Upcoming Due Dates

• Writing notebooks: Friday, February 13th--added assignment: From today, read excerpt from Susan Allen Toth's Leaning into the Wind and write a personal story retelling a past experience where the weather is a character in the story.
• First Completed Draft of Memoir: Tuesday, February 17th
• Final Draft of Memoir: Friday, February 20th

Memoir Due dates

For the memoir you are reading on your own, you need to write four journals/posts while you are reading and then one last journal as a reflection on the entire book (a total of 5 journals). Each journal should be at least one page long.

Think about the writer's craft. You may want to write about:

• literary devices the author uses
• style elements
• affect the writing has on you
• favorite passages and explain why they are your favorite passages

Due dates:

• 1st post due Friday, February 6th.
• 2nd post due Wednesday, February 11th.
• 3rd post due Tuesday, February 17th.
• 4th post due Thursday, February 19th.
• Final reflection on entire book due Tuesday, February 24th.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

In the computer lab:
Two blog posts are due
Make sure you have access to the class wiki: creativewritingquest.wikispaces.com
Set up your aggregator: either google reader or netvibes.com
Add sitemeter: sitemeter.com

• Go to sitemeter.com
• Sign up for free
• Once you have an account, go to manager
• Click on html
• Copy html
• Go to your blog's layout page
  
• Add a gadget
• Click on add html
• Paste the sitemeter html
• Save the gadget
• Save the layout
  

Add a picture to your blog

2 February 2009

Class Activities:

• Sign up for memoir
• Make sure Ms. Peifer knows what your blog address is
• Writing prompt
• Read Alice Walker's "My Mother's Blue Bowl"
• Write a reaction in your reading reaction notebook on the writer's craft.
  

Writing Prompt:

• Choose a physical characteristic to write about: your hand, your hair, your foot, your freckles, your laugh, your height, etc. What are the emotional implications of that physical characteristic?