Wednesday 4/29

Can you believe it, I have to be gone AGAIN! Today's AW is below. Write off that for 10 minutes then you are free to write what you want. I am collecting notebooks tomorrow-600 words minimum expected for IWs and all AWS completed.

AW (stolen from Ms. Brown):

I will expect at least a 100 word entry in your notebook from this prompt when you turn them in tomorrow.

THE DREAM WORLD EXERCISE

Dreams are vivid and real in their bizarre imagery and logic.  The impossible happens in dreams.  They are full of characters and actions and sounds and changes, all without restrictions, limitations, or explanations.

Your task is to create a dream as a prose poem.  You can use one of the lines below to start, or find your own.  Remember to leap from place to person to time with ease.  Turn off the LOGIC button in your brain and let your imagination rule.

            One night the cows broke…

            A man had just delivered a toad from…

            I was eating blue…

            Someone vomits out…
            I am peeing out my left ear…

Tuesday 4/28

Still grading ELAs.  Today's 10 minute AW prompts are below. Choose one to write off and then draw a line after 10 minutes of writing and either continue on or free write.


*One time I went….
*I was always afraid of…
*A good place to hide was…
*A house I loved to visit…
*I wasn't supposed to…
*I felt free when I…
*I felt strange around…
*I loved to wear...

Monday

Sorry I am grading NYS exams today. Please spend 10 minutes with the following AW and then move onto writing your IW.

AW: Life as a hermit

Friday 4/24

We are on the quest for a mentor text--a short story we admire for one reason or another. Because of this quest, we will read the linked text here to begin our exposure to short stories about the length of htose you will be writing.  The Emperor's Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy.

THursday 4/23

http://creativewritingprompts.com/