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!