Freshman - Wednesday and Thursday, October 15 and 16

Block days this week were spent doing a lot of writing! After our warm up, we got into groups of three. I handed everyone a photograph of a person (magazine cut-outs). For ten minutes, we wrote about the person in our individual photographs, imagining who they are, what they are like, where they are, where they are going, what's on their mind, etc. We experimented with point of view, as well. After ten minutes, we switched photos with someone in our group, wrote on that photo for ten minutes, and so on until each person had written about three different photographs. Afterwards, you discussed your writing with your group and compared writings that were done on the same photo to see how they were similar or different. Brave volunteers shared some of thier writing with the class, and I was very impressed with what many of you had written! Well done. We also spent some time discussing "the heartbeat" in a piece of writing, and you went through and located the heartbeat in some of your own writing as well as some of the writing models we have been looking at. Hopefully by the end of this week you will have some material to work with when you begin drafting your three creative writing pieces for your portfolios! No homework tonight, although I would recommend you start jotting down some ideas for your writing that you would like to explore...