3/19/10 - FR

* CREATIVE WRITING WALKABOUT CONTINUES...*

> > > VOCABULARY WEEK 10 pckt & sentences due today

> > > GEOGRAPHY CW: "VEGETATION" due today

I. SPRING BREAK READING PACKET
- extra credit or make up packet
- optional
- can even be used to make up points
- focused on skill building/reminders for OAKS reading test on return

II.  WRITING BOOKLET OVERVIEW
- review requirements for creative writing booklet
- write out plan for pages and design on back of instructions
- discuss "thumbnail" designs for planning a booklet

* Writers on the Hoof Booklets/work due the Friday after Spring Break
* You don't have to work on this over the break, but you could
* There WILL be time during the week to type after testing.  But not tons of time.

III.  WRITERS ON THE HOOF WALKABOUT
* today we head off to Glennhaven Park and experience writing outdoors
* afterwards we'll go to Annie's Donuts

1st writing session: get back into observation mode
DESCRIBE THIS MOMENT,THIS DAY IN THE PARK (10-15 min)
"It was a nice day..."  Prose form.  Not poetry, although if you must you must.
Look around and write down details of the park at this moment from your perspective.
Try to include details that include all the senses - sound, touch, sight, colors, shapes, objects, temperature, etc.  (you can leave taste out  -- you're not tasting anything on this one, ok?)

2nd writing session: seeing things through the eyes of something else

PERSONIFICATION (20-25 min)

In the comic strip, Peanuts, Charlie Brown always pined for his true love, the little red-haired girl.  He would often stand by his school building on weekends and talk about not having courage or imagining what he could do to say hello to this girl.  Although Charlie Brown never heard it, the school building was often shown giving him advice or responding to him in thought balloons.  Choose something you see around you  - a building, an insect or animal, a wrapper, a shoe under the bush – anything.  Give this object a personality, hopes, dreams, thoughts, an attitude.  Write from the perspective of this object.  What is it thinking?  What does it want?  This is an internal monologue writing activity.

[Focus on VOICE, putting an appropriate voice to something outside of you;  looking at the world through the eyes of something else.]