Writing Response Groups - "TSL of WM"

Hello Writers!

Happy Wednesday.  Today we work in our Writing Response Groups.  Please follow protocol.  Be honest with each other.  Be sure to get the assistance and feedback you need so that you can make the appropriate changes as you move forward.  Please use your time well.

1. Prompt - See Below  (Prompts make for great additional writings for your 10 pages in Portfolio)
2. Writing Response Groups
3. Lyrical Exchange!  Did you go?  Comments.

Homework
* "TSL of Walter Mitty - Completed draft due. Typed.
* Authors Chair/Cipher - Friday
* Guest Visitor Sherwin Ginez - TOMORROW

* Semester Portfolio due on Monday 1/23 (Seniors)
*** Use the rubric.  This counts as your FINAL.

Extra Credit
* Poetry Club - TODAY at LUNCH
* Lyrical Exchange - Tuesdays

Writing Time!

Hello Writers!

Happy Tuesday!

Let's continue to use our time well this week - as our Semester is slowly descending.
Finish strong - make a solid impression.  Show your growth and expansive writing promise.

1. Prompt - Watch this poem - " Attempt to Write a Love Poem #1. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhgazYBTZQ
* What is your reaction to this piece? Comments?  What do you notice about his style? Content?
* Write THREE questions for Sherwin's visit on Thursday.
2. Writing Time - "TSL of WM" - Continue to explore your own take on the themes and stylistic choices we read, discussed, and analyzed.  Use Thurber techniques purposefully! Dialogue, starter sentences, onomatopoeia, repeated symbols, paragraph structure, ellipses...
3. SD Slam?  Did anyone go?  Comments.

Homework
* "TSL of Walter Mitty"
*** WRG Tomorrow - THREE dream sequences complete.  Typed.  Bring TWO copies.
Come ready to discuss your choices and areas where you want assistance and feedback.
***Friday - Completed draft w/Reality and Dream conclusion. Typed.

* Semester Portfolio due on Monday 1/23 (Seniors)
*** Use the rubric.  This counts as your FINAL.

Extra Credit
* Poetry Club - TMRW
* Lyrical Exchange - TONIGHT - Poetry Club Excursion 

Immitate "TSL of WM"

Hello Writers!

Happy Rainy Monday.  Let's use our time well this week - as our Semester is slowly descending.
Finish strong - make a solid impression.  Show your growth and expansive writing promise.

1. Prompts - Stick your Finger!
2. Writing Time - "TSL of WM" - Continue to explore your own take on the themes and stylistic choices we read, discussed, and analyzed.  Use Thurber techniques purposefully! Dialogue, starter sentences, onomatopoeia, elipses...

Homework
* "TSL of Walter Mitty" -  Deadlines -
***Wednesday WRG - THREE dream sequences complete.  Typed.  Bring TWO copies.  Come ready to discuss your choices and areas where you want assistance and feedback.
***Friday - Completed draft w/Reality and Dream conclusion. Typed.

* Semester Portfolio due on Monday 1/23 (Seniors)
You will receive a rubric with specific requirements TMRW.
This counts as your FINAL.

Extra Credit
* Poetry Club - Wednesdays
* SD Slam - TONIGHT
* Lyrical Exchange - TMRW - Poetry Club Excursion 

Finish Mitty and Authors Chiar

Hello Writers!

Happy Friday

1. Prompts - Preparedness.  What do you do to prepare for moments where you need to be at your best.  Are there situations you dream/aspire to that you know you need to be way more prepared than you are at this moment
2. Finish- "TSL of Walter Mitty"
* Annotate, Discuss, Offer Insight!
* Please note the tactics Thurber uses in his writing to connect the dreams and realities, as well as how the action juxtaposes the character traits of Walter Mitty,
3.  Authors Chair/Cipher

Homework
* "TSL of Walter Mitty" - Immitate paragraphs 3 and 4 and transition into your Second dream sequence.  Use Thurber techniques purposefully! Dialogue, starter sentences, onomatopoeia, elipses...
* Semester Portfolio due on Monday 1/23 (Seniors)
You will receive a rubric with specific requirements

Extra Credit
* Poetry Club - Wednesdays
* SD Slam - Monday 1/9
* Lyrical Exchange - Poetry Club Excursion on 1/10 

Walter Mitty - Read, Annotate, Discuss

Hello Writers!

Let's do these things today:

1. Prompt - Await Instructions and Example
2. Read - "TSL of Walter Mitty"
* Annotate, Discuss, Offer Insight!
* Please note the tactics Thurber uses in his writing to connect the dreams and realities, as well as how the action juxtaposes the character traits of Walter Mitty,
3.  Jen Harris - Thoughts/Reflections/Take Aways

Homework
* "TSL of Walter Mitty" - First dream sequence and one sentence separation.  Use dialogue, starter sentences, elipses...
* Authors Chair - TMRW!
Poem/Poet, Prompts, Greatest Hits
* Semester Portfolio due on Monday 1/23 (Seniors)
You will receive a rubric with specific requirements

Extra Credit
* Poetry Club - Wednesdays
* SD Slam - Monday 1/9
* Lyrical Exchange - Poetry Club Excursion on 1/10 

Guest Writer - Jen Harris

Hello Writers!

Today we welcome Jen Harris to our Writers Workshop. 
Please take notes, ask questions, write, participate, share, and enjoy your time.  Be here. Be present.

Jen Harris is a writer, a thinker, and a fundraiser.   She is a humanist, a passion-pusher, and an entrepreneur that serves socially - minded individuals, organizations, and communities.

Jen believes that WE are the cause. She states that as writers and critical thinkers - we must be mind and action oriented.  We must aspire to ignite ideas and then see them come to life. "We are a collective." she explains. "We are a group - a cooperative - committed to moving aspiration into reality.  We are integrated, we are passion, we are pursuit."

Creative and tactile, strategic and hands-on; Jen Harris believes investing in US - in the inspired - will pay dividends - personally, professionally, and socially. Please welcome her to our Writers Workshop.  

Homework
* We will finish reading, annotating, and discussing "TSL of WM"
Be ready to annotate and discuss the text, ideas, themes, and connections,
* Authors Chair - Friday!
Poem/Poet, Prompts, Greatest Hits
* Semester Portfolio due on Monday 1/23
You will receive a rubric with specific requirements

Extra Credit
* Poetry Club - Wednesdays
* SD Slam - Monday 1/9
* Lyrical Exchange - Poetry Club Excursion on 1/10 

Dream On - "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

Hello Writers!

Welcome back!  Let's finish the semester strong.  This week we will experiment with dreams and the sub conscious and what is reality and what is not!  Heady stuff!  Enjoy our text, notice all the interesting techniques you can you borrow and emulate.  Let's have fun.

1.  Prompts
2. Read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
3. Discuss/Mark the text

HW
* Semester Portfolios are due in 3-4 weeks.  Due date TBA

Prompts:
1.  Repetitive and reoccuring
2.  Nightmare vs. Dream
3.  What are THREE dreams you have?  Bucket list?
4.  Write a poem about dreams?
5.  What are the truths and lies about dreams?