Final Week, Important Dates:
Monday, July 25:
-Portfolio #5 Due
-In-Class exercise: Held Captive. Discussion about freedom, captivity, slavery, and being captured.
Students will make a ransom note about their own kidnapping, a collage of words cut from newspapers and magazines. Who or what is holding you ransom? What must be paid for your release? Who will pay it? Where are you being held? What will happen if you are not ransomed? Can you help yourself to escape?
Tuesday, July 26: Sara's Reading Recital Day
-Portfolio #6 Due
Sara's last day: Sara presents her final reading to the class
Wednesday, July 27: Talent Show day
-Portfolio #7 Due
-Last day to get class reading material approved by Alissa or Justin, 5 minutes or less when read aloud
-Last day to get class literary journal material approved by Alissa or Justin, one piece, length between 1-17 pages.
TALENT SHOW, 3:30-5:00PM in the Student Union Theater (call Melaney Scarberry at 895-2265 or email at sage.academy@unlv.edu if any additonal info is needed)
Thursday, July 28: Class Reading Recital day
Ben's Birthday!!!!!!!!!!
CLASS READING 3:30-5:00 in FDH 109; friends & family welcome. Refreshments provided.
Friday, July 29: Certificate Ceremony day
-Class Literary Journal distributed
3pm Closing Ceremony
Monday 7/11:
-get email address & blog log-in
-post Blog Assignment #1
-POV exercise
-read about plots 1-3 in the Master Plots book
Tuesday 7/12:
-post Blog Assignment #2A and #2B
-begin work on Portfolio Assignment #1 (due on Friday)
-read pgs. 104-107 and do the exercise on pg. 107 (in neat handwriting, at least one single-spaced page)
-read the bottom of pg. 81 (beginning with "First Person: Multiple Vision") through pg. 85 and do the exercise on pg. 85 (in neat handwriting, at least one single-spaced page)
-read over plots 4-6 in the Master Plots book
Wednesday 7/13:
-post Blog Assignment #3
-continue work on Portfolio Assignment #1 (due on Friday)
-begin Portfolio Assignment #2 (due in-class on Friday OR emailed to me by 9pm Sunday night)
Portfolio Assignment #2 is to craft a piece of your choice--a poem, a reflective essay, a prose poem, a short-short or flash fiction story, a regular story--with just one catch: it needs to include ONE item that you see in our visit to the Natural History Museum today!
Thursday 7/14:
-post Blog Assignment #4
-continue work on Portfolio Assignment #1 (due on Friday)
-continue work on Portfolio Assignment #2 (due on Friday in-class OR emailed to me by Sunday night at 9pm)
-Subjective Beauty Exercise (due emailed to me by Sunday night at 9pm): Write a page (it can be a scene, a poem, a short-short story--anything you like) where a character has a nontraditional view of beauty in some area of life: whether they appreciate architecture most wouldn't think is "beautiful," see the beauty in something unusual (like Frida Kahlo loved the unibrow! or perhaps a nurse in a battlefield tent sees a piece of bloody gauze whose stain reminds her of a blooming flower), or appreciate unusual things out of love (like a new mother thinking a spit-up stain on her shirt is beautiful). This can be in first, second, or third person (though realize, if it's in second person, this "character" will be the reader).
Friday 7/15:
-post Blog Assignment #5
-finish Portfolio Assignment #2 and Subjective Beauty Exercise
Monday 7/18:
-Post Blog Assignment #6
-begin Portfolio Assignment #3 (Due on Wednesday)
Portfolio Assignment #3 is based on a real-life project called Significant Objects that plays with the concepts of art and assigned value. In class, you will pick an object from a row of objects and it is your job to make the object significant by writing a story or poem that features it. We will read examples of authors' stories and the objects that inspired them in class.
-begin Portfolio Assignment #4 (Due on Thursday)
Portfolio Assignment #4 is an imitation exercise. Read at LEAST ten pages of your favorite author (or one of your favorite authors), and make a list of stylistic things the author does. It may help to see to what extent the author does the following, or what choices s/he makes with these style devices: minimalism/maximalism, repetition, unusual punctuation, point of view, past/present/future tense, vocabulary, subject matter. After you've made a list of what you might be able to imitate, try writing a story or poem or essay using these same techniques. Your assignment should include (at the top of your assignment or on a separate piece of paper) the name of the author and your list of techniques that s/he utilizes in the piece of writing you used to get inspired--try to have at least 4 items on your list.
Portfolio #3, Significant Objects
Hope: Good-luck kitty
Hannah L.: Creepy doll head
Tyler: Kitty feather toy
Kaylan: Homemade necklace in a black bag
Jeri: Mohawk wig
Robert: Sparkle deer
Jason: SPAM
Sara: Funny nose notebook
Jonah: Taylor guitar coaster
Emilie: Roosterbunny
Hannah: Make-a-Wish magnet
Clarice: TMNT bandana
Cynthia: Lambs in love pin cushion
Julia: Deep Sleep CD
Miriam: Luau sign
Ben: Elf
Nikki: PBR patch
