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"

2 April, 2010

Writers turned in a draft and a final outline this week (final outline was due today).

Here you can get a copy of the handout on outlining.

Rough drafts of the thesis are due next Thursday, April 8 at the start of class.

Writers also have to submit one piece of creative writing to the Grant Literary Magazine next week. Writers should email their piece as an attachment (Word documents please) to"

grantlitmag@yahoo.com Each writer should put their name and period in the subject line of the email.

19 March, 2010

Writers have a "Drafting Portfolio" activity today.

The activities are based on readings about bad behavior on Facebook. Copies available in class.

1) Create a social networking "profile" for a character. This is a form of back writing.

2) Begin a story based in or around social networking e.g. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc.

NOTES from the board: Here is a link on how to use your note cards to create an outline and figure out what sections your thesis will have.

Due Date changes.

The model section was due yesterday, Thursday, 18 March.

NEW DUE DATE for the Outline is Thursday, 1 April (instead of Tuesday, 30 March). On Tuesday 30 March, we will be in the library doing research. You will need 50-75 notes to create your outline from.

Have a good Spring Break.

Friday, March 12th

Lunachicks assignment.

Writers read the lyrics and listened to the songs "The Day Squid's Gerbil Died" and "Spork" by the Lunachicks.

These two pieces about everyday objects and occurrences were used as prompts. The writers response must be kept and turned as as part of a drafting portfolio due Thursday, April 15th.