SummerWrite
Aug 23
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SummerWrites 2012: Wednesday, Week 9
Harry Potter
- Book share
- Tour at Eastman Gardens (our herbology lesson)
Write On
- Freewrite
- Picked a random word and wrote about it
- Created our own wordsfor the class to write about
- Made pencil journals
- Character writing exercise
- Guided character meditation
Superheros
- Superhero monologues
- Science museum gardens
Fantastical Fiction: World Building
- Author’s choice time: continue working on maps, continue writing stories/news reports
- Trip to the planetarium
- Shared our news stories
- Watched part of Jim Henson’s “The Dark Crystal”
Cauldron of Fiction
- Checklist
- Writing backstory/banners
- Setting/character traits
- Point of view
- Guided meditation
- Starting the story
- Brown cardboard box of fiction
- Technology
Aug 22
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Aug 21
SummerWrite 2012: Tuesday, Week 9
Harry Potter
- Quick Quills
- Dueling
- Wizard Trading Cards
- Chocolate frogs/popcorn
- Bring books tomorrow
Rewrite Your Fiction
- Style Manuel
- Group editing
- Publishers and agendas
- Publishing Websites
Write On
- Shared work
- Discussed different uses for journals
- Guided daydreaming
- Wrote about daydreams and shared them with the class
- Wrote about photographs from magazines
- Character generation
Superheroes
- Read the ABC superhero
- Worked on pop-up book
- Wrote alliteration story
- Skits
Fantastical Fiction: World-Building
- Went over world-building packets
- Shared names/descriptions of fantasy worlds
- Watched part of The Dark Crystal
- Author’s Choice Time: Write a news article from your world, draw a map of your world, write more of our stories
- Sharing time
SummerWrite 2012: Monday, Week 9
Harry Potter
- Sorting
- Cinquains
- Wand crafting
- Writing about wands
Write Only
- Freewrite
- Observed our classmates
- Interviewed and introduced classmates
- Filled out writer’s survey
- Wrote with our 5 senses outside
- Discussed our writing habits
- Field work!
Rewrite Your Fiction
- Introductions
- Group editing
- Snacks/planning session
- Video
Superheroes
- Read monologues!
- Decorated name tags/folders
- Took superhero quiz
- Created a superhero!
Fantastical Fiction: World-Building
- 5-minute bursts: look at fantastical pictures and write about what inspires you
- The 4 types of fantastical worlds
- Started brainstorming our collaborative fantasay world
- Author’s choice time: storywriting, world building, or drawing
Cauldron of Fiction
- Namecards
- The quest; Joseph Campbell
- Story structure
- Group Storywriting
- Character bio
- Map/world building
Aug 18
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Aug 14
SummerWrite 2012 - Tuesday, Week 8
Shakespeare Stage
- Perform names as poems
- Review plot summary and read scenes from Much Ado About Nothing
- Voice and body warm-ups
- Shakespearean insult game focusing on an actor’s intention and tactics
- Claire led jellyfish game
- Erik led press conference game
- Discussion of casting
- Bunny, Bunny as led by Chie and Claire
- Shakespeare Death Lines game
- Gratitude Circle
Magical Poetry
- Made fairy people
- Finished our “pop out” poems and read them aloud
- Talked/took notes on more kids of magical creatures
- Read stories like King Puck
Fiction Writing Skills
- Worked on our characters/stories and shared developments
- Discussed setting
- Watched a scene from Walle and talked about how setting affects character
- Co-wrote a story with a partner
Shakespeare Stage
- RMSC gardents and practiced garden scenes
- Blocked opening scene
- Stretch/”wake up” exercise
- Grid work based on our character
- Final scene block
- Went over costumes/set
- Made party costumes/set
- Made party masks
Where’s Walden/Outdoor Writers
- Morning Circle: Plant Day
- Plant Walk
- Write in Field Journals
- Treehouse visit
- Plantcrafting: begin word weavings
SummerWrite 2012 - Monday, Week 8
Morning Classes: Magical Poetry
Afternoon Classes: Fiction Writing Skills
Full Day Classes: Outdoor Writers, Shakespeare’s Stage, Where’s Walden
Magical Poetry
- Made introduction cards
- Wrote poems about our favorite seasons
- Went over magical creatures like brownies and changeling
- Wrote “pop out” poems
Fiction Writing Skills
- Introduced ourselves and talked about our writing interests
- Developed characters, individually and as a class
- Wrote silly stories
- Shared our writing!
Shakespeare’s Stage
- Introductions, 2 truths and a lie
- Human Machine
- Shakespeare trivia
- Read storybook of Much Ado About Nothing
- Lesson on iambic pentameter & Shakespearean poetry
- Read through “O for a Muse of Fire” speech
- Read scenes from Much Ado About Nothing
Outdoor Writers/Where’s Walden
- Introduction
- Map making
- Observation and sensory writing prompts
- Making field journals
Aug 11
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