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Your grade for today is based on whether you share a GoogleDoc with me with your rough draft in it. I will look in the revision history and see what was in the doc at the beginning of class. 10 points.

All directions are on the worksheets I'm handing out. If you are absent or lose it, the editing worksheet can be found here. Both sides are due completed and turned in by the end of class Monday, so I recommend you finish one side of it today - self-editing or peer editing, your choice.

The rubric for your final can be found here.

The literary devices you can use are: rhyming, imagery and the devices defined on this worksheet we did with Love Poem.

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Today:

• So far, you have prepped to write a poem using sentence frames from "Immortality," written a letter to yourself in the future, and written using sentence frames like "I am ____." I put comments about what would be interesting things to write about further. If you feel like you don't have something to write about from those prompts or any other idea, let me know.
• If there is something you want to write about, but don't want the whole class to hear about, let me know and we can figure something out. You will still need to present in some way, but I don't want you to not write about something just because you don't want the class to hear about the subject matter.
• Use the prompts you've already written on to work on your first draft. By the end of today, for 5 points, you need to give me a piece of paper with these three things:
• Your topic/concept/theme.
• A key line/sentence you have written so far that you are proud of.
• Possible title for your poem.

Tomorrow/Friday: Rough Draft is due typed at the beginning of class (printed or in GoogleDocs). The more you have written, the more helpful the editing process will be for you, but to get credit, you need to have the start of a poem. You will receive 10 points for bringing work to class typed and completing the editing assignment for the day.

Monday: We will continue to edit and practice performing.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: Presentations as final exam. Turn in a typed copy of your poem with literary devices annotated on Tuesday and presenting order will be picked at random. Rubric

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I am ___________.
I wonder _____________.
I hear ________________.
I see ________________.
I want _______________.
I am ____________________.

I pretend _______________.
I feel ______________.
I touch ____________.
I worry ___________.
I cry ________________.
I am _________________.

I understand _____________.
I say _____________.
I dream _______________.
I try ____________.
I hope ________________.
I am __________________.

By the end of class, write down a few lines/ideas/concepts that you think you can turn into a poem... Tomorrow, we can either do another prompt or if you think you already have an idea, it can be a writing day. Rough draft due beginning of class Friday.

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Grab a netbook!

Long-term Plan:

• This week, we will have prompts today, Wednesday, and Thursday and using one of those prompts or your own idea, write the Rough Draft of your poem - due beginning of class Friday. 
• Then Friday and Monday you will have time to edit your poem individually and in groups.  
• For your final at the end of next week, you will read/present your poem.

Today's Plan:

• By the end of class, you will have written a letter to yourself that will be emailed to you in the future via technology! FutureMe 
• First, you are going to write on several prompts to get ideas for the letter and hopefully for your poems as well. 
• Then, you'll edit it into a letter to yourself.

Do Now:

• Pick a writing partner and move your desks together. You and your partner should talk about what you would want to say to yourself in the future.
• When computer logs in, create a GoogleDoc, title it 'LastName Letter' and share with cynthiaeduncan@gmail.com

For each prompt -

• Three minutes to write, two minutes to talk to your writing partner per prompt. 
• You can write advice, a story, something you have learned, describe people you met, random musings...

Prompts:

• Something you want to remember about freshman year.
• Sophomore or junior year.
• Senior year.
• Job in the future.
• People you think will still be in your life family/friends.

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Quickwrite: 

What is one thing that went well about Senior Project? What is one thing you wish you had done differently?


Nine more days of class!!! We're going to focus on writing poetry because your final will be reading an original poem to the class.


Today we're doing a Rudy Mad-lib. These are sentence starters from "Immortality" - think about what kind of poem you want to write and finish some of these sentences and combine them into a paragraph. 

I want to write a poem, ________________________. 
I want to write that ________________ poem.  
I want to write a poem so beautiful _______________. 
I want to write a poem, but I want it to say _____________.
I want to write two poems for everyone ____________.
I want to talk about when _________.
I want my metaphors and similes to __________________.
I want to fix _______________.
I want to be the one who _________________.
I want my words of ___________ to inspire someone to be _____________.
I want my phrases to be _____________.
I want people to recite my work 10 years from now and have critics say  ____________.
I just want people to know_______________.
Poetry will allow me to  ________________.

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If your name is not listed below, you should have edits on your Cover Letters from me in GoogleDocs (got full credit).

• I have Word Docs from Johnny, Brenda, and Cynthia. All looked fine, so I didn't print them with edits (got full credit).
• Gerardo, Rachel and Karina I have documents shared from, but aren't completed enough for me to grade them.
• I have no cover letters from Lupita, Joseph, and Abel.

Here is the sample for those of you who have not formatted it like a letter yet (date, salutation, closing with place for you to sign, etc.)
Resumes:

• Everyone received full credit that I received a resume from.
• I need to see resumes from Sergio and Gerardo.

Resume Checklist:

• If you have it in a table, make sure you get rid of the lines to make it look more professional. (Right click on the lines, click Table Properties and change to 0pt border).
• Make sure you begin every bullet with a capital and end with a period. Do not have I, my, or mine anywhere in your resume.
• Get rid of all prompts like 'job title, dates worked." Just have your information.

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Plan for the next couple weeks...

Today and tomorrow we will finish up lyrics presentations and Louder than a Bomb. We will do some writing about the movie as well.

Wednesday and Thursday you will have time to edit cover letters and resumes (I will return them Wednesday) and work on anything else you need to. Does anyone want to practice Thursday?

Friday you will begin writing poems of your own. We will work on your own poems through June 4th and then you will present your poems in some way as your final.