Thursday, March 15

American Studies:

1. Registration
2. Finish Beat Poems–be prepared to present beat poems Friday (remember, this is going in as a project grade, so make it AMAZING!)

Creative Writing:

1.  Writing Practice: See through someone else’s eyes
2. Read Vonnegutt’s Creative Writing Tips
3. Finish short story #3–due Friday

Wednesday, March 14

American Studies:

1. Quiz on beat poems
2. Turned in LSG for beat poems
3. Worked in groups on own beat poems–these will be presented in front of the class on Friday

Creative Writing:

1.  Writing Practice: Write about a justifiable sin
2. Writing time: work on ss#3 (begin the story with a line from handout; include 15 lines of dialogue); due Thursday

Tuesday, March 13

American Studies:

1. Turn in R2L final draft essay
2. Group time to work on CA project
3. Due tomorrow: Beat poem LSG; be prepared for a quiz on the poems and ppt. info

Creative Writing:

1. Writing Practice: Topic determined by tables
2. Share ss#2 at tables
3. Rough Draft of ss#3 due Thursday

Monday, March 12

American Studies:

1. Write a summary of Cornell notes from Friday (5 sentences min.)
2. Go over beat poems as a class–take notes
3. Get together in groups and create a beat poem based off of handout (ask me for one when yo uget back)
4. You will have time in class on Wednesday to work on your poem; final poems due Thursday

Creative Writing

1. Writing Practice: Take a walk
2. Finish listening to “How to Make Dialogue Ring True”; take notes

Friday, March 9

American Studies:

1. Beat Poetry power point–take Cornell Notes Beat Powerpoint
2. Read Beat poems (Reader) and take notes in a group

Creative Writing

1. Writing Practice: Write about a confession
2.  Brainstorm: What do you know about dialogue?
3. Listen to “How to Make Dialgoue Ring True”
4. Take Notes
5. Short Story #2–final draft due Tuesday with copy of rough draft
6. Short Story #3–rough draft due Thursday
   1. Using “Best American First Sentences,” choose an opening line to use for your short story. Use the sentence as it appears.
   2. Create a short story based off that opening
   3. Story must include 15 lines of dialogue

Thursday, March 8

American Studies:

1. “What Keeps the Women Home” DYR
2. Go over LSG
3. Hand out rubric for final response to lit–choose one of your three responses to lit. to edit and revise. It is due typed, with the rubric and the three rough drafts (war poem, song of social change, song of your choice) on Tuesday.
   1. 12 pt. font
   2. typed, Times or Courier
   3. double-spaced

Creative Writing:

1. Writing Practice: Write about trash
2. Short Story #2 read around–read and comment on two other’s short stories, looking specifically for plot
3. Quick write about dialogue–what do you know about it?

Wednesday, March 7

American Studies:

1. Passed out “What Keeps the Women Home” LSG; due Thursday
2. Be prepared for a quiz on that reading tomorrow
3. Gave out CA groups/topics
4. Research for CA

Creative Writing:

1. Writing Practice: In the time of the butterflies
2. Writing time–rough draft of ss #2 due Thursday

Tuesday, March 6

American Studies:

1. Listen to “Little Boxes” (Reader); how does this song relate to what you are learning in history?
2. Read “What Keeps the Woman Home?” with a partner
   1. Define 3 vocab words you don’t know
   2. Write 3 clarifications as you read
   3. Write 3 questions as you read
   4. Write a 1 paragraph summary at the end of the article

Creative Writing:

1. Writing Practice: I laughed so hard I cried
2. Listen to Patty’s short story
3. Short Story #2 (based off of story montage) due typed by Thursday
4. Short story work time

Monday, March 5

American Studies:

1. Present top choice of research for Change America project
2. Go over project handout
3. Form groups to work on CA project with; fill out handout A identifying the cause you wish to support

Creative Writing

1. Writing practice: He (she) whispered in my ear
2. Finish 5 sentence short stories; share

Friday, March 2

American Studies:

1. AAW essay analysis:
   1. Read 2 samples of an A paper
   2. Explained how essays were graded (biggest mistake was not including literary reference, which brought essay down to a D)
   3. Looked at own paper, identified 3 ways to improve
   4. Retakes for this essay will be given Wednesday and Thursday of next week ONLY!
2. Socrates Cafe F451

Creative Writing

1.  Writing Practice: Answer the question you wish you’d been asked
2. Short Story #1 Pass around/workshop
   1. Read 3 other short stories, comment on each on a piece of scrap paper