Daily Class Activity: May 23, 2024
Activity 1: Check Revised Poems are Shared
I have emailed everyone who shared poems:
- If you didn’t get an email, please share the poems now to jpowers2 [at] fairfieldschools [dot] org.
- Check to see that you have shared two poems.
- Check that each poem has revised to show two additional line-break/stanza layouts.
- If your shared documents were incomplete, finish them and re-share so I know to update the grade. (Grading is based on completeness and worth 10 daily grades.)
Five-Minute Break: Cell Phone Use OK
Activity 2: Write a “Where I’m From” Poem:
- Read “Where I’m From” and “Genealogy” and generate a list of reusable poem ideas, form ideas and techniques.
- Repeat with “It Took a Lifetime to Write This.”
- Share your poem or a favorite line.
Five-Minute Break: Cell Phone Use OK
Activity 3: Plot Lines and Elements of Short Stories
- Look at the elements of a story and the structure of a problem story (LineofStoryElmntsDownload)
- Read a Simple Example: Sam’s Cookie
- Sketch out a quick children’s story
- Think of a character (a child, a dog, an iguana, a tree) with a problem.
- Introduce the character and problem to the reader.
- Have the character attempt to solve the problem and fail.
- And then make a second attempt to solve it.
- Have the character either succeed or make peace with the problem.
- Show the character satisfied or happy (resolution).
- Share your story, a favorite line or some other detail