Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Penfield Contest, Portfolio & Pamela Houston Draft

Today in the lab please complete the following tasks:

1. If you have not yet completed DRAFT ONE of your Pamela Houston draft, you are late and need to complete this draft today. Print and put your draft in your portfolio when you have completed it.

2. Work on the Vonnegut advice revision. See post below for details. Please complete ANY draft of ANY assignment you have worked on this marking period. Use the time in lab today to complete your previous or revised drafts. Some suggestions might include: The Ray Bradbury story draft, any workshopped or revised draft, Madonnas of Leningrad, closed poetry form, open poetry form drafts, ekphrastic poetry drafts, nature poetry drafts, everyday poetry, internal monologue, tense draft, etc.

3. Prepare ONE poem you've written this year (that you like enough to send it to a contest) and send it electronically to the PENFIELD POETRY CONTEST. You must save your work as a PDF or Word document (doc) file. Your name should NOT appear on the same page as the poem. A separate page with the contestant's (you) NAME, GRADE, SCHOOL, HOME ADDRESS, & PHONE # should be included on the cover page. The poem should not have a heading, but should have a title. Send your entry to: lgrills@libraryweb.org and enter POETRY CONTEST in the subject line of the email. Deadline is MONDAY, April 30. But do this today or Thursday so you don't forget!

4. With time remaining, please either:
A. Read Cat's Cradle
B. Write a poem. Write a story. Write a play. Write a... you get the idea.
NOTE: Many of you have not yet turned in your book review. This is past due and will affect your overall grade (even if you chose to read the entire book). Please complete this assignment on your own time.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.