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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