SummerWrite

Sep 28

Come on over!

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Aug 27

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Aug 24

SummerWrites 2012: Friday Week 9

Harry Potter

• Evaluations
• Finished the Daily Prophet
• Decorated cupcakes
• Quidditch Game

Cauldron of Fiction

• Anthology work
• Writing exercise
• Guided meditation
• First lines
• Maps and crests
• Final anthologies

Write On!

• Freewrite
• Discussed helpful skills of writers and usese of journals
• Unusual “pet words”
• Signed books

Rewrite your fiction

• All day group editing
• Starry Nites

Superheroes

• Rehearsed performance
• Made emblems
• Performance

Fantastical Fiction: World-Building

• Author’s Choice Time: Work on maps/drawing, work on story, publish work on blog, scanned maps onto blog
• Finished “The Dark Crystal

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SummerWrite 2012: Thursday Week 9

Harry Potter

• Quick Quills
• Bertie Bott’s Beans
• Quidditch
• Howlers

Rewrite Your Fiction

• All day group editing
• Script work

Write On!

• Freewrite
• Made collages from magazine photos. Wrote about them.
• Eggcercizes!
• Practiced making metaphors
• Went to Image City to write from photos

Superheroes!

• Wrote superhero monologues
• Superhero craft

Fantastical Fiction: World Building

• Author’s choice time: Work on maps/drawing
• Work on story
• Publish work on blog
• Watched Jim Henderson’s “The Dark Crystal”

Cauldron of Fiction

• Anthology instruction
• Writing exercise
• Magic
• Sharing exercises
• Stool Ball
• Naming Committee

Aug 23

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