Optional Writing Prompts – Week 1 (CRR#4/QW#32)
Choose one prompt from below and write in your journal (full page), on a google document (turn into Google Classroom) or create a blog entry (300 words minimum).
Prompt 1: A guitar pick, a red balloon, and a wicker basket. Write a short story or a poem that includes these three objects.
Prompt 2: “I was so mortified, I wanted to crawl in a hole!” Write a short narrative (fiction or nonfiction) where this is your first sentence. Illustrate it if you want.
I can’t wait to read your creative writing entries!
Tips for Distance Learning from YOU (Yes, you!)
Hello my wonderful students! I miss seeing you all so very much! Reading through the weekly check-in that was posted on Google Classroom, many of you had some great advice to share about setting a schedule.
Here’s a few excellent tips from you all:
- Just keeping good habits is my best advice.
- Get outside for fresh air!
- Don’t spend the entirety of the closure on video games.
- I would say have an area where you do your school work so you don’t get distracted as much if you were just laying in bed and stuff like that.
- Don’t stay up all night
- Don’t forget to go outside
- Maybe we can make some Quick writes? maybe just writing a small story? Like you give us a scenario to start with and let us choose what happens next and let us decide what characters/people we use? (THIS IS THE NEXT BLOG POST, FYI 🙂
- Don’t stay inside all the time get some fresh air
- If a schedule doesn’t work for you, figure out the problem and fix it. If you don’t have a schedule, I advise making one.
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- Just do your work. This could affect your future if you don’t do some of the work that your teachers give you.
- If you don’t want to fall behind on any work that you need to do, but don’t have the time, do what I did and work every other week. It helps me to take a break before going back and finishing what needs to be done after.
- Develop a schedule that involves academic things and also creative time and go to sleep and wake up at a similar time that you do on a normal school day.
- Find a way to have no distractions, and have a set time for learning in the day.
- Well for one , to look at your missing assignments and do them, for two you can look at some of the teachers emails and things to do.
- “Be positive.
Get organized—and stay organized.
Establish a routine.
Set personal goals.
Make the most of your resources.
Start on track and stay on track.
Limit your time online.
Learn to deal with setbacks.”
SPECIAL BLOG POSTS
Hi Students! You are so missed! I’m looking forward to seeing you all again later this spring. It’s been so good to hear from some of you via email-
a question or even just a quick “Hey Brockett, what’s up?” Stay safe and practice safe social distancing!
If you would like to blog while you are home, (Heads up: upcoming weekly enrichment activities can be blogs, if you choose!) and would like to share your thoughts and feelings in a passion blog, bonus blog, self-selected response, etc. please post to your blogs. This is not an assignment- it’s just for fun, and a way for us to share while we are out of the classroom. Interested? Yay! I’d love to read your thoughts and findings, so please keep posting! If you choose to write a blog, do the following:
- Check out the links for different types of blogs and blog post codes. These are located at the top of MY blog
- Choose a code that works for your type of blog post and then assign it a number. (Example codes: CRR, PB, BB, etc.) For example, if you write a passion blog about how much you love soccer, your title should include PB#1 for your first passion blog, and PB#2 if it’s your second passion blog.
- Keep it school appropriate with your choice of language, content, etc.
- Publish your blog.
- Email me the name of your blog and I’ll check it out and leave a comment!
OR
- I will also create a Google Classroom announcement, and you can post the name of your blog there if you’d like other students to check it out!
FC#4/QW#29 (30-Honors)- Story Starter
Please click on the following link and choose a picture to write a narrative about. Choose the story starter to begin your story.
Periods 1-5 -Add a simile and a hyperbole in your writing.
Period 6- Add an idiom and personification in your writing.
CRR#3 – Traditions
Assignment: Think of one important tradition your family has.
Describe this tradition in detail. Make the tradition come to life using sensory images, figurative language and full descriptions. Make sure that you answer these questions:
- Why is it a tradition NOT a routine? Explain what makes it special.
- Name a specific person that influenced your knowledge about this tradition. I learned about this tradition from ________________________.
- How does this tradition make you feel? What makes it SPECIAL to you personally?
- How does this tradition affect your pride in who you are?
Your blog post must have the following to get full credit:
- at least 350 words
- a creative title AND the blog post code: CRR#3
- at least one image, meme, or gif to visually represent the tradition
EXAMPLE:
CRR#3- The freedom of traditions
“Whoosh” the snow blasts into my face, I can barely feel my nose, and my neck is whipped out of place as my brother jerks the wheel to the right. Our sled teeters to the right about to fall over but I slide my weight to the left to bring us back on the road. I look up ahead to see my mom yelling, “You guys alright?” My brother and I both give a thumbs up as my dad presses the gas accelerate on these back-country mountain roads in Montana.
These are the memories that make me smile, the tradition that my family and I used to have that brings a tear to my eye. I feel pride in the fact that our family was so tight and so adventurous. As I now watch my brother with his kids tearing into their gifts or sledding on a small trail of snow in Washington, I can’t help but feel bad for them that they will never experience the unbridled freedom and flying experience that we had. I am saddened but excited that we had that joy as kids. We used to bring hot cocoa, bundle up with so many clothes reminiscent of the boy in A Christmas Story,
and spend hours looking for the right Christmas tree. The whole drive in the back of the Bitterroot Mountains were untamed wilderness, wild animals for days, and snow! So much -snow! We would take turns driving the sled, an awesome motorcycle looking sled, with 3 skis, a steering wheel, and a long seat.
This booming sled that my uncle had bought for the family could fly like a motorcycle on snow. My father would drive and Jay, my brother, and I would take turns steering over snow banks and back down again, reminiscent of snowboard on a halfpipe.
When we finally spotted the perfect tree, we would trudge up the hill with our saw and all carry the perfect one down as if escorting a funeral procession.
These memories are especially meaningful because my brother and I have moved to Washington, my father no longer celebrates Christmas due to his religion, and we have new memories to make with new children and new states. Yet, everytime I think of growing up in Montana, the cold feeling of snow on my fingertips, the exciting feeling of being pushed into the air only to land on a blanket of marshmallows- I can’t help but smile.
SSR#2 (Honors SSR#5)- Write a Review
We will use the questions below to help us write our own:
- What type of info do they share?
- How much fact/opinion should there be?
- What purpose do reviews serve?
- How do YOU use reviews in your life?
Click below to view the slideshow we used in class:
Review the review– Use this sheet to read and analyze what professional reviewers include in their genre. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N4pTM1JNp72rP5dbf_tbbsYeVZZ5fEOQVCdg40ASoj0/edit
We’ll use this information to inform our own writing!
2) After analyzing three reviews and filling out the document, begin writing your own. Remember pictures, videos, and music add to the effect!
SSR #1 (#5 Honors) – HOLIDAY BREAK: Choose Your Prompt
Choose any one of the writing prompts from the list.
Get creative with your voice and descriptions!
❄❆❆ Write 200-600 words. ❄❆❆
❄❆❆ Add images or media to help with your message! ❄
- Write a poem about winter. How does the air feel? What sounds do you hear?
- Write about your favorite holiday story or movie. Why do you enjoy it?
- Are there any parts of winter/the holiday season that are hard or difficult? How do you handle them?
- Write a story about a partying penguin named Peter.
- What does it mean to have holiday spirit? Do you feel like you’ve experienced it this year? Why or why not?
- Who do you know who has been especially good this year? Write about what you’d like to do for that person.
- Write a story about an adventurous pair of friends who travel to a neighborhood made entirely of gingerbread houses.
Investigate Your Way of Thinking – CRR#3
For many of us, our intelligence is directly tied to our sense of self or identity.
For some, the labels we are given (gifted, high achiever, straight A student, highly capable) influence how we navigate our learning and our world.
The ways we reflect on our achievement, learning styles, strengths and challenges can help us understand both the benefits and pressures of school and life.
Use the links below to assess your personality type, learning style, multiple intelligences, and whether you are right-brained or left brained. TAKE NOTES TO HELP YOU DETERMINE YOUR CRR BLOG ENTRY.
16 Personalities– https://www.16personalities.com/
Personality Max– https://personalitymax.com/personality-test/
True Colors — https://my-personality-test.com/true-colours
Myers-Briggs type http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Enneagram Personality Test https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test
RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES
True Colors Activity: https://fye.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/435/2016/08/True-Colors-Activity.pdf
Enneagram Song and Story: Search atlas: enneagram album by sleeping at last in YOUTUBE and find your number. Play this song to explain your story.
Based on the research you have done, how would you describe your intelligence and how does this fit into your identity?
Write a Class Related Response Blog that explores how at least 1 identified intelligence and how it plays a part of who you are- think about your strengths, what you enjoy doing, etc.,
Use photos, images, charts, videos, music, etc. that you think show your interests and strengths and how these interests/strengths connect with your identity. Be creative!
Requirements:
- Title: CRR#3 and a title that creatively shows how your intelligence fits in with your identity
- Word Count: minimum 250 words
- Must have an image/GIF/video that show your STRENGTHS!
Blog Post #2 – QW#13 (FC) Freewrite Tuesday
Please click on the following link and choose a picture to write a narrative about. Choose the story starter to begin your story. Add a simile and a hyperbole in your writing.
Ms. Brockett
World According to Brockett 