Week at a Glance: Oct 12 - 15

English 8

• If you missed a class last week, please go to the archives and find out what you missed.
• Keep reading - each day at home and each day in class. Remember to bring your book to class!
• Friday 2.1: if you miss class on Friday, please write a myth to explain a phenonenom of your choice. Be sure to include a cultural symbol. Also, write with your plan for improvement in mind and we'll see if it improves with the next rubric!

English 11 AP

• Wednesday: in-class significant quotations assignment today.
• Friday: Come prepared to perform your Readers' Theatre role.

  

Writing 12

• Next meeting: November 2nd at 7:15am.
• First assignment: describe the view from a window - any window, bedroom, restaurant, bus, wherever - as seen by the character you gave birth to this morning and who has just received either very good or very bad news. Have some specific news in mind but do not mention it in the exercise. Don't even hint at it. The reader should be able to deduce if not the exact nature of the news, the tenor of it, whether it's good or bad, simply by the way you describe the view. The object here is to give the reader a sense of your character's internal life by relying on meaningful imagery alone. (This exercise is adapted from "through your character's eye" by Michael Knight in Naming the World.)
• 2nd assignment: make a list of ten things that might elicit a reaction from your character. (if he hates to swim, put him in a rickety boat, etc) Now write a scene using one of those situations and your character. (Adapted from Noah Lukeman's The Plot Thickens.)

Writing 12 Contests and Opportunities

•  Katherine has brought this to our attention - thank you, Katherine! http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ National Novel Writing Month is coming up in November. The idea goal is to write up to a 175 page (Grade 11 can write anywhere from 17,000 to 35,000 words, and Grade 12 is anywhere from 25,000 to the full 50,00 words) novel in between midnight October 31st and midnight November 30th. I participated last year, and unfortunately didn't make it, but I'm going for the full 50,000 words this time around. I was hoping that some of the other writers in Writing 12 might want to join me, I know it's a huge undertaking but it really is fun to just write and not focus on whether everything is "perfect", and it would be nice to have a group who could support each other.