Mr. Fisher's Creative Writing, Argumentation, and Debate: April 2018

Sunday

Quarter 4, Week 6 of 10

Begin

drafting a

letter

for

Major Project #7...

(optional for Seniors)

This is your
last one
for the
year.

Who wants some pizza?

...so do I.

:-(

The box
of chocolates

that life

is like

seems, to me,

a bit stale.

But,

I still like

the metaphor.

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Major Project #7

Letter is due soon...

(seniors excluded)

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Speaking

of Seniors...

Let's work on

the publication!

It needs to be ready to go

by Friday!

You need your own

writer's page

and the ancillary pages

in the book still need

to be completed.

Make Lemonade.

Friday

Quarter 4, Week 5 of 10

Heads up!

If you didn't turn in Major Project #6

last week,

You need to do it

this week!

Check out

the

Top 100

World Literature

Titles

(click here)

We'll cool it with the Star Trek for a few days...

'Can be a lot to handle...

Like what happened

in the 90s.

THREE series

at the same time

and four movies!

Seniors- I need to

speak with all of you

as a group

about our last publication.

Begin

thinking

about

Major Project #7...

This is your

last one

for the

year.

Monday

Quarter 4, Week 4 of 10

Click this link
and check out the titles.

...we have access to most of these books at Kekaulike.

Choose several to learn more about.

If you want to read it,

go ahead.

If you don't want to read it,

fine.

But, learn something about it.

Maybe you will change your mind

someday.

Grammarly auto-corrected me on someday.

I like some day better.

You should probably

take some notes on

the book(s) you chose.

I bet Mr. Fisher was going for that with this thing...

Hopefully,

you started with a

writing warm-up.

If not,

you're still a good person.

:-)

I Wanna Write You a Song

was playing while I wrote this.

Do you remember that?

It was nice.

Yeah?

Should we watch

more Star Trek?

(Measure of a Man)

Mr. Fisher wanted to read

The Little Prince. Bummer, though.

He couldn't find the copies.

I had a giant gold-leaf copy of this
at one point in my life.
It's gone, now.
I miss it.

The

Institute

for

World

Literature

Harvard

University.

Of course,

there is plenty of

literature from around the world that

IS NOT written in or translated into English.

Discover it on your own,

today

or some day.

I think you have a

major project

to be working on.

Sunday

Quarter 4, Week 3 of 10

So, about that project...

April 9-13

Classwork

Any revisions to your proposal letter need to be made, printed, signed, and resubmitted by the last class of this week.
All Juniors are Smarter Balanced testing this week. Please be cognizant of whether or not you are near a testing room. Also, remain aware that this is pretty darn big deal for all of us. Try not to lay any unnecessary drama at the feet of those students who are testing.
Remain inspired to create every day. Writing warm-ups are not a chore! If they become that, don't do them! Just know that, if you don't warm up, you can hurt yourself- just like in running, weightlifting, or other physical activity!
Listen, feel, smell, and look outside to the mundane, everyday world for ideas. We miss so much rushing from one place to the next. Roses are not the only things to stop and smell: dirt, trees, grass, trash, sea water, streams, ginger, guava, even b/o and poo can inspire us to write using vivid sensory language!

Target Practice: I am ready to draft my major project and understand that discovering the world around me will be my inspiration. Fist-5?

Homework

Continue drafting your project (be aware of the looming due dates ahead)
Think about which project from this year you want to be in the final print publication for the course (we will be choosing before major project seven)
Talk to Mr. Fisher if you are interested in starting a creative writing club next year (underclassmen only)

Discover more! Inspire others to take the creative writing class next year. We have started a great thing at Kekaulike...let's keep it going!