20 May, 2010

Remember important quiz on Friday, 21 May. This quiz can't be made up during class, so make sure to get to class on time.

Rough drafts of Not Quite Children's books are due on Monday, 24 May. Books are due o Friday, 28 May!

One Less Assignment -- Only two more Assignments Due

Thesis are due next Thursday, 13 May!

The only other major assignment that will be due is:

Not Quite Children' Book due:

Friday, May 28

The "choice piece" has been cut from the curriculum.

Thesis Due Thursday May 13!

Tuesday, 4 May.

Thesis are due Thursday, May 13th. This date is a change. If your rough draft was turned in late, you will have one week (seven days) from the time you get your rough draft with comments back to turn your final draft in.

Today in class there were lessons on how to edit and move photos. There were lessons on how to make a text box to caption and cite the source of images.

There was a lesson on using a text book to make a side bar so you can place your ghazal in your thesis.

Note: Thursday, 6 May Ms. Margolis will substitute in class.

How to Find an Article from the Gale Group Number

Here is how to find an article when you just have the Gale Group #

go to olis.org

choose "secondary student"

choose "Gale Powersearch"

choose "Student Research Gold"

enter document #

choose the "search" next to document number input box

viola!

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Writers turned in their very short fiction pieces.

Writers wrote a self-evaluation based on the following questions:

Self Evaluation of Micro or Short, Short Fiction

State which form you wrote. State your word count.

State what you like about your story. Use an example or examples from your text if possible.

State what you think would make your story better (using a quote is nice).

What is your ironic twist. On a scale of 1-10 or other scale of your choosing how much of a twist is it?

State what grade you think you should earn. State reasons for this being an appropriate grade.

Writers will need to have turned in their story and self-evaluation for class on Thursday.

The class reviewed how to use Citation Maker on the oslis.org website.

Important Changes to Due Dates 4th Quarter 19 April, 2010

There are only four more major assignments due in Creative Writing Class. The most important is your Senior Thesis. I have changed the due date for that to Monday, May 10th. Three other due dates are listed below. You will receive details about each of the other assignments in class.

Thesis Due Date:

Monday, May 10th

Micro/ Nano Fiction Piece:

Tuesday, April 27

Choice Piece:

Tuesday, May 18

Not Quite Children' Book:

Friday, May 28

Wednesday, 14 April

Tomorrow writers are to have five (5) assignments to turn in.

Lunachicks Prompt: a draft of a story or poem based on an everyday happening or object

Facebook / Social Media prompt:

A) a Facebook/ MySpace profile of a fictional character

B) a story in which social media plays a role

Ghazal: a poem in this ancient persian format that teaches about the thesis

Moment of Realization Prompt: a story based in a "moment of realization"