Schedule

=Schedule=

// How to use a USB mic on Macs // || [|Mac OS X Tutorials] Services that you will need to sign up for at some point during the semester:
 * ~ **Date** ||~ **Agenda** ||~ **Work Period/Homework** ||
 * 1/31 || **EQ**: What is Creative Writing?* Course Overview
 * Fair Use/Copyright
 * Creative Commons (Watch this great presentation here)
 * Creative Commons Licenses and Tools
 * Understanding Media File Types //File Extensions////.//
 * Create a Wikispaces account //(if you don't have one already)//
 * All Tutorials:** Atomic Learning (log in with username/password)
 * Google (not needed if you already have gmail or yahoo mail)
 * YouTube//(get today if you don't have one. Here'a little help.)//
 * Wikispaces//(get today if you don't have one)//


 * BRING PHOTOS TO CLASS FOR INTRODUCTION VIDEO ||
 * 2/1 || **EQ:** How do you want others to perceive you?
 * Course Expectations
 * How to use iMovie || * Begin using imovie to start creating your introduction video to share with the rest of the class! ||
 * 2/2 || ** School Canceled Snow Day ** ||  ||
 * 2/3 || **EQ:** How do you want others to perceive you?


 * Use iMovie to finish intro videos || * Use iMovie to finish intro videos


 * Due date changed to Monday 2/7 ** * ||
 * 2/4 || **EQ:** How do you want others to perceive you?


 * Use iMovie to finish intro videos || * Use iMovie to finish intro videos


 * Due date changed to Monday 2/7 ** * ||
 * 2/7 || **EQ:** How do you want others to perceive you?


 * Use iMovie to finish intro videos || * Use iMovie to finish intro videos


 * Due date changed to Monday 2/7 ** * ||
 * 2/8 || **EQ:** Why is journal writing important? How will we keep our online journal? How do we set up a blog?


 * The Eight Parts of Speech**

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 * Journal Writing**
 * [|10 Reasons to Keep a Journal]
 * [|Journal Topics for if You Get Stuck for Ideas]
 * [|More Journal Topics]


 * Creative Writing Tutorials**
 * [|Seven Deadly Sins of Writing]
 * [|Inspiration for Writers] || * Set up your own blog in [|wordpress]
 * copy and paste your blog address in the roster page of our wiki
 * //**BLOG: What scares you most about writing? What do you think you can do to improve these tasks? Do you think you have enough things to write about? Where will you find inspiration? Why do you think it's important to keep a journal?**//

[|Setting up a Wordpress blog video]
 * __Tutorial__**


 * Please Review the Elements of a story. You should have already learned these in years past. Please be prepared to have a short quiz on them tomorrow. Tomorrow we will read a story in class and you will be required to identify all of the elements of the story.
 * [[file:Elements+of+a+Short+Story.ppt]]
 * 2/9 || **EQ:** What are the elements of a short story?
 * [[file:Elements of a Short Story.ppt]]
 * [[file:Elements+of+the+Short+Story.pdf]]
 * As a class we will read, "The night I won the Right to the Streets of Memphis," by: Richard Wright.[[file:streetsofmemphis.doc]] || * Do this story evaluation project and respond to the questions[[file:storyelementseval.doc]]
 * When you've completed these, upload your Questions to the questions page on Ms Graves' wiki.
 * Next answer the questions to, "The Night I Won the Right to the Streets of Memphis."
 * .[[file:streetsofmemphisques.doc]]
 * Upload these questions to the questions page on Ms Graves' website. ||
 * 2/10 || **EQ:** What is the Senior Capstone research project?
 * 2/10 || **EQ:** What is the Senior Capstone research project?


 * Let's talk about this most recent news
 * Report: [|Only 5% of RCSD grads are ready for]**
 * [|college]**
 * THIS CLASS WILL BE IN THE LIBRARY COMPUTER LAB***
 * 1) Selecting a topic
 * Possible Research Paper Topics
 * Choose a topic which interests and challenges you. Your attitude towards the topic may well determine the amount of effort and enthusiasm you put into your research.
 * 1) Find information on your possible topics.
 * Search Databases
 * [[file:databases.docx]] || * Folks today I want you to search the databases and really look for a topic you think you want. If you decide on one, let me know immediately, so we may lock in your topic.

Write a letter to a teacher who wronged you in some way in your life. Tell them about how hurt you felt and why. Explain to them how you overcame the obstacles they put in front of you. Be sure to mention why you're a better person than they are, because you overcame. ||
 * **Today's Blog:** Title: Letter to a teacher
 * 2/11 || **EQ:** What is setting? How do we create a setting in our writing?
 * 1) Take Quiz
 * 2) [[file:setting.pptx]]
 * 3) [[file:Lesson on Creating Setting.doc]] || **Work Period**:


 * 1) Begin working on your setting essay. Remember it needs to be between 1 1/2 to 3 pages long and in MLA format.[[file:settingessayassign.doc]]
 * 2) Upload your responses to "The night I won the Right to the Streets of Memphis," if you haven't done so already.
 * 3) **Today's Blog:** Title: Letter to a teacher. Write a letter to a teacher who wronged you in some way in your life. Tell them about how hurt you felt and why. Explain to them how you overcame the obstacles they put in front of you. Be sure to mention why you're a better person than they are, because you overcame. ||
 * 2/14 || **EQ:** How do we create setting in our writing and why is it important?
 * 1) Create Setting Essay Page on your wiki page
 * 2) Review Setting
 * 3) Individual Conferences about Senior Capstone Projects || # Continue working on your setting essay. Remember it needs to be between 1 1/2 to 3 pages long and in MLA format.[[file:settingessayassign.doc]]
 * 4) Ensure you have all your work completed and uploaded before we leave for February break this Friday.
 * 5) **Today's Blog:** What would you do if you knew you wouldn’t fail? Explain!!!! ||
 * 2/15 || **EQ**: How do we create setting in our writing and why is it important?
 * 1) Review Setting
 * 2) Individual Conferences about Capstone and setting essays. || # Continue working on your setting essay. Remember it needs to be between 1 1/2 to 3 pages long and in MLA format.[[file:settingessayassign.doc]]
 * 3) REMEMBER TODAY IS YOUR LAST CLASS PERIOD TO WORK ON YOUR SETTING ESSAY. ||
 * 2/16 || **EQ:** What is characterization? How do we create characterization in our writing?


 * 1) [[file:ppt_LC_Characterization.pdf]] || **SETTING ESSAY DUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!*****


 * 1) We were experiencing some technical (computer) difficulties today! Please complete your blog for today and make up any work you owe me or complete and upload your setting essay.
 * 2) Today's Blog: It is about anything you want. You are able to write about anything you've really been struggling with or having a hard time wrapping your head around. I specifically want you to focus on your feelings and emotions, not just how your day is going, but how you're feeling about things in your life. ||
 * 2/17 || **EQ:** What is characterization? How do we create characterization in our writing?
 * 1) [[file:ppt_LC_Characterization.pdf]]
 * 2) Examples of how writers create characterization.[[file:CharacterizationExcerptsfromShortStories.pdf]]
 * 3) [[file:Examples of Characterization Using Some Excerpts from Famous Short.doc]] || # Respond and do an evaluation of the short stories we just read in class.
 * 4) [[file:Characterization Evaluation.doc]]
 * 5) **Today's Blog:** Title: My favorite Memory. What is your favorite memory? Describe it in great detail. Remember we're working on sensory details. Try to make this blog as vivid as possible. Describe everything you can possibly remember about that day/event. ||
 * 2/18 || **EQ:** What is characterization? How do we create characterization in our writing? || FInish your character essay if you have not done so! If you have completed it, go back and re-read and edit your essay, so that it is ready for my evaluation. ||