Writing Time - SWT, Loading a Boar, Honest Poems

Hello Beautiful Writers!

Let's write today.  Work at your pace.  Use the computers.  I will issue you a number.
Please feel free to ask for advice and assistance with your work.  You are in control.


1. Sacred Writing Time
2. Amen Ra - "Honest Poem" (another example of what you can choose to do)
3. Review NINE rights
4. Writing/Crafting Time

Link to video - Rudy Francisco - "Honest Poem"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDa4WTZ_58M

HW
1. "Honest Poem" - Typed draft due Friday.
2.  "Loading a Boar" - Response due Friday

EC - Lyrical Exchange Open Mic - EVERY TUESDAY night at Queen Bee's - $5

Prompts:
1.  I thoroughly enjoy ______ and I'll tell you why....
2.  All I know for certain is....
3.  I know it sounds crazy, but.....
4.  It's late on a Saturday night and.....
5.  The first thing I hear when I enter....
6.  The struggle is real...
7.  As I predicted...
8.  I remember these words for some reason....

Drafting your "Honest Poem"

Hello Students!

Welcome back.  Please respond to the prompts below.

1. Sacred Writing Time
2. "Loading A Boar" - Discussion. Purpose.  How does this relate to us?
3. "Honest Poems" - Typed draft due Friday

Link to video - Rudy Francisco - "Honest Poem"

HW
1. "Honest Poem" - Typed draft due Friday.
2.  "Loading a Boar" - Response
EC - Lyrical Exchange Open Mic - EVERY TUESDAY night at Queen Bee's - $5

Prompts:
1.  It was not one of my favorite sensations....
2.  We paused and listened...
3.  I was going to try and defend myself, but....
4.  I can't recall if I went looking for it or if I just found it, but....
5.  I could feel the panic rising in me again...
6.  I reached out blindly, grabbing...
7.  When everybody had gone, it was just me and....
8.  There are a million reasons why....

WW - Day #2

Hello Students!

Welcome back.  Please respond to the prompts below.

1. Sacred Writing Time
2. Book Checkout
3. Activity: What is Education?
* Read the statements, participate in the activity, share, complete your writing task.

This is your first opportunity. Please make your best impression.

For tomorrow you will need:
* What Is Education - Quote Response
* Writers Notebook
* Folder/Binder to keep your handouts
* Pens/Pencils/Highlighter

Prompts:
1.  Let me tell you about yesterday....
2.  If I'm being honest...
3.  I sat in a booth at....
4.  When I tell people that....
5.  It doesn't matter.  The lullabies are for me.
6.  I didn't discover anything new about myself, however...
7.  I've never,,,,
8.  As a teenager, nothing about me is.....

ARE YOU READY?

   "YOU'VE HEARD THE STORIES....ARE YOU READY FOR THE EXPERIENCE?!!!"

                                    WELCOME TO THE WRITERS WORKSHOP! 
                                          HOSTED BY: DARREN SAMAKOSKY
                                                 NOW WRITING IN ROOM 854

This class will be completely different than anything you have ever attended.  To succeed - you must suspend your preconceived notions of what is allowed in a classroom and get into the spirit of helping to create an outrageously fun, entertaining, and participatory experience for everyone!

We start - WRITE now.

1. Choose one of the awesome prompts below.  You have TWENTY minutes to play, experiment, explore, create, write something that represents YOU in some way.  You have complete creative license to write anything you want as long as it is classroom appropriate.

Prompts:

* Things are going to change, I can feel it.
* When I think back on my high school experience...
* This is how I want to remember my senior year
* My TWELVE best traits/characteristics...
* I'm the kind of writer that...
* Pancakes...
* The last thing he/she said as he/she was leaving...
* I am ready.

2. Cipher - Have your voice heard and be part of something unifying and beautiful!
*** Please await instructions!

3. Index Cards - Please Complete Properly
* Name - First, Last (Nickname)
* Email* 
* Something you did over the summer?
* Why did you choose this class?
* What do you know about this class?
* Last Years - English Teacher
* Favorite places to visit or travel?
* Passions! - Hobbies/Interests/Talents
* Plans for next year?