Creative Writing January 14-18

Creative Writing  January 14-18

Monday
No class - Course Fairs

Tuesday

Last few 2-Voice Poem presentations

Make sure your poem is in your notebook and send to me on google docs.

Complete correcting run-on's exerciseFinish story from picture prompt on pinterest
http://pinterest.com/reallyrachel/quality-pictures-as-writing-prompts/
Proof read especially for fragments and run-ons

Thursday
Peer edit stories paying particular attention to sentence structure.
Begin "Working Over Language," Recognizing cliches.

Friday

Modifying Cliches:
In small groups, mix and match key parts of several different cliches and try to come up with expressions that sound like cliches but are, in fact, new.
Examples:
as old as the hills
as a crow flies
proud as a peacock

Modify to:
as old as the crow that flies over the hill

proud as the old crow near the hill


Read the handout example of a poem that has modified cliches and create a story or poem that 'literalizes' engages, or challenges the truth expressed in a cliche.

An example of 'literalizing' a cliche from Everyday Creative Writing by Michael C. Smith and Suzanne Greenberg is:
"Yesterday, my dad kicked the bucket. He kicked it down the stairs. He kicked it into the yard. He was so angry, he kicked in into Mr. Simmon's ornamental cabbage garden."  p. 133

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