Today's agenda
1) Journal Prompt
2) Dystopia vs Utopia Power point (see resources page)
3) Read "The Veldt" and answer questions
4) Writer's workshop: Finish 3 pages of your story by Friday

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Coming up:
1) Open Mic on Friday!
2) Complete 3 pages of your short story by Friday

Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt
2) Plot twists--see resources in the "Plot" folder
3) Writer's workshop: work on your final drafts

Coming up:
1) Open Mic on Friday!
2) Complete 3 pages of your short story by Friday

Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt: What if Job Hunting was literal? If you killed someone, you had the option of taking their job? 
2) Foreshadowing and Flashback (see resources page)
3) Writer's workshop: Draft your final project

Coming up:
1) Three pages of your story need to be completed before break!
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Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt
2) Introduce final project (see resources page)
3) Prologue and In Medias Res--techniques for writing
4) Writer's workshop: draft your story

Coming up:
1) Three pages of your story need to be completed before break!
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Today's agenda:
1) Independent reading
2) Open Mic!
3) Dystopia vs Utopia power point
4) Read The Veldt and answer questions. Identify elements of plot along the way. 
5) Writer's workshop: Fill out the plot chart for your own story. 

Today's agenda: 
1) Independent reading--turn in mood board
2) Introduce Hero's Journey
3) Chart out a hero's journey in a story you know
4) Brainstorm conflicts for different worlds and for your own
5) Create a character that can deal with the conflicts in your world
6) Writer's workshop--fill out a character chart for your protagonist

Coming up:
Prepare for Open Mic tomorrow
Work on your character chart and develop your idea for a short story

3 HOUR DELAY

Today's agenda:
1) Independent reading
2) Introduce Freytag's model for plot lines
3) Examine the model in short videos--first as a class then with a partner

Coming up: 
1) Your mood board is due tomorrow!
2) Start figuring out the short story you want to write for your final project. 

These days were cancelled due to inclement weather. 

Your mood board was due today. Due to the school cancellations, this mood board will now be due on Thursday. We MAY have time to work on it in class on Wednesday, but that time is not guaranteed. Make sure you are working on it at home. If you can't, please email me at msanders2@wcpss.net and we can figure out a plan to make sure you can get it done. 

Today's agenda:
1) independent reading
2) Open Mic!
3) Introduce final assignment for setting: mood board (see 5 Mood Board in the resources page). This assignment is due on Tuesday. 

Make sure you choose a setting that you are really interested in as you will be using it to write a longer short story, which will be your final exam project. 

Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt:
2) Discuss the building blocks of a society
3) Group brainstorm and come up with your list of 20. Use this Google Form to submit your list:  goo.gl/forms/U1yDWK4GcUx9eluo2
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4) Look for the overlapped building blocks and then create a "master list" --the ones that most people chose
5) Examine some other cultures and how they differ from each other, using the categories you just brainstormed. 
6) Pretend you are a (time) traveler and you went to one of the given places. Create a postcard that you would write home about your chosen place. Illustrate the front with a picture that would be representative of the time and place where you "traveled." 

​Homework: finish your post card for tomorrow.