JANUARY Creative Writing CALENDAR
Many assignments are projected in advance.
Please notice "Last updated" date for current changes.
Last updated
1/24/05
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1/3
1/4
1/5
1/6
1/7
SUB: Read Children's animal books to class SUB SUB Outward Bound debrief
Round robin reading of animal books and team creation of rubric
1/10
1/11
1/12
1/13
1/14
Sequential planning of animal book due first draft of animal book due: rubric Animal book with pictures Computer lab 800 to make book
Computer lab 800: book due by end of class. No emailed books.
1/17
1/18
1/19
1/20
1/21
MLK DAY
Fruit Description
using all senses
Blind Bag
3 random nouns

Magical Realism
Read A Very Old Man

Write a MR piece as a class
1/24
1/25
1/26
1/27
1/28

Finish the Class MR piece

Write MR piece
Planning Page
Rubric

First MR draft completed in class and edited

800 Computer Lab

Type up MR: due at end of class

Write from a picture:
choose a picture and use it for inspiration.
Complete your pre-writing
Submit paper with picture on top (but not stapled). Label genre choice in heading. Genre choicews: Western, Science Fiction, Fantasy or Sport Story

-Take the reader behind the wheel of the worst driver you've ever known.

-Write a scene in which a moving automobile hits a young boy on a
bicycle. Describe the scene four different times, from the following
four points of view: the driver of the car, a passenger in the car, the
child on the bicycle, and a pedestrian who witnesses the accident. You
may guide your readers to believe that one of the versions is the
"truth," or you may allow your readers to decide for themselves, or
even question the very notion of "truth."
1/31
2/1
2/2
2/3
2/4
      LAST DAY OF QUARTER
Tentative, depending on schedule
Go to Chinook to read our children's animal books to kindergarden class