Creative+Writing

=Quote of the Week:=

"On Wednesday afternoon, between the geography lesson on ancient Egypt's handoperated irrigation system and an art project that involved drawing a model city next to a mountain, our fourth-grade teacher, Mr. Hibler, developed a cough." --from //Gryphon// by Charles Baxter

Syllabus


Have a parent or guardian read and sign. Turn into me for credit as your first assignment.

ePortfolio Outline and Rubric


=POETRY= Pass-around Poem: Write down 20 random lines of poetry from twenty differnt poems.

¨ 1. Type and edit your pass-around poem

¤ Type up 1st draft as is
¤ Type 2nd draft only taking words out of the poem ¤ Type 3rd draft from 1st draft but this time you can move things around and insert your own words

¨ 2. Look up information about the poet Henry David Thoreau and his book, //Walden// a. Provide a brief (5 sentence) summary of his life b. Provide a brief (5 sentence) summary of //Walden//

1.24 Ars Poetica:

1.26 False Translation:



1.30 Creating a Dropbox account

2.1 Enjambment

2.3 Vocabulary Poem

Type of enjambment poem and turn in Tuesday, February 7th.

2.9 Imagism



Type two imagist poems and turn into me by 2.13

2.13 Eigner

Follow this link for the in-class reading (first 5 pages of the 1st link and all poems for the second):

[|L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E]

[|Eigner's Poetry]

Extra Credit: Type a one page summary of the following Autobiography

Larry Eigner: Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 23



2.23 Emily Dickinson

Activity 1
Step1: Spend 10 minutes looking up facts, videos, poems, biographies, etc. about Emily Dickinson.

Step 2: [|Negley's Poll Everywhere]

Activity 2
Create an Emily Dickinson Comic Strip:

Step 1: Check out the example

Step 2: Find a poem [|Emily Dickinson's Poems]

Step 3: Create a comic [|Comic Strip Creator]

Step 4: Check off with Mr. Negley

Activity 3
Slant Rhyme

Step 1: Spend three minutes looking up what slant and end rhymes (also known as half rhyme) are.

Step 2: [|Negley's Poll Everywhere]

Step 3: Find one stanza from a Dickinson poem that makes a slant/end rhyme

Step 4: Write a 10 line poem that has a minimum of two slant/end rhymes.

Step 5: Print off the poem and save to dropbox.

2.29 Video Poem

Final



=PROSE= 3.29



[|Architecture Terms]

[|More Terms]

4.9 & 4.11

4.13 & 4.17

4.19

4.23



4.27

5.1

5.3

5.7

Fiction Final Story



=Links=

1. An exploration in meter from the University of Virginia: [|for better for verse]
2. Experimental poetry (what poetry can really do) brought to you by the University of Utah: [|Eclipse]

3. You'd be hard pressed not to find what you're looking for here: [|The Poetry Foundation]

4. Here's a great link to find great poets: [|Poets.org]

5. The ultimate poetry sound archive: [|PennSound]

= Videos =

A intellectual look at the age-old question, is rap poetry?

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=Thoreau Excerpt=