Wednesday Wanderings

 Attend Virutal Town Meeting

Work on poetry and turn in poems (Sound and Golden Shovel) for Friday workshop.

Golden Shovel Poem

 3. Introduce the "Golden Shovel Poem" and Terrance Hayes

From Writer's Digest: Golden Shovel: Poetic Form By: Robert Lee Brewer | June 24, 2014 Earlier this year, I came across a mention of the “golden shovel” form created by Terrance Hayes and made a note to check it out. I’m so happy I did, because it’s a fun poetic form. HERE ARE THE RULES FOR THE GOLDEN SHOVEL: Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire. Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem. Keep the end words in order. Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines). The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words. If you pull a line with six words, your poem would be six lines long. If you pull a stanza with 24 words, your poem would be 24 lines long. And so on. If it’s still kind of abstract, read these two poems to see how Terrance Hayes used a Gwendolyn Brooks poem to write the first golden shovel: We Real Cool, by Gwendolyn Brooks (original poem) The Golden Shovel, by Terrance Hayes (golden shovel poem) As you can see, the original golden shovel takes more than a line from the poem. In fact, it pulls every word from the Brooks poem, and it does it twice. This form is sort of in the tradition of the cento and erasure, but it offers a lot more room for creativity than other found poetry. ***** Workshop your poetry! HERE’S MY ATTEMPT AT A GOLDEN SHOVEL: “Aging Well,” by Robert Lee Brewer -after Basho as translated by Allen Ginsberg The funny thing about growing old is you never know how to respond until after the fact. Like a frog that sits and then eventually jumps there’s absolutely no thought given to the process. You’re young; then, kerplunk! https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/what-is-a-golden-shovel-with-peter-kahn/ www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/golden-shovel-poetic-form https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55678/the-golden-shovel https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/92023/introduction-586e948ad9af8 4. Write a Golden Shovel poem: Resources: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems?page=4 HOMEWORK: Create a "Golden Shovel poem" for Friday workshop

Sound Elements in Poetry

 1. Review last class assignment

Homework: Finish your imitation poem and upload/post for credit today or receive a missing grade! Finish your sound poem for Tuesday and upload/post on this assignment page 2. Sound Elements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7a5JSNeyqI Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopeia 3. Go to website: https://poetryhandbooksummer.blogspot.com/p/summer-exercises.html 4. Activity: Do the exercises on the website for exploring sound. Try to compose a poem. Be sure to finish exercise from last class and post for credit by today.

Response to Jericho Brown

 4. Jericho Brown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M0_eGmHWY https://poets.org/poem/tradition First Quickwrite : Post a comment about this poem (5 minutes) for participation credit on the padlet see padlet below DISCUSS

Response to Jericho Brown

https://padlet.com/10538811/2lijdri1tj4yxpn9

Welcome Back, Sophomores!

 

Welcome Back, Sophomores!

AGENDA:

Welcome Back

1. Introduction/Review Course Criteria/

Sign on and star Blog: craftofwriting2015/blogspot.com
attach Grammarly
Go back to Google Classroom  

2. About Mary Oliver

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver

3. Exercise: Poetry Imitation--Imitate a Mary Oliver Poem
https://projectreadutah.blogspot.com/2009/02/imitatingcopying-poetry.html

The Deer

You never know.
The body of night opens
like a river, it drifts upward like white smoke,

like so many wrappings of mist.
And on the hillside two deer are walking along
just as though this wasn’t

the owned, tilled earth of today
but the past.
I did not see them the next day, or the next,

but in my mind’s eye –
there they are, in the long grass,
like two sisters.

This is the earnest work.  Each of us is given
only so many mornings to do it –
to look around and love

the oily fur of our lives,
the hoof and the grass-stained muzzle.
Days I don’t do this

I feel the terror of idleness,
like a red thirst.
Death isn’t just an idea.

When we die the body breaks open
like a river;
the old body goes on, climbing the hill.

~ Mary Oliver ~

5.More about writing poetry:
https://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-poem.html

Week #4 MP4--Work-in-Progress MultiGenre Project

AGENDA:

Work-in-progress-- MultiGenre Projects
I hope you are doing well. I have not heard from many of you, and you need to try to make contact so that I know you are okay (even if you are having difficulty getting work done)! I miss you and care about you. I keep checking your grades to see if you are at least getting work done for other classes.

1. This is the second week of working on your project at home by doing the writing , drawing, collecting images, creating documents, and/or taking photographs, etc. You can be so creative with this and show off all your writing abilities in different genres.

Next week (Week 5) , May 18-22, will involve presentations on Zoom.
FINAL PORTFOLIOS will be due June 8 (instructions to come)
Send Senior Coffeehouse videos to Linden Burack by May 15.

2. Please UPLOAD at least 4 items for your multigenre project by this Friday, May 15, in Google Classroom for grading this week.
I will also post a "checking in" assignment for classroom credit.
You also receive credit for attending Zoom Office Hours--Thursday, 11 am.

3. Feel free to email me with questions and concerns.
It looks like grades for this marking period will be: PD (Pass w/ Distinction, 85-100), P (65-84), INC (has not met the standards for this course). If this is a semester course for you, you may not receive 1/2 credit for it and cannot redo it in the summer.

Stay well and safe!

Week 3 MP4--Assignment #3--WORK ON PROJECT/REPETEND

AGENDA:
Work on your projects at home.  Upload text, images, "artifacts" and other elements of your work to show your progress to Google Classroom for FRIDAY, May 8.

FIND A REPETEND FOR YOUR PROJECT:

What is a Repetend?

Because multi-genre projects are unique and non-linear, they require a lot of work from a reader.  You, as a conscientious writer, do not want to let your reader get confused as they move from genre to genre. If you provide your reader with reoccurring images or phrases, or a running commentary or even a narrative or story, you will create unity that will help your reader better understand your central theme. This can be much like making sure to weave your thesis throughout a traditional essay paper. We will use a repetend to provide that link among the elements of your project.

A repetend is a repeated phrase and/or image that is used in every genre of your multigenre project.  Repetends help to connect all of the pieces and are sometimes used to convey the message of the paper.  

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Ways to incorporate repetend in your multi-genre project:

• include the same phrase, sentence, or passage on each genre page as a heading or somewhere else in the text
• include a description or design in each piece (written or graphic), placed strategically for easy recognition

• create a character and follow his/her reactions to pieces

• create a character involved somehow in each piece of writing--an ongoing little story
• create a cartoon strip at the top or bottom of each genre page that comments on the ideas presented

Repetend Used: "And the beat goes on"  "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."  Tree, extended metaphor (seed, roots, branches)  Visual: Baby footprint  "The Land of Opportunity"  "Shattering Love or Seeking Justice"

Paper Topic: Woodstock  Neil Armstrong  Alvin Ailey  Abortion  Family History Project  Capital Punishment

http://shepardacademyjuniorblockspring.weebly.com/creating-a-repetend.html

More resources:
https://www.mshogue.com/ce9/multi_genre/multigenre.htm

Week 2/MP4--Weekly assignment #2--OUTLINE!

AGENDA:

I hope you are doing well!  Come to our Zoom meeting on Monday at 11am.  Office hours are on Thursday at 11am and I will open it up to everyone in the waiting room.  Email me with questions and concerns.  Grades are finalized on Tuesday, but I'm not accepting any new work for MP3 (that closed on Friday 4/24).

Prepare an outline for your project and begin working on the project (writing and artifacts). DUE DATE: Friday, May 1

Look over the example outline on the pdf attached to the assignment on Google Classroom.  Also, look at the other document attached for how to organize your outline.  Get very specific!

Miss you.  Stay well!

Extra Credit---BOA Event

BOA Is Here Virtual Poetry Salon Celebrate National Poetry Month from the comfort of your own living room with BOA's first ever virtual poetry salon! Tune in to hear readings, stories, and more from seven BOA poets with new books from BOA Editions. We hope you'll join us! Event Details Time, Date, Place: 8:00–8:30 PM Eastern, Tuesday, April 28, simultaneous premiere on Facebook and YouTube. Videos will be archived on both platforms for on-demand viewing. Admission: Free, no registration required. Closed captioned. Follow BOA on Facebook to get a reminder or subscribe to our YouTube channel to get a notification when the salon premieres! Featured Poets Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse (BOA, 2019). Her work is rooted in her experiences growing up Mexican-American, and she is a member of the Canto Mundo and Macondo writing communities. She currently resides in Tucson, where she is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. Deborah Paredez is a poet, performance scholar, and cultural critic whose writing explores the workings of memory, the legacies of war, and feminist elegy. She is the author of Year of the Dog (BOA, 2020). Born and raised in San Antonio, She lives in New York City where she is a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University. Matt Morton is the author of Improvisation Without Accompaniment (BOA, 2020), which won the 18th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He serves as associate editor for 32 Poems and is a Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas. He lives in Dallas, TX. Rick Bursky is the author of Let's Become a Ghost Story (BOA, 2020) and I’m No Longer Troubled By the Extravagance (BOA, 2015). Originally from New York City, Bursky lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program. Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rue (BOA, 2020) and the James Laughlin Award-winning The End of Pink (BOA, 2016). After spending many years directing Pleiades Press, she now teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Minnesota and lives with her family in The Twin Cities. John Gallaher is the author of Brand New Spacesuit (BOA, 2020) and In A Landscape (BOA, 2014). He is also the co-author with G.C. Waldrep of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA, 2011), which was written in collaboration almost entirely through email. He is the co-editor of The Laurel Review and The Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics. He lives in Marysville, Missouri, where he is an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University. Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of Cyborg Detective (BOA, 2019) and The Book of Goodbyes (BOA, 2013), which won the Isabella Gardner Award and the James Laughlin Award. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan. Stay tuned to the end of the broadcast for a special treat from BOA's video archives!

Proposals for Projects DUE

Please post on Google Classroom for WEEK 1 MP4 credit.

Reminder: MultiGenre Project proposals due tomorrow

AGENDA:

Just a reminder to post your proposals for the project on Google Classroom.  That's where I can give you feedback on your project.  You can always email me with questions and thoughts (I'd love to hear from you!).
Office hour meetings are on Thursdays at 11am, and Mr. Craddock and I will have a whole Creative Writing meeting on next Monday at 11am (a chance to meet everyone in the department). Invites forthcoming.

Stay well.  Miss you.

Marking Period 4/Multi Genre Project

AGENDA:

Welcome to a new marking period.  I hope you are staying healthy and well. Remember you can still send me any missing and extra credit work on Google Classroom this week. Lots of extra credit for your grade for MP3.

So, let's look at this marking period.

Assignment:  Week 1--Due Friday, 4/24  Your detailed proposal turned in on Google Classroom!

We're going to be working on a multigenre project that will ask you to write a 5 page historical short story along with many linking "artifacts" that help explain and add to the story world that you build.  I've uploaded all the information on Google Classroom for you to read and follow.  This is a four to five week project for you to work on at home, culminating in presentations to classmates over Zoom. 

This week is time for you to brainstorm your project and write out a detailed proposal.  Think about your characters, setting (place/time), and the plot.  What accurate historical research will you have to do to make the story believable and create "artifacts" that fill in the background of the story.

Here's an excerpt from the instructions of the project:

"The Multi-genre project is a great assessment tool for 9th-12th grade students! It is designed to ignite a student's creativity while writing a work of fiction that is historically accurate. For example, I have my students choose a war in history to base their project off of. This project allows them to apply all of the literary elements we have studied from plot, to character analysis, to theme, while writing their story. Students also have to research the war they have chosen to center their project around and present it in a format that ties into their story.  I recommend completing this project over a six week period with multiple check-in points where students conference with you about their progress. On the day the project is due, students present their work to the class by giving a brief overview of their work. I then give the students two days to perform a gallery walk and get lost in each other's stories. "

And here are some examples of the genres you can choose from (check Google Classroom for the complete instructions):

Genre Examples

Diary/journal entry  
Song lyrics Tickets Flash backs Draft card Letters Poem Pilots log Brochure Advertisement/billboard Newspaper article Magazine article 
Evidence files Blue prints Painting Puzzle Passport Artifacts Flyers ID's Receipts Recipes Photographs 

A Brief List of Genres:
Journal Entries
Personal Letter
Greeting Card
Schedule/Things to Do List
Inner Monologue Representing Internal Conflicts
Classified or Personal Ads
Personal Essay or Philosophical Questions
Top Ten List/Glossary or Dictionary
Poetry
Song Lyrics
Autobiographical Essay
Contest Entry Application
Business Letter or Correspondence/Persuasive or Advocacy Letter
Biographical Summary
Critique of a Published Source
Speech or Debate
Historical Times Context Essay
Textbook Article
Science Article or Report/Business Article or Report
Lesson Plan
Encyclopedia Article
Short Scene from a Play with Notes for Stage Directions
Short Scene from a Movie with Notes for Camera Shots
Dialogue of a Conversation among Two or More People
Short Story
Adventure Magazine Story
Ghost Story
Myth, Tall Tale, or Fairy Tale
Talk Show Interview or Panel
Recipe and Description of Traditional Holiday Events
Classroom Discussion
Character Analysis or Case Study
Comedy Routine or Parody
Liner Notes
Picture book
Chart or Diagram with Explanation and Analysis
Brochure or Newsletter
Time Line or Chain of Events
Map with Explanation and Analysis
Magazine or TV Advertisement or Infomercial
Restaurant Description and Menu
Travel Brochure Description
How-To or Directions Booklet
Receipts, Applications, Deeds, Budgets or Other Documents
Wedding, Graduation or Special Event Invitation
Birth Certificate
Local News Report
Pop-Up book
Review and Poster for a Movie, Book, or TV Program
Board Game or Trivial Pursuit with Answers and Rules
Comic Strip or Graphic Novel excerpt
Power Point Presentation
Informational Video
Web Site
Future News Story
Letter to the Editor
Newspaper or Magazine Feature/Human Interest Story
Obituary, Eulogy or Tribute
News Program Story or Announcement
Tabloid Article

Students must choose one main form of writing genre to reuse repeatedly throughout their project to explain their story and keep it flowing.  This one form of writing genre only counts as one of their ten even though they are going to use it multiple times throughout their project."


The complete assignment has been posted on Google Classroom.  Be sure to post on Google Classroom when you complete a weekly assignment and be sure to cite your sources.  Keep a record of your research!

Let me know if you have any questions about the assignment and start brainstorming!  The time period you use does not have to be a war, but should provide a good background for your story.

Stay well.  I miss you.

Grades MP3 and new work for MP4

AGENDA:
I hope you are doing well.  I am so sorry your year has been so cruelly affected like this. Please know that I miss you so much.

The marking period ends today, but I still can accept missing work and extra credit assignments for this marking for one more week. Hooray!
Grades will be calculated on all your assigned work turned in (or not) by March 13.

IMPORTANT: I am giving a 10/10 for any and all blog posts for reading and writing assignments after that date.
PLEASE, please take advantage of this and post on the blog or in Google classroom as appropriate.
You will be happy you did! Your grade will be raised a lot! Email me and let me know what you post.

Marking Period 4 begins on Monday and I will be posting new reading and writing assignments.  I also want to have Zoom meetings to share our thoughts and writings, maybe once a week.  Let me know when you are available, or I'll just schedule a meeting, invite you and see who shows up!

Stay well...let me know if you have questions or concerns.  You can chat with each other on Google Classroom, too!

End of marking period FRIDAY 4/17

AGENDA:

Reminder to get your missing work in and any extra credit work.  Upload work to google Classroom and email me with any questions!  If you have writing that you have done over the past couple of weeks, be sure to post it so that you can get a good grade with the extra credit!

Stay well.  Miss you!

2nd person Short Stories due by 4/17

AGENDA:

I need to hear from you by email or by posting on the blog or on Google classroom!

Just a reminder that this is the last week of the marking period!

While I have posted on the blog and on Google Classroom several assignments you can work on, you are still responsible for completing the assignment "Writing in the 2nd person Short Story" and uploading it on Google Classroom for assessment while we are continuing instruction.

There is also a Free Writing assignment which can count as extra credit for you.  Any additional writing in any genre that you do can be uploaded there.  I will be very generous with extra credit!

Please upload your work, check the blog and Google Classroom and stay well!  Miss you...


Here is the earlier post about writing in the 2nd person:

Writing in 2nd person/Lorrie Moore

AGENDA:

AGENDA:

Read aloud Lorrie Moore stories



Lorrie Moore on Writing:
https://lithub.com/lorrie-moore-its-better-to-write-than-be-a-writer/

https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/5-writing-tips-from-lorrie-moore/

Writing in the Second Person

Writing in the Second Person POV
What is the Second Person?

Excellent blog post:
http://www.eclecticeditor.com/2012/10/effective-narration-101-second-person-narration/



An example from
www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1200131-That-Second-Person


Let us talk about writing, just me and you. Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable. Pour a cup of joe, or whatever your favorite poison is. Settle in and we'll get down to the nitty gritty. I can go on for hours about this writing business, but I won't take up too much of your time today. Writing is one my favorite subjects. I'm thinking it might be yours too. Why do I think it might be yours? Well, you're here aren't you? That's a pretty good indication. I could be wrong though, and I'm more than willing to admit that. But let's talk a bit if you don't mind.

See this paragraph above? That's one way to use the second person properly, when directly addressing someone. I'm addressing you, the reader and possible writer, directly. The paragraph is written with a specific audience in mind, not a general one. I blame my first college professor for my pet peeve about the misuse of the second person. He pounded it into my freshmen skull many years ago that "you" had no place in any essay except for extraordinary circumstances. When I had him again for nearly every other English class, that lesson was simply emphasized in other writings. Other professors touched on it in literature, but he really sent it home.

I mostly blame advertisement for the misuse of the second person in new writing. I don't know how many times I have driven my family to distraction because I've absentmindedly disagreed with an advertisement. Listen to those things sometime - advertisements. Most of them are trying to target a specific market, but the way the commercials are written is so broad. The net thrown tries to catch as many people as possible. The public at large is included in the message. "You" is inclusive. The message is worded so everyone hearing it is led to believe they need that product or service by the simple use of that one little word. It's no wonder beginning writers use it in their writing; they're exposed to it constantly.
Another reason some beginning writers use the second person incorrectly is because they are "telling the tale." Most people learn to talk before they learn to write, and more people are better at telling stories than writing them. When beginning writers start to write the stories in their heads, often things become lost in the translation. Oral telling is different than the written word, and some writers don't make the distinction between what's said and what's written. When storytellers have an audience in front of them, they can say "It's so black that you can't see your hand in front of your face..." or "...the wind's so cold it'll cut right through ya." Storytellers talk directly to their audience. Even if the audience doesn't "feel" the cold, the use of the second person can bring them deeper into the story.


It can be done; Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tim Robbins is a fictional novel written in second person, and there are several short stories which use the second person well, but they are rare. Also, the "choose your own adventure" genre of fiction has often been written in second person. Now that the Internet is so well established, interactive stories and many role playing forums are perfect homes for fictional stories that incorporate the second person.

In non-fiction writing, the use of the second person is commonplace. As in this opening sentence from Take Control of Your Sales by Sonya Carmichael Jones, "Regardless of your writing genre, marketing is the primary means by which your book sales are generated." This article addresses a specific audience, the book writer who wants to sell books. By inserting "you" into the article, the author attempts to draw the writer in and make the article personal. Such casual writing is routine nowadays. However, the above sentence could just have easily been written, "Regardless of genre, marketing is the primary means by which book sales are generated." Both are correct, it's simply a matter of preference.


If used properly, use of the second person can draw the reader into a piece like no other word. Such as this statement: "If you're one of the millions of people in the United States who has ever..." It is written directly to a specific audience. It attempts to hook that audience immediately. Hopefully, anyone who falls into the category of the article will read the rest of article with interest. Those who do not fall under the umbrella of whatever the article covers will most likely not read it. However, since they are not the intended audience, the use of the second person has fulfilled a purpose as well.

Using the second person is the easy way, but it can alienate half the readers in the blink of an eye. Consider an article written about some extreme sport where the author has written "... and you feel the rush of wind screaming through your hair. This is why you dig freefall, the rush..." Well, there went all of his sensitive bald readers and anyone who's never felt freefall, or those who don't "dig" it.

Using the second person can be a very powerful tool in an author's toolkit. But if it's used incorrectly it can gum up the works good and proper. Generally, try not to use the second person in an essay or a fictional story that is not aimed at a specific audience. There are always exceptions of course. What would this wonderful language be without exceptions? In my opinion, there are ways to get around using the second person - notice how I have not used it since the first paragraph except in quotations? A writer simply has to be creative. It's more fun that way. Is there a better way to enhance writing skills than finding more creative ways to say things? I can't think of one.

Well, I enjoyed this time with you. I hope you did too. Thanks for coming by and listening to me voice my opinion. It was a blast. I've got to get on to other things, but I hope you'll stop by again soon.

Take care.
from
www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1200131-That-Second-Person


Group #1 Wikipedia on second person narrative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-person_narrative

Group #2 Why you should write in 2nd person:
http://thewritepractice.com/second-person/
Group #3 Writing in second person:
http://www.chuffedbuffbooks.com/writing-in-second-person-atwood-to-tolstoy/

Two more short stories in 2nd person
http://42opus.com/shortstory/secondperson

And more
http://www.goodreads.com/story/tag/second-person

Lorrie Moore:
http://www.shortstoryproject.com/how-to-talk-to-your-mother-notes/


http://juked.com/2013/02/micah-stack-how-to-write-a-story.asp

and Italo Calvino
http://www.tcomer.faculty.defiance.edu/calvino/ifon.htm

and Junot Diaz:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/alma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDE3_XvS9ok

https://www.bookish.com/articles/the-power-of-you-5-stories-written-in-second-person/