas to improve.
If you have been asked to re-submit your paragraph, please hand it to me on Thursday.
We created blue writing portfolios to keep track of the changes you are making in your writing, your spelling demons' page, your independent corrections sheet, etc. If you were absent, please set up your portfolio file in class next day.
Shelfari responses for your first book are due Oct. 16. Please ensure that they are posted in the 10A group.
Recitation performances are due Oct. 18th. Remember to come to the Copeland Theatre Oct. 14th at lunch and then we'll stay there for period 4 for the seminar with Slam Poetry Champion Dave Morris.
Homework:
We'll go over your fantastic charts on Orpheus next day.
Due: The 500 word creative writing practice. Create a scene with two characters who have a "lame" conflict on the surface but it is obvious that there are deeper regrets or motivations under the surface. Use all of the techniques we've been learning in your scene:
dialogue, interior monologue, revealing characters indirectily: symbols, descriptions of setting, objects, weather, diction, action and what other characters say or how other characters react to your character.
Have the characters pull in to a restaurant, park, town, street of some kind so that descriptions of the setting can heighten our understanding of the characters.
Look forward to hearing what you create.
Double space it. Put it on a separate piece of paper outside of your journal. You may type it if you like.
