9/9 and 9/10

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” In November 2006, Larry Smith,founder of SMITH Magazine, gave the six-word novel a personal twist by asking his community to describe their lives in exactly six words.

They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“From migrant worker to NASA astronaut”). and hilarious (“Married by Elvis, divorced by Friday”). And the Six-Word Memoir project was born.

Take a look at these for examples:
https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/teens/

Let's work with your list from the other day. Circle any themes you see.
Now work on a minimum of 3 possibilities for your memoir
Share out.

9/5 and 9/6

Six Word Memoir:


Mother of three, teacher of many.


Daughter of alcoholic, became a reader.


Determined and impatient, doer of all.


What is a memoir?

Now take a look and try to craft 3 memoirs based on some of your ideas.

Playwriting links

Pendragon home page
Pendragon's form
Advice
Teen Ink examples

Formating instructions

Monday 12/21

Most of us describe the world in the way that we see and hear it. Write from the 
perspective of taste, smell and feel instead, skipping all the usual visual and auditory imagery.

Monday and Tuesday

Creative Writing

Poetry Reading Assignment

In order to write good poetry, it is important to read poetry.  We will be working with free verse and you must read from both the Billy Collins website: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ and the poetry books here in the classroom.

Assignment:  As you are reading, you must find a minimum of ten free verse poems that you really like—five from books and five from the website.  You might admire the style in which they are written, you may particularly enjoy the subject and/or meaning of the poem, or you may really like the writing devices this author has chosen to use.  Whichever reasons you choose, you must hand-write the poems from the books into your writer’s notebook.  The poetry180 poems may be printed out and glued into the notebook.  Make sure you record basic bibliography information:  Title of book, Title of poem, author of poem, & page number.  They will be a part of your assigned write notebook check.

Friday 11/6

Hi Girls--
Please submit your Final Final Final draft through Classroom today and be sure all assignments up until now are complete. Then have fun writing off  one of the prompts below (or continuing on something you are already working on--don't forget to date your entry.

Harris Burdick

Here is the link.