Honors+Writing+for+Publication

=Posted 5/9= Your script is due Monday the 5/12. This is a firm deadline! Please bring two copies of your script to class (stapled). Pay close attention to the requirements in the attached rubric. Have fun with it! = = =Posted 4/30= Title your page Relationship and Playwrighting. Use an MLA heading please. Follow the directions on the attachment below. One character is due 4/30 as discussed in class and one is due Thursday, 5/1. =Posted 4/24= Please complete the homework due 4/24 for Friday if you have not do so as yet. For each of your characters, write their name, their wants and the obstacles that get in the way of their achieving what they desire. Also, for one character only, write a discovery for each of the possibilities below: A discovery... 1. May be about the other character 2. Or about yourself 3. or about someone who is offstage 4. or about the situation now or the situation as it existed 10 years ago, and how that effects the NOW. =Posted 4/23= Homework due Thursday, April 24, 2014. Use your Philly Young Playwright’s script to TYPE the following: List your characters names, their goals, and the obstacles in their way. Be specific and concise. Make both interesting and make the stakes high! Goal/Goals Obstacles Goal/goals Obstacles = = =Posted 4/8=
 * 1) Character’s Name
 * 1) Character’s Name
 * 1) Character’s Name (etc.)

=Follow the Philly Young Playwrights directions for script formatting using the handout I distributed. The rubric we've been using to brainstorm your scene has the ingredients you'll need to make your script memorable.=

Go to [|www.artandwriting.org] and read two of the dramatic writing selections. Write a 500-word reflection that references both selections by title and incorporates quotations from each. These will be due April 23rd. Use break if it helps you to balance other work.

=Posted 3/23= Writers, please type a final draft of your narrative. Your goal is to use setting (time, place and weather) to enhance a narrative that includes suspense (see attachment for particulars on setting and suspense), 1 1/2 pages. Always include conflict and don't forget the tri-level bone structure of characters. How fully realized are your characters? Do they interest us enough to read on? Does the suspense intrigue us? Does your setting contribute to the narrative's tone? ==

=Posted 3/13=

Due Friday, 3/14: **Irony and Society poem** Irony is a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. //Verbal irony// occurs when someone says one thing but means another. //Situational irony// exists when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of someone’s expectations. =Posted 3/7= For one of your characters that you did the bone structure for, I want you to turn that "list" into a narrative about the character for Monday, 3/10 The other character should be done for Wednesday, 3/12. = = =Posted 2/7= Expectations for class everyday. When the bell rings, I expect that you'll be in your seat with your portfolio open and the text book at the ready. No phones are to be seen. We have wonderful writing work to do and we will start with a writing prompt. Please use the bathroom at lunch. Homework for Monday, February 10th. Please head your paper correctly with the MLA format below. Your name Mrs. Favin Honors Writing for Publication/Advanced Creative Writing (the class that applies to you) - period 6 10 February 2014
 * Your task: Use verbal or situational irony to reveal something about today’s society.**
 * Include alliteration, assonance and consonance. If you wish to use end rhyme you may.**
 * 12 line minimum. Please give your poem an MLA heading with a centered creative title that includes the subtitle below: Irony and Society poem**

Your paper should have a centered creative title. Subtitle it: A Sensory-Rich Place in Nature Poem Write a poem (one of the ten, which you will write for your collection). See attachment for directions. As I mentioned in class before you left Friday, the quiz on //Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape// by Barry Lopez will address his writerly moves. You will have the text to work with in class as you answer. Scholastic winners: Please come prepared for your photo to be taken for the newspaper at the START of 6th period.

=Posted 1/31= Homework due Monday, Feb. 3rd Please head your paper correctly with the MLA format below. Your name Mrs. Favin Honors Writing for Publication/Advanced Creative Writing (the class that applies to you) - period 6 03 February 2014

Your paper should have a centered title: Two Tri-Dimensional Bone Structure Character Sketches Subtitle it: The Art of Dramatic Writing Your two character sketches do NOT need to be typed, but I DO want them to be fully fleshed out. Make them as interesting as possible, so that you'll enjoy putting them in conflict! All the best.

=Posted 1/17= Homework due Wednesday, Jan. 22 All of your Gary Garrison's index cards are due filled out for class. Come prepared to handwrite your scene in class. See the attachment for what the index cards should have on them. = =

=Got Play? Write a 2-person SCENE with your hand-picked 5-card shuffle "cards". You may have a third character but NO MORE.= =Got Play? Due Monday, January 13th, 2014=

1. Your page should be set up with an MLA heading and have a centered creative title. 2. Next, you want to name and give a brief character description for each of your scene's characters. (See the Philly Young Playwright handout I distributed Friday for how to set up your page). Accuracy in this matters! Plays are rejected without being read if the formatting isn't as required! A Rubric will follow! 3. Locate us physically with a description of where the action is taking place. Include a weather condition and time of day.

4. Then, start in the middle of things. Remember how immediately we were introduced to the //shady// nature of the twenty something in the "Cool Guy at the Mall" scene.
5. Include EACH of the FOUR ASPECTS of CHARACTERIZATION. You're responsible for these. They're in your notes. 6. Explore the MOTIVES of characters. 7. If your scene was part of a larger play, it would be the ending (so we should see some resolutions or be able to predict the ending).

Have fun writing your scene! Come in with it stapled and ready to workshop. Bring TWO COPIES if you want credit. EN JOY! Got Play? Due Monday, January 13th, 2014

Writings due Tuesday, January 7th, 2014



In class writing, Thursday, Jan. 2nd. If you missed, class complete this, please and may the New Year bring blessings!

Homework due Monday, November 18, 2013. Take the "secret" that you were given in class and write a 15-minute flash fiction piece with it. Please remember there will be no late credit going forward unless you've been absent. You wish to write so embrace your possibilities and come prepared. Thanks!

Log typed first draft due tomorrow, Friday, November 14, 2013! Please see attachment. Thanks for giving it your best!

Register for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Go to [|www.artandwriting.org]. Next, go to poetryoutloud.org and choose a poem that you love. You'll be performing it later so be sure you're passionate about it. Be prepared to pull it up on the website for Monday's class. Enjoy your weekend!
 * Honors Writing for Publication: Please copy and paste the monologue worksheet above into a new word document and answer the questions fully based on your existing monologue. When you discover there is no answer based on your monologue then invent one. Save all work and print out 2 copies for Thursday's class: one for me and one for your portfolio. Your rewritten monologue is due typed and double-spaced (2 copies also) Friday. Thanks!**
 * Homework for Tuesday, October 1st**
 * Print a copy of your Poetry Out Loud poem. Annotate the page so that examples of alliteration and assonance are identified in the poem.**
 * Homework for Monday, September 30th:**



Please write a reflection in response to the work you've been doing in and out of class on Spoken Word Poetry (Slam Poetry). I'd like you to include a response to how well you feel we're working together as a unified whole. Are we working at the top of our intelligence? Are we losing time and, if so, what that's about? Explain how you feel about having a midterm and final and whether you believe that will help reinforce the learning since this is an elective and you "signed up" to write. I'm assuming that everyone has ideas they wish to express. Do you believe I'm correct in that assumption? Your reflection should be 500 words, double-spaced and 12 pt. font. Give your reflection a creative title and the correct MLA heading followed by a word count. Thanks and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
 * Homework due Thursday, September 26th.**

Homework due Wednesday, September 18th, 2013. First, I’d like you to find the text for your chosen slam and bring it to class. If you can’t find it, I’ll cry. Just kidding! Then please watch one slam you haven’t seen before and identify 5 writerly moves you find. You will be asked to present your work out to the class so dig deep! Look for metaphors, personification, alliteration, assonance, consonance etc.

2012-2013 Assignments Norman Mailer high school Creative Non-Fiction Writing Award Competition deadline: NOON APRIL 1st (tomorrow!) Click on the link below to create your account and upload your submission. Thanks and best wishes for continued success in your ability to take risks in your writing and to meet real-world deadlines. This is a high caliber contest so kudos to you for scaling new heights!

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Homework for Monday, January 14, 2013. Please type your completed Early Memory: Child as Narrator and Reminiscent Narrator pieces. Look at your handout for the word count and meet it. Place the count at the top of your page. Thanks!

Here is the Work Audit due Friday, Dec. 21 OR the first day you're back after break. Please do a word count (500-600 words) and add it to your heading. Thanks!



Everyone, I realize now that the short story requirements I uploaded from my mac at home last night do not open on my school pc. I promise by 5:30 p.m. I'll reload it. I have a meeting after school or I would do it sooner. Meanwhile, the rubric I gave you in class is the one I plan to use with the additional requirements outlined in the short story rubric addition below. I think you'll benefit from the student responses below as well. Thanks! Relax and write a story. Do your best, but try and enjoy the experience!

Short Stories due Thursday, November 29th. See below for details.







Below is the homework for Mon. 11/26 to Fri. 11/30/12. See Bedford link below. Also, you would benefit greatly by reading a gold-winner or two. Here's the link for your poetry work! [|**http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Virtualit/poetry/irony_def.html**]




 * Due Friday, November 9th are your two free writes: My goal is to expose you to aspects of good story telling through these**
 * exercises, which will then give you fodder for a good fully fleshed out short story.**
 * 1. The Inner Life of Characters exercise p. 143. We worked 15 minutes in class on this and I asked you to write for another 20**
 * minutes for homework to extend the in-class writing experience. I do not expect that the piece will be finished, but that the idea**
 * will be explored.**
 * 2. From Situation to Plot p. 98. Again, I ask that you free write for 20 minutes into a story idea that answers the questions mapped**
 * out on the handout. The focus of this exercise is to complicate the character's life with opposing forces that create a situation where**
 * the character has alternatives they may act upon.**

See Crafting a Dynamic Scene Rubric below. Please turn in your final draft stapled on top of your first draft. Be prepared to turn in your freewrite of Monday's "Inner Life" exercise separately. Thank you! Also look at the link below for the formatting you need. Here's to quality revisions! Good luck!
 * Due Thursday, November 8th** is your rewritten scene that now includes inner life for your characters.

Please revise your literary letters for Monday using the Qualities of a Good Literary Letter and the Literary Letter Rubric.
 * Honors Writing for Publication homework for Monday, November 5th**







Emily found the link below helpful for script formatting! Use this site if it works well for you. Thanks! []

Princeton's 10-minute play contest: Deadline March 30th, 2011 []

Read what NYCplaywrights have to say about writing 10 minute plays: [|www.nycplaywrights.org] The Norman Mailer High School Fiction Writing Contest. Submissions: March 1 to April 30th []


 * Busker book contents**
 * 1) Preface to Busker Book[[file:Busker book preface.doc]][[file:In the Wind-1.pdf]]
 * 2) My Word
 * 3) I Remember
 * 4) Expanded Secret
 * 5) Illot Mollo
 * 6) Story Machine
 * 7) Open Letter
 * 8) Three word pass
 * 9) Flash fiction
 * 10) Chant Poem
 * 11) Acrostic
 * 12) How to …

Hello creative ones! I realize now that I'm running into the same issue that happened Friday when I tried to post Collum's In the Wind busker book. My computer won't let me attach the file at the moment. I've alerted our tech rep. Anyway, I'll show you In the Wind in class tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!

For those of you who need to write your chant poems. See below. I've copied and pasted what we looked at in class together since I can't attach anything to the wiki at the moment. I'm sure if you google chant poems you'll find other worthy examples to follow. Have fun. Write something meaninful for yourself.

Chant Poems draw on the ancient roots of poetry. Anthropologists speculate that poetry –as distinct from speech—probably began in religious ceremonies, perhaps around a fire, to accompany dance. Nonsense syllables chanted rhythmically may have been the first poems. These vocalizations grew into song, and song and poem are at base the same—including the use of repetition. Songs today still use repetition of words and phrases. Repetition establishes rhythm and enchants the listener. But without variety, repetition gets boring. Repetition and variety are a good example of opposites that can coexist and even strengthen each other. Pick a word, phrase or idea and write it down. Start playing with it on paper, making up your own ways of “keeping it in the air.” I hate Hate strange Strange people People only Only smoke Smoke little Little lines Lines white White shades Shades darken Darken shores Shores swish Swish bowl Bowl burning Burning furiously Furiously I Lola Benjamin (12th grade)
 * Chant Poems **
 * Repeating and Changing are the keys to chant poems. **

Here's mine if you wish to take a look:


 * Sisters**
 * There are 3 of us**


 * There are 3**


 * There are 3 of us**


 * Hurting**
 * There are 3**


 * There are 3 of us**


 * Hoping, hurt**


 * There are 3**


 * Hungry, hoping, hurt**


 * There are 3 of us**


 * Wishful wanting**


 * 3 hungry, wishful,**


 * watchfull, waiting**


 * wanting**


 * will I**


 * will she**


 * will**


 * All will,**


 * Not me**
 * Only she**


 * Not three**


 * Just one**

Haiku contest link: [|www.scholastic.com/dellhaiku] Look at Haiku for People on the contest flyer under Haiku Gallery. I think it will help you write your haiku. Express your creative souls!
 * Hungry, hurt, waiting**
 * 11/13/11**





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