The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

​                                              Robert Frost

Multimedia and Webpage Design

Welcome!  This page is your home for information on what we cover each day in this course. You will find a listing of notes and assignments covered each day with access to any notes, handouts, and other resources available for download.

Please always check with your Learning Buddy for any missed notes, and be sure to see me for any make-up work. Refer to your Class Policy sheet for specific requirements.

Multimedia and Webpage Design Class Policies

Daily Class Notes

October 2018

Starting this week, all course instructional and project materials are in Canvas.
Students can access Canvas through their WakeID portal.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Writing: Of all the rules for font usage that you have in your notes, choose the five (5) you think are most important and justify your choices.  Why those and not others? Be specific in your discussion.
  2. Layout alternatives exercises
  3. Self-evaluation for poster design 
Homework
 Study notes on all principles of design

Monday, September 24, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Notes and examples of Design Principles:
    - Contrast (color, size, font)
    - Unity/Harmony
    - Scale/Proportion
    - Dominance/Emphasis
  2. Wanted poster assignment (in class Google drive)
Homework
 Study notes on all principles of design

Friday, September 21, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Notes and examples: Balance
  2. Balance analysis partner exercise 
    - Choose any three posters around the room
    - Identify the type of balance prevalent in the design
    - Give three pieces of evidence with your explanations to support your claim (type of balance)
Homework
 Study notes on balance

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Finish annotating design: Instructions
  2. Peer Review:
    - Trade designs with a partner
    - Add comments on designer's choices and their effects

Wednesday, September 19, 2018: Holiday (Yom Kippur)

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Complete design a flyer for a specific, one-time event.  Identify topic/occasion, purpose, and audience before beginning to choose colors, typefaces & fonts, and other design elements!
  2. Annotate design and present: Instructions
Homework
Complete annotations and preparations for publishing!

Thursday-Monday, September 13-17, 2018: Hurricane Days

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Notes: Print media for graphic design
  2. Design a flyer for a specific, one-time event.  Identify topic/occasion, purpose, and audience before beginning to choose colors, typefaces & fonts, and other design elements!
Homework
Study notes & complete design

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Top five typeface/font rules 
  2. Kerning practice
  3. Song Lyrics assignment (due by beginning of class Wednesday)
Homework
Practice kerning, leading, and tracking--apply to Song Lyrics sheet.

Monday, September 10, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Analyze examples of fonts for effectiveness, considering topic, purpose, audience, and occasion 
  2. Original Quiz assessment (Class Google Drive)
  3. Song Lyrics assignment (due by beginning of class Wednesday))
Homework
Practice kerning, leading, and tracking--apply to Song Lyrics sheet.

Friday, September 7, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Finish student presentations 
  2. Notes: kerning, leading, tracking
  3. Song Lyrics assignment
Homework
Study notes for quiz on Monday!

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Notes: making font combinations that work
  2. Begin song lyrics exercise
Homework
Study notes: Five font categories, face, style, and spacing

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Student presentations (contd.)
  2. Review of typography categories
  3. Notes on typography (contd.)
Homework
Study notes: Five font categories, face, style, and spacing

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Student presentations 
  2. Notes on typography 
Homework
Study notes: Five font categories, face, style, and spacing

Wednesday-Thursday, August 29-30, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Create a new folder in your Google Drive and title it Multimedia & Web Design.  This folder will hold all of your work for this class.
  2. Go to our Multimedia & Web Design Google folder, and download the Best and Worst of the Web assignment to your school MM & WD Google folder.  Follow the directions to complete the activity by Friday at the beginning of class.  

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Homecourt
  2. Working in a team environment: diverse personalities
    - Myers-Briggs personality test and analysis
    - Connections with teams
  3. Create a new folder in your Google Drive and title it Multimedia & Web Design.  This folder will hold all of your work for this class.
  4. Best and worst of Web design activity

Monday, August 27, 2018

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Nuts & Bolts
    - Student questionnaire/contact sheet
    - Class Policy sheet
  2. Professionalism 
Homework
  1. Read carefully the class policy sheet with a parent/guardian, and have them sign and date it.
  2. Finish Questionnaire (if applicable).



































































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Notes, Activities, and Assignments
  1. Complete notes from Ten Rules for Writing Dialogue
  2. Punctuating dialogue rules​ (read and follow them!)
Homework
  1. Revise and print out 3rd copy of your story for whatever day we next have class.  Save this revision with "rev2" in the title of the new document.
  2. Make sure your story is in your Google Drive and I have an invitation to it!

Thursday, January 5, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Peer review partner feedback
  2. Writing great dialogue! Ten Rules for Writing Dialogue
Homework
  1. Revise and print out another copy of your story for tomorrow.  Save original as "rough"; save revision with "rev" in the title of the new document.
  2. Make sure your story is in your Google Drive and I have an invitation to it!

Wednesday, January 4, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Point of View QUIZ
  2. Short story peer review #1 
Homework
  1. Complete peer review.  
  2. Revise and print out another copy of your story for tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 3, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Review Point of View (QUIZ Tomorrow!): Notes  |  Examples & analysis
  2. Discuss "The Flowers" by Alice Walker: focus on point of view and its effects on the story as a whole.
  3. Check short stories.  Focus question (reflection on "The Flowers" style):  
    Does every detail in every sentence have prupose and move my story forward? 
Homework
  1. Edit story to cut out anything that does not establish plot/conflict development, character, mood, theme, etc.

Have a Wonderful Winter Break!  See you on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Student Choice Award
  2. Point of View: complete notes on Objective & Stream of Consciousness
    - Notes
    - Examples & analysis
  3. Analysis of "The Ant and the Grasshopper" from three different points of view.  What effects do the different tellings of the story have on the way we see the characters? on the story as a whole?

Homework
  1. Study POV notes.
  2. Write rough draft of story (due Tuesday, January 3rd). QUIZ grade!
    - Use your plan from your Seven Key Steps of Story Structure notes.
    - Read guidelines for good dialogue before writing it, please!
            - Ten Rules for Writing Dialogue
            - Punctuating dialogue
    ​- Formatting rules

Tuesday, December 20, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. QUIZ: character description & characterization
  2. Point of View
    - Notes
    - Examples & analysis
Homework
  1. Read and annotate "The Flowers" by Alice Walker
  2. Answer questions (page 2 of doc); focus on how all element of story writing work together to achieve one unified effect!

Monday, December 19, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. John Truby texts out: The Anatomy of Story
  2. Read and take thorough notes on chapter 3.
  3. Compile your previous notes from your original story's protagonist, setting, conflict, etc., and complete the Seven Key Steps of Story Structure 
Homework
  1. Everything from today is due tomorrow!

Friday, December 16, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Discuss responses to "Characters and the Choices They Make" (#1, 6-8 sentences).
  2. Notes and additions to your character development:
    (a) Identify an internal (psychological) flaw your character has that holds him/her back. (What does your protagonist need to change in order to stop getting in his/her own way of reaching what he/she wants --or needs--by the end of the story?)  Your protagonist must have a character flaw!
    (b) What is going to be the inciting incident that kicks off the conflict in your story.
    (c) List three major incidents/battles that your protagonist encounters as he/she moves toward the goal?
    Consider it a punch/counter-punch move. What obstacle will the antagonist put in the protagonist's 
Homework
  1. Identify the specific time and place in which the bulk of your short story will take place. Make it intimate (close) and immediate.
  2. Write why this setting is significant to both the protagonist AND the story as a whole.

Thursday, December 15, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Check caharacterization prep work (grade) through #4a.
  2. Complete next two steps:
    - Write an 8-10 sentence setting description.
    - Then write your character into this specific setting, giving him/her a specific action.
    - Use indirect characterization techniques only!
  3. Teams review and comment on each.
  4. Read "Creating Lifelike Characters."
Homework
  1. Read "Characters and the Choices They Make."
  2. Write your responses:
    (1) React to/comment on the article (#1, 6-8 sentences).
    (2) Answer questions about your own protagonist (#2a-d).

Wednesday, December 14, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Personality/temperament tests (4 humours)
  2. Character prep work: knowing your character inside-out!
Homework
Complete #1-4a of the prep work (above).

Tuesday, December 13, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Food Drive Celebration breakfast!
  2. Quiz: Plot & Conflict Development
  3. Characterization technique analysis of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Homework
Character sketch prep: Imagine a protagonist for an original story--
  1. What is his/her background? (family life, schooling, friends, environment, etc.)
  2. What is one significant object for this character?  Why?

Monday, December 12, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Review conflict development (quiz tomorrow on plot and conflict!)
  2. Notes:
    - Character description
    - Characterization
Homework
  1. Study for quiz on plot & conflict development!

Wednesday, December 7, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Teams: complete analysis of Cinderella conflict development/plot structure.
  2. Individual work: analyze the conflict and plot development in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (animated version).  List each event in the story. Then complete the analysis questions.
Homework
  1. Complete analysis questions.
  2. Study notes on plot development!

Tuesday, December 6, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Continued notes on Plot Development
  2. Teams: Identify the different plot elements in given story
Homework
Study notes--prepare for written review tomorrow!

Monday, December 5, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Collected all sonnet work--final draft on top of rough, revisions, and reviews
  2. Introduction to fiction
  3. Notes: plot v. story; plot development; relationship between plot and conflict
Homework
Study notes--prepare for written review tomorrow!

Friday, December 2, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Team evaluations, round 2--discuss progress on revised sonnet drafts
  2. Work on revisions.
Homework
Final sonnet draft due, printed out, and stapled to drafts and evaluation for each.

Thursday, December 1, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Notes and practice on revising closed form poetry for rhyme and meter.
  2. As a team, complete evaluations for each member's first draft. Be thorough!
  3. Work on revisions.
Homework
Sonnet revision due typed and printed out for 2nd round of evals. tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 30, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. FIrst team sonnet evaluations and discussion.
  2. As a team, complete the eval. form for each member's sonnet.  Be thorough!
Homework
Begin sonnet revisions.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Read and discuss practical steps for sonnet pre-writing (in On Writing an Original Sonnet packet).
  2. Complete your own topic chart, emulating the example in the packet: focus on concreteness and metaphor!
  3. Begin drafting lines of iambic pentameter.
Homework
Complete initial draft of sonnet.

Monday, November 28, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Quick Quiz on sonnet form terms
  2. Sonnet study: Notes & Models 
    - Close reading/analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
    - Analysis of Drayton, Wylie, and McKay sonnets: focus on how structure is a vehicle for meaning
  3. Writing an Original Sonnet packet: read through; choose topic and form
Homework
  1. Once you've chosen your topic and form, complete the following:
  2. What is your argument? (What are you planning on saying about this topic?  Where are you taking it?)
  3. Sketch a stanza-by-stanza breakdown of ideas—show the progression of #2 (above)

November 23 - 25, 2016​: No School--Happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday, November 22, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Quick review on sonnet form and history:  Quiz on Monday!
  2. Sonnet study: Notes & Models | Graphic Form Guide 
    - Close reading/analysis of Donne's Holy Sonnet 10 
    - Shakespearean sonnet form
    - Close reading/analysis & image drawing of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
Homework
  1. Study for QUIZ on all sonnet notes (history & forms)!

Monday, November 21, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Haiku publications in!
  2. Closed form poetry notes:
    - Ballad
    - Epigram
    - Sonnet: Notes & Models | Graphic Form Guide
  3. Notes: Irony (3 types)
Homework
  1. Complete annotation of ​John Donne's Holy Sonnet 10: focus on the idea presented in the octave and how the sestet responds to it.
  2. Study notes!

Friday, November 18, 2016​

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Haiku publication work (due completed by Monday)
Homework
1. Study archetype notes!
2. Finish poster.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Written Review on Archetypes notes from yesterday
    - Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious
    - Joseph Campbell
    - Sun + rising sun and setting sun
    - Water + river and sea
    - Colors (white, green, blue, black, red)
  2. Begin hailu posters (due completed by Monday)
Homework
1. Study notes!
2. Work on haiku poster.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. (Before completing design for haiku poster) Notes: Archetypes
    - Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious
    - Joseph Campbell
    - Sun + rising sun and setting sun
    - Water + river and sea
    - Colors (white, green, blue, black, red)
  2. Complete design of poster, making purposeful choices of colors and images for their archetypal impact.
Homework
Study notes!
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Haiku peer/team evaluations
  2. Choose best one of your three.  Revise according to comments and guidelines on eval. sheet.
  3. Follow requirements for your haiku poster. Create mock-up (rough draft) of design, ready to transfer to poster tomorrow.
Homework
Complete haiku poster rough design.
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Quiz: Rhythm and Scansion terms and identification
  2. Scansion in Action analysis
  3. ​Intro. to Haiku
Homework
Complete Haiku with Personification worksheet.
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Friday, November 11, 2016: Honor a Veteran today!

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Rhythm and Scansion (notes) | packet (handout)
    Notes and exercises: Meter
    Focus: identifying repeated patterns, recognizing and allowing for variations and their effects
Homework
Know the following terms and all specific examples (i.e. types of feet and meter) for tomorrow: syllabification, scansion, rhythm, foot, meter.  Also practice scanning lines and identify foot and meter.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Rhythm and Scansion (notes) | packet (handout)
  2. Teams: check Blood rhythms worksheet homework together and begin working Scansion in Action application and analysis exercise.
Homework
Study notes for quiz covering all terms on Monday.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Notes: Rhythm and Scansion (notes) | packet (handout)
    Poetic feet (iamb --> dibrach)
    ​
Homework
  1. Blood rhythms worksheet--identify and create!
  2. Be able to identify all poetic feet tomorrow.
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Monday, November 7, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Person and Place poems collected
  2. Introduction to Rhythm and Scansion (notes) | packet (handout)
    Notes: common vocabulary/terms
Homework
Know the following terms for tomorrow: syllabification, scansion, rhythm, foot, meter, iamb
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Friday, November 4, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Teams: Place poem peer reviews (3)
Homework
Read feedback carefully; revise both person and place poem.  Typed and printed final drafts due Monday.
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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. New Teams: Person poem peer reviews (3)
Homework
Read feedback carefully; revise person poem.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Complete rough drafts for each poem: 1 person poem & 1 place poem
  2. Prepare poems for peer review tomorrow (typed and printed out).
  3. Complete self evaluation: 
  • #1-4 (for #4, answer the question: What impression did you want the reader to have of the person or place?
  • List all images and examples of figurative language for each poem.
Homework
Anything above that you did not complete in class.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. All five journals for person and place poems completed; submit them.
  2. Person and place poem roughs due ready for peer review on Thursday.
    - Focus on a distinct impression you want your readers to have for the subject of each poem.
    - Use diction, image, metaphor, sound devices, etc. to work toward creating that impression.
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Friday, October 28, 2016

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Person/Place model poems packet & questions
  2. Class Discussion: Poetry annotations & analysis questions for "Portrait in Georgia," "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," "The Neighbors," and "Sarah." 
Homework
  1. Literary Terms TEST:  You will have a cumulative test on Wednesday, covering the literary terms we have studied thus far: everything under SSTV-MIDST, imagery, diction, figurative language, and sound & sense devices.  Refer to the Tools of the Trade/Exam Review sheet I gave you at the beginning of the course as well as your previous quizzes and exercises on each set of skills.
    Format: Matching terms to definitions, Multiple Choice for analysis, Fill in Blanks for SSTV-MIDST, one poem analysis written response 
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Literary Terms TEST
Homework
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​​
  1. Person/Place model poems packet & questions
  2. Class Discussion: Poetry annotations & analysis questions for "Portrait in Georgia," "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," "The Neighbors," and "Sarah." 
Homework
  1. Literary Terms TEST:  You will have a cumulative test on Wednesday, covering the literary terms we have studied thus far: everything under SSTV-MIDST, imagery, diction, figurative language, and sound & sense devices.  Refer to the Tools of the Trade/Exam Review sheet I gave you at the beginning of the course as well as your previous quizzes and exercises on each set of skills.
    Format: Matching terms to definitions, Multiple Choice for analysis, Fill in Blanks for SSTV-MIDST, one poem analysis written response 
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Final persona poem collection (all drafts with their reviews stapled together; final draft on top)
  2. Person/Place poem analysis ("The Portrait") and assignment
  3. Person/Place model poems packet & questions
  4. Poetry annotations & analysis questions for "Portrait in Georgia," "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," "The Neighbors," and "Sarah."  "A Sybil" is extra credit!
Homework
  1. Complete #3 above.
  2. Heads up!  You will have a cumulative test on Wednesday, covering the literary terms we have studied thus far: everything under SSTV-MIDST, imagery, diction, figurative language, and sound & sense devices.  Refer to the Tools of the Trade/Exam Review sheet I gave you at the beginning of the course as well as your previous quizzes and exercises on each set of skills.
    Format: Matching terms to definitions, Multiple Choice for analysis, Fill in Blanks for SSTV-MIDST, one poem analysis written response 
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Friday, October 21, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Persona Poem introduction
  2. "My Papa's Waltz"
Homework
Persona poem final draft due typed and printed for Monday.
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Poem revision due for group review
  2. Use Radical Revision guide for editing: focus especially on line breaks and concrete closure!
Homework
Final draft due typed and printed out for Monday.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Peer Reviews (three) for each poem
  2. Use revision guides for editing
Homework
Revision due typed and printed out for another set of peer reviews.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Type in draft
  2. Check your persona poem draft against the guidelines.
  3. Complete the review sheet and answer the questions carefully about your own poem (self-review)
Homework
Revision due typed and printed out for peer review tomorrow (QUIZ grade).
Must have self-evaluation responses, as well.
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Fourth persona poem journal entry--your choice
  2. Persona Poem packet analysis: "Monologue in the Valley of the Kings"
  3. Discuss setting and perspective (speaker and tone)
  4. Writing Time:  Finish journal #5
  5. Writing Time:  Begin writing persona poem--read these guidelines carefully!
Homework
Finish draft #1. 
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Third Persona poem journal entry--your choice
  2. Persona Poem packet analysis: "My Last Duchess"
  3. Teams: analyze and answer questions for "Monologue in the Valley of the Kings"
  4. Discuss setting and perspective
Homework
None! (unless you didn't finish the questions for "Monologue . . .")
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Second Persona poem journal entry--your choice
  2. Discuss Persona poem exercise
  3. Persona Poem packet analysis: "Siren Song" and "My Last Duchess"
Homework
Complete questions for "My Last Duchess."
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Sound & Sense Devices QUIZ
  2. Persona poem exercise
  3. Persona Poem packet of models and questions for analysis of craft
Homework
​Complete annotations and questions for "Siren Song" and "My Last Duchess." Tone is crucial!
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Discuss & analyze all samples from exercise
  2. Full poems: Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" & "Daddy"
  3. New Journal Assignments
Homework
  1. ​Complete #3 (above) for homework.  Choose one of the Persona journal exercises.
  2. Study for QUIZ on Sound & Sense Devices!

Monday, October 10, 2016: No School (weather)

Friday, October 7, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Team contest completion and rewards!
  2. Notes: Sound & Sense Devices
    - Euphony
    - Cacophony
    - Onomatopoeia
  3. Identification and analysis exercise: Sound & Sense
Homework
​Complete #3 (above) for homework.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Collect Self-Portrait and Memory poems
  2. Notes: Sound & Sense Devices
  3. Team contest: Marketing and Sound & Sense devices--generate a list of as many company & product names and slogans using alliteration, assonance, and consonance.
Homework
  1. Final drafts of Self-Portrait and Memory poems due Thursday.
  2. Pick one poem, double-space it, and print it out.  We'll be taking scissors to it tomorrow--

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Radical Revisions cut and rearrange exercise (under "Other"--past #7)
  2. Notes: Sound & Sense Devices
    - Alliteration
    - Consonance
    - Assonance
Homework
  1. Final drafts of Self-Portrait and Memory poems due Thursday.
  2. Pick one poem, double-space it, and print it out.  We'll be taking scissors to it tomorrow--

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Radical Revisions reflections
  2. Team workshopping/comments on each members poems. Use the review sheets to guide your discussion of each.
Homework
  1. Final drafts of Self-Portrait and Memory poems due Thursday.
  2. Pick one poem, double-space it, and print it out.  We'll be taking scissors to it tomorrow--

Monday, October 3, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Peer reviews (round robin within team #3)
  2. Radical Revisions

Homework
  1. Take one of your poems that your team has workshopped, and apply at least two (2) of the techniques from Radical Revisions.  Bring it with you tomorrow--printed out!  
  2. Take the second poem, double-space it, and print it out.  We'll be taking scissors to it tomorrow--

Friday, September 30, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
Peer reviews (round robin within team #2)

Homework
See below to check if you have any unfinished business!
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
Peer reviews (round robin within team)

Homework
See below to check if you have any unfinished business!
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Drafting and Revision work: Memory poem & Self-portrait (Murphy's Revising Guide)
  2. Read James Tate's essay on crafting his poem, "A Box for Tom."  Answer questions on 1st page, preceding the essay.

Homework
  1. Finish reading "A Box for Tom" (handout) and reflection questions for it.
  2. Check your Google Drive and make sure you have your files in order (see #3 & 4 below).​

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Revision work: Memory poem
  2. Journal mining for 4th poem: Self-Portrait
  3. Be sure that you have a folder in your WCPSS Google Drive labeled Creative Writing that you have "Shared" with jbennett@wcpss.net. Make sure I have "Can Edit" rights.  Thanks.
  4. You should have four (4) docs in your Creative Writing folder:
    - Just Because (yourlastname): rough and revised versions
    - I Am (yourlastname): rough and revised versions
    - Memory (yourlastname): rough (work on revision)
    - Self-Portrait (yourlastname);  brand new assignment; working on initial draft/rough

Homework
Check your Google Drive and make sure you have your files in order (see #3 & 4 above).
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Monday, September 26, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Memory poem analysis: SSTV-MIDST
  2. Memory journal mining
  3. Write out memory poem.  Use Rules for Writing Poetry
Homework

Friday, September 23, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Share and discuss "Just Because" and "I Am" poems.
  2. Revision work: Find any abstract or vague language in the above poems and make it concrete (show it!).  If you have trouble finding any, have two other writers help you.
  3. Memory poem exercise: write about an incident in your past that affected the way you understood yourself or the world around you. (See handout for more details.)
Homework
  1. Go into your WCPSS student Google Drive (be sure to choose your WCPSS User Profile!), create a "New" doc, and type your original AND revised versions of your "Just Because" poem into it. (Title it "Just Because yourlastname")
  2. Follow steps above for both iterations of your "I Am" poem.  Title it "I Am yourlastname".  
  3. "Share" each doc with me (Jennifer Bennett/jbennett@wcpss.net)--be sure I have "Can Edit" rights.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Access our Google Class drive (You received an invite on your WCPSS email account.)  Do NOT use any personal accounts!  (Instructions for Accessing WCPSS student email and Google accounts)
    - Add up to three (3) of your favorite original metaphors from Tuesday's packet on the designated Google doc.
    - Add your own "Just Because" and "I Am" poems to their designated docs 
  2. Self-portrait poem exercises #3 & 5: "Just Because" and "I Am"

Homework
Complete both poem exercises.  Feel free to share them on our Google Class docs!

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Figurative language quiz
  2. Model self-portrait poem packet
    - Close reading/annotation & discussion: Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" & "Phenomenal Woman"
Homework
Annotate and answer questions in packet (next-to-last-page) for "Animal of Light," I Hear America Singing," and "I, Too, Sing America."

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

 Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" analysis
  2. Figurative Language workout check
  3. Similes/Metaphors stretching exercise (see me for handouts)
Homework
Study figurative language notes! (Quiz: tomorrow)

Monday, September 19, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts​
  1. Teams: original humaphors--write out as a paragraph
  2. Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" analysis
  3. Figurative Language workout
Homework
Study notes! (Quiz: Wednesday)

Friday, September 16, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Figurative language review and metaphors homework check
  2. Literal and Figurative language: Extended metaphors
  3. Stephen Colbert's Humaphors: video and analysis
  4. Teams: original humaphors
Homework
Study notes (Quiz: Wednesday)

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Self-portrait warm-up exercise
  2. Literal and Figurative language: Metaphors notes
Homework
Metaphors exercises (both sides)

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Self-portrait warm-up exercise
  2. Written review: SSTV-MIDST 
  3. Literal and Figurative language: SImiles notes
  4. Team similes!
Homework
Study SSTV and figurative language notes.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Diction Quick Quiz
  2. Finish notes: SSTV-MIDST with application to "Cast-off Skin" (R. Whitman)
Homework
Study notes.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Self-portrait questions (handout)
  2. Written review: diction, denotation, connotation (QUIZ tomorrow! Look over Imagery notes, too.)
  3. Tools of the Trade list
  4. SSTV-MIDST notes with application to "Cast-off Skin" (R. Whitman)
Homework
Study for Quiz!

Friday, September 9, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Journal #5 (choose from self-portrait journal topics)
  2. Team analysis and class discussion of Levertov poem exercise: analyzing and choosing best options for concreteness.
Homework
Complete final self-portrait journal entry.  

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Journal #4 (choose from self-portrait journal topics)
  2. Notes: Diction, connotation, denotation
  3. Concreteness handout:  analyze given poems for their use of concrete language and its affects on tone and mood
  4. Levertov poem exercise: analyzing and choosing best options for concreteness
Homework
​Complete #2 above: annotate--briefly explain why you chose each option--why it was better than the other choices.

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Imagery/concreteness quiz
  2. Journal #3 (choose from self-portrait journal topics)
  3. Share Five-Sense poems
  4. Concreteness handout:  analyze given poems for their use of concrete language and its affects on tone and mood.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Generating Ideas handout and clustering exercise
  2. Journal #2 (choose from self-portrait journal topics)
  3. Share Five-Sense poems (tomorrow!)
  4. Concreteness handout:  analyze given poems for their use of concrete language and its affects on tone and mood
Homework
  1. Study for Imagery/Concrete/Abstract language QUIZ tomorrow.
  2. Complete #4 above--all poems & questions.

 Friday, September 2, 2016

Notes, Assignments, and Handouts
  1. Generating Ideas handout and clustering exercise
  2. Journal #2 (choose from self-portrait journal topics)
  3. Share Five-Sense poems (tomorrow!)
  4. Concreteness handout:  analyze given poems for their use of concrete language and its affects on tone and mood
Homework
  1. Study for Imagery/Concrete/Abstract language QUIZ tomorrow.
  2. Complete #4 above--all poems & questions.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

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Monday, August 29, 2016

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