Writing Response Groups

Hello Balladeers!

Pretend you are in a band today.  What ballads are making the album?  Which ideas are worth salvaging and rewriting?  Spend time today assisting one another with your word choices, rhymes, meter, and overall story telling.  Is your topic easy to relate to?

1. Prompts - Write
2. WRG - Please wait for your group.
* Work diligently.  Follow P,Q,W protocol.

HW
* Ballads - Final Draft due Friday - AC, Cipher
* Guest Writer - 'Sante Prince on Thursday

EC
Poetry Club TODAY

SD Slam Final - Mon 3/12

Prompts
1)  The first time I heard....
2)  It would have been wasted on me, however...
3)  Now, suddenly, life is looking up...
4)  The single biggest influence...
5)  It is with some relief then....

Ballad Writing Time

Hello Balladeers!

Take time to craft your ballad.  Play with your rhyme schemes and meter.  Make sure you are telling a good story.  Not every ballad is about juxtopositon.  Let's name some famous ballads and see what they have in common.

1. Prompts - Write your own version of this popular lines from popular ballads
2. Ballad Writing

HW
* Ballads - Drafts due TMRW for WRG
* Ballads - Final Draft due Friday - AC, Cipher
* Guest Writer - 'Sante Prince on Thursday

EC
Poetry Club Wednesdays
LE  on TONIGHT
SD Slam Final - Mon 3/12

Prompts
1) She's stuck in her daydream...
2) I look around, turn the radio down, he says, "baby is something wrong?"
3) We were both young when I first saw you
4)  Too young, too dumb to realize
5)  It's a little bit funny this feeling inside, I'm not one of those who can easily hide
6)  Oh me I fall in love with you every single day

The Ballads of Writers Workshop

Hello Balladeers!




Crafting a ballad is no easy task.  Stories of love and emotion, tales of rebellious trubadours, and adventure seekers, truth believers, and naysayers. Set to a rhyme scheme these poems require us to think in terms of folk songs.  Have fun writing these plot driven narratives.

1. Prompts - Write about these TWO subjects as if they were in a relationship
2. Ballads
* See Handout
3. Mentor Text - "The Ballad of Love and Hate" - The Avett Brothers
4.  Clip -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgyRJge2gk0

HW
* Ballads - Drafts due on Weds. for WRG
* Ballads - Final Draft due Friday - AC, Cipher
* Guest Writer - 'Sante Prince on Thursday

EC
Poetry Club Wednesdays
LE  on Tuesdays
SD Slam Final - Mon 3/12

Prompts
1) California and New York or Hawaii
2) Steven and Leslie
3) High School and College
4) Tragedy and Celebration
5) Running and Walking

Authors Chair - Sestina

Hello Beautiful Writers

Today we celebrate your writing.  Share your sestinas with pride! Share other work you are proud of completing.  Bring good vibes, let us come together as the awesome community we are.  Be cool.


1. Prompts - Let's write!
2.  Work Check - Reflection(s), Sestina
3. Cipher
4. Authors Chair

HW
* Ballads are up next!

EC
Poetry Club Wednesdays
LE  on Tuesdays

WRG - Sestina

Hello Sestina Students!

Today we edit and revise and workshop.  Take this seriously but have fun and be playful.  Listen to the advice - be sure to follow protocol.  Praise, Question, Wish.  Take your time!  Be sure that structure is correct and words are being used properly.


1. Happy Talk!  Feedback. Reflection
2.  WRG - Triad Time!
3.  Writing Time

HW
*Happy Ron - Reflection due TMRW
* Synposium Reflection - due TMRW
* Sestina Final due TMRW - AC, Cipher

EC
Poetry Club Wednesdays
LE  on Tuesdays

Come On Get Happy!

Hello Happy People!

Today we are joined by the one and only Happy Ron.  Happy is a motivational speaker.  He uses his music and writing abilities to spread positivity and goodness to all.  He is a staple in the Open Mic scene in San Diego.  He performs countless times weekly all over town.  How does he bring this joy to his work and then to his performances?  What motives Happy?  Learn with someone who does this everyday in his life. Come on Get Happy!

1. Happy has a song called "Terribly Happy" - write THREE other possible titles that have this ironic word play.  For example: 1) Excruciatingly Joyous  2) Hopelessly Positive   3) Over-zealously Sad
2.  Guest Writer - Happy Ron!
* Take Notes
* Ask Q's

HW
* Guest Tomorrow - Happy Ron - Reflection due Friday
* Synposium Reflection - due Friday
* Sestina WRGis TMRW Bring your piece annotated w/copies
* Sestina Final due Friday - AC, Cipher

EC
Poetry Club Today!
LE Tuesday

My My My Sestina!

Hello Language Lovers!

Alright! We are getting lengthy this week!  Welcome to Sestinas!  39 lines of structured goodness.  Be open - let it all fall into place.  Choose your words carefully.

1.Write SIX lines.  Use the words River, Light, Cabin, Move, Story, Blessing
* End each line with that word or a version of that word. Await Example
2. Symposium Discussion
3. Writing Time

HW
* Guest Tomorrow - Happy Ron - Reflection due Friday
* Synposium Reflection - EC due Friday
* Sestina WRG on Thursday.  Bring your piece annotated w/copies
* Sestina Final due Friday - AC, Cipher

EC
LE Tonight!
Poetry Club TMRW