Thursday, December 17, 2015

This is the Creative Writing FINAL

Please answer these questions in a New Post on your blog.  Number each of your answers and answer in complete sentences/paragraphs that reference the question so we can easily see which one you’re answering.  This should be a rather lengthy post to earn the entire  100 points.  Include 2 images.


  1. List/discuss several of the different pieces of writing you’ve done this quarter, including posts, comments, creative pieces, journals, in-class writings, and things you’ve written on your own.
  2. Name/discuss a couple of pieces you’ve read this quarter, including other classmates’ work and/or reading you’ve done in or out of class.
  3. Write about setting up your blog and what you have gotten from that experience.  How did you come up with the name for your blog?  Who do you think read it or who would you want to read it?  Will you continue to use it on your own in the future?  What kinds of things will you post?
  4. Write about journaling.  What kinds of things are in your journal?  Who would you want to read it?  Will you continue to journal?  What will you write about? 
  5. Type an entry directly from your journal that you consider notable.  It could be a paragraph or a page or so.  You don’t have to explain it, but you could.
  6. Type or copy/paste a passage or section directly from one of your pieces of writing that you consider notable or your favorite that you’ve written.  It could be a section or a page or so.
  7. What creative writing do you plan to do in the future, if any?  What do you get out of writing creatively?  How does this differ from the other writing you do, in school and in life?
  8. Some final words of encouragement, appreciation, inspiration, etc. for your fellow writers you’ve worked with this quarter...
  9. COPY and PASTE your answer to #8 as a COMMENT on as many of your classmates' final blog posts as you can.  


If you've done everything else, it would be great if you could cruise through your classmates' blogs today and leave some friendly comments on their other posts.

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Writing as a Gift


Please write a piece with the intention of giving it to someone in your life as a gift.  This might be a letter, a poem, a story, something else...

If you are comfortable posting the actual piece to your blog, please do so by the end of class on Thursday.  If you don't want to share the actual piece, just show it to me and do a quick post summarizing what you did.

You don't have to actually give the writing to the person you wrote it for, but I'm sure it would be appreciated (and a cheap gift!).  

On Tuesday of next week, we will incorporate some of this writing into an actual gift...


Also:

Remember your journal is due with 10 new full pages on Friday.

Bring in gifts, food, and household items for our holiday family as soon as possible (before Monday!)

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

The gift of giving

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." ~Aesop

Here's the information and wish lists for the family we adopted for the Crosslines Holiday Basket program.  I appreciate your willingness to share and give.  If each of us can bring just a little, this family will have a lot, I think...We've got a young dad and two little boys.

If there is something in particular you would like to be responsible for, add your name next to it directly on this post.  Put your name in green.  I marked a couple of things I will get below.  For the more general categories like Hot Wheels, food, cleaning supplies, etc., more than one person could sign up and just bring different things.

We need to have everything wrapped and ready for delivery on Monday, 14 December.


Myles (age 8):

basketball  Jacob
basketball shoes (size 2)
sports stuff  Jacob
Ninja Turtles
Legos (Star Wars)
Hot Wheels   Mariah
Transformers  Meghan
winter pants (boys size 6-7)
socks       Fraser
underwear      Fraser 
snow boots (size 2)      Fraser

Elijah (age 7):

Legos (Ninjago)
Goosebumps/R.L. Stine books  Joshua
Hot Wheels     Mariah
Transformers  Meghan
board games (Monopoly  Samantha, Life  Taylor
winter pants (boys size 6-7)
socks       Fraser
underwear        Fraser
snow boots (size 2)       Fraser

For the house:

non-stick skillet     Samantha
towels

Food:  

ham
pies (pumpkin, cherry)
(maybe a gift card for Price Cutter or something?)
everyday basics:  mac n cheese, pasta, rice, soup, etc.
cleaning supplies
toilet paper, paper towels