After going over the proofreading homework from Tuesday in class, where we discussed some grammar rules regarding punctuation (its versus it's, whose versus who's, when to use colons and semicolons, quotation rules, etc.) we completed another writing exercise called "Picture Stories." You all formed into groups of four, and I passed around various photographs of different people, all cut out from a number of magazines and advertisements. For six minutes, you wrote a story about the person in your photograph (in any format you wish - a poem, a piece of dialogue, a short story, a narrative, a journal entry, and so on). I asked you to imagine what might be going through their heads at that moment, what they are about, where they are from, where they are headed, what are their hopes, dreams, fears, etc. etc. Then after six minutes of writing, you switched your picture with someone in your group and wrote on the next photo for another six minutes. After rotating four times, some of you shared what you came up with (they were great!!) The rest of the period was spent writing about more visual images. I asked you to write about specific scenes, using clips from the film Baraka. Using as much descriptive language as possible, try to make those visual scenes come alive for a reader (i.e., how would you put what you have seen into words that can adequately capture the visual?)
For Friday, we will be in the computer lab working on your initial drafts. I will also be doing a writing check (worth 20 points) that covers all of the in-class writing that we've been doing up to this point (Including Friday's writing exercise, you should have eight entries or more). Don't forget your notebook! If you don't have it with you, you will be given a zero - remember, the expectation is that you have it in class every day for the daily writing exercises.
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