As we have done with other great pieces of literature, we will examine a film today for plot, characters, and literary devices. Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Joe Roth, and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner. The film stars James Franco…
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Let’s Write a Short Story: Creative Writing Lesson Plan Monday 6/24/13 and Tuesday 6/25/13
On Monday we will have a quiz with 50 multiple choice questions. The quiz is found at: http://quizstar.4teachers.org/ Quiz topics will include: The Fall of the House of Usher: See The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe. Elements of a Short Story: See Short Story Elements. Plot, characters, and literary devices…
What Makes a Good Poem? Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Thursday 6/20/13 and Friday 6/21/13
As we begin to look at our poems in more depth, here are some of the rubrics and ideas we will be using: What makes a good poem? – Short Poems What is Good Poetry (What Makes Good Poetry)? – PoetrySoup What Makes a Good Poem? – Marilyn Singer How to Critique Poetry: 9 Steps…
Writing Toward Home: Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Wednesday 6/19/13
Here are further thoughts on Creative Writing: Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes. Due to the looseness of the definition, it is possible for writing…
Short-Stories: Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Tuesday 6/18/13
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” Joseph Heller This collection of ten short stories, Short-Stories [Kindle Edition] Various (Author), L. A. (Lemuel Arthur) Pittenger (Editor), was assembled nearly 100 years ago as a teaching aid. It “attempt[s] to present selections from a list of the greatest short-stories that have proved, in actual use, most beneficial…
Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief: Lesson Plan – Monday 6/17/13
“Revising makes a person aware of how vast imagination is. One accesses something much larger than one’s self.” – Baron Wormser This diary is my lesson plan for Monday, June 17 2013, for my 10th and 11th grade TRIO/Upward Bound Students. All of my daily lesson plans for this summer can by found at: https://youngpeoplespavilion.com/category/creative-writing-summer-2013/…
Why Poems? Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Friday 6/14/13
We have been using multiple intelligences in this class. we read, speak, talk, write, interact. And one of our subtopics has been the connections between all art and creatibe writing. Continuing that discussion, film critic Jim Dalrymple writes that Il Postino (1994) is the kind of film: that’s unwaveringly committed to its story, while somehow also…
Dead Poets Society: Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Thursday 6/13/13
Yesterday we watched Dead Poets Society and wrote and shared abut what the movie meant to each of us, as well as what we learned about poetry from the film. Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has…
Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Wednesday 6/12/13
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that replaces the word or name for one object with that of another. Unlike a simile, a type of analogy that uses “like” or “as” (you shine like the sun!), a metaphor does not use these two words (a famous line from Romeo and Juliet has Romeo…
Creative Writing Lesson Plan – Tuesday 6/11/13
Nice job yesterday. I really enjoyed meeting all of you and was impressed by the way you exhibited seriousness about this class and about your writing. Keep up that attitude and we will have a very fruitful summer session. REMINDERS: No electronic devices in class. There will be a quiz in class on Wednesday on…
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