Flash Fiction stories/Study guides/ end of marking period

AGENDA:

Morning Reflection: Aalaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2NDQOgGycg

Writing and Reading: Flash fiction stories DUE MONDAY and study guides DUE today;  all missing week DUE  for end of marking period!

Contests: Extra Credit---Hollins and Bennington

Next Week: Monday, we will begin Rita Dove and poetry

Contest Deadlines/Bloodsucking Fiends Part 2 Study Guide and Story

AGENDA:

CONTEST DEADLINE: Hollins and Bennington.  Let me know if you enter for extra credit this marking period.

School phone #  585-242-7682
marcy.gamzon@rcsdk12.org


BLOODSUCKING FIENDS:  Read Part III for Thursday
Work on Study guide for Part II--Nesting

WRITING:  Work on Flash Fiction piece

Morning Reflection for Thursday---Aalaysia

Bloodsucking Fiends

AGENDA:

Finish reading Bloodsucking Fiends for Tuesday---STUDY GUIDE #2 and TEST

work on Flash fiction and contest entries--Deadlines approaching

Discussion Questions--Bloodsucking Fiends

AGENDA:

Think, Pair, and Share:

Post a response to these questions with a partner.  Provide specific examples that show have kept up with the reading (turn in a Part 1 study guide if you have not done so; missing grades will drop to 0)

• Jody is totally unprepared for being a vampire. How do you think you would react to waking up one day having been changed into a vampire? Would you try to live a normal life? Once you adjusted to being a vampire, do you think you'd want to change back into a human being if the opportunity was offered?
• Jody has obviously had a tough time with the men in her life; do you think this affects how she reacts to becoming a vampire? Was the way Jody thought about herself shaped by how men reacted to her? How did you feel when Jody started to come into her own as a vampire and enjoy her powers?
• The Emperor seems genuinely concerned about the well-being of the residents of his city, despite the dire circumstances in which he lives. What does this say about mental illness? Do you think the Emperor went crazy from being homeless, or is he homeless because he is crazy? Is it possible that being crazy isn't always such a bad thing?

HMWK:  READ PART II--NESTING for Friday--to pg. 192

Gannon Contest

GANNON:  www.gannon.edu/poetrycontest

Writing contests

WRITING CONTESTS

4.  REGISTER WITH SCHOLASTIC.  Look at Bennington:

https://www.bennington.edu/events/young-writers-awards

https://www.weareteachers.com/student-writing-contests/

https://blog.prepscholar.com/writing-contests-for-high-school-students


HOLLINS (Nancy Thorpe poetry):
https://www.hollins.edu/academics/majors-minors/english-creative-writing-major/nancy-thorp-poetry-contest/

PRINCETON:

https://arts.princeton.edu/about/opportunities/high-school-contests/poetry-contest/

Bloodsucking Fiends Flash Fiction/Contests

AGENDA:

Work on Bloodsucking Fiends assignment  500-1000 words Flash Fiction

Consider entering Bennington, Hollins, and Princeton contests (see previous posts for links)

Parody Television/Novels/Film

AGENDA:


SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MMx0RnN2ik

Parody novels:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/27575/10-parody-novels-get-last-laugh


Parody movies:

https://www.thetoptens.com/best-parody-movies/

Parody examples:
https://literarydevices.net/parody/

Bloodsucking Fiends Assignment

Bloodsucking Fiends Assignment

AGENDA:

Study Guide #1



Here it is:
FLASH FICTION:

Write a Flash Fiction story (2-3 double-spaced pages) that PARODIES(makes fun of) an established genre (your choice--Science Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Western, etc.).   Choose this option if you want to try your hand at HUMOR and PARODY.
or

Write a Flash Fiction story that follows the conventions and uses the familiar tropes of a HORROR STORY  (vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, etc.) or a LOVE STORY.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction

https://www.writing-world.com/fiction/flash.shtml

https://flashfictionmagazine.com/

Vampires--TV TROPES

AGENDA:

TV TROPES

TV tropes

Vampire Tropes

trope

trōp/

noun

1. 1.

   a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

   
   

   "he used the two-Americas trope to explain how a nation free and democratic at home could act wantonly abroad"

   • 
     

verb

1. 1.

   create a trope.

Link:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VampireTropes

Videos:

http://www.watchmojo.com/video/id/8357/

Read first chapter online:

http://www.chrismoore.com/books/bloodsucking-fiends/

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

http://www.chrismoore.com/interviews/writing-the-vampire/ 

Watch the following videos and the videos on the video bar.

http://watchmojo.com/index.php?id=8330

http://watchmojo.com/index.php?id=8357 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bhb744dw18

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/the-new-vampires-9-possib_n_620202.html#s103541 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBsNmM3ADp0&feature=relate

Looking Ahead--Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends

AGENDA:

Bellwork: Practice PSAT Writing Questions

https://www.varsitytutors.com/psat_writing_diagnostic_1-problem-38202

Work on and turn in Mudbound stories.

1. Return Mudbound, go down to library for Bloodsucking Fiends

2. HMWK for Tuesday:  Read through Ch. 10 (pg. 73) in Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore on Vampires and Writing

Read and respond with a comment to Christopher Moore interview.  What is your experience with contemporary vampire fiction?  Classical vampire fiction (Dracula)? Have you read Twilight or any Anne Rice?

http://www.chrismoore.com/interviews/writing-the-vampire/ 


Audiobook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hz45Ezfnwk

Mudbound Quiz and Story

AGENDA:

Mudbound quiz and essay (open book).   Be sure to use specific examples from the text and cite in MLA citation form ---quotation marks  "" (page number).

continue to work on story--DUE WEDNESDAY!

Mudbound Stories

AGENDA:

Morning Reflection: (Post comment for credit--a paragraph response!)
Ms. Gamzon

Naomi Shihab Nye  "My President is Ted Kooser"  "Kindness"  "Gate A-4"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elNzMoG8Zs0

VIDEO: Mudbound

WRITING:  Continue work on stories

HMWK:  Finish book over weekend for Monday

Mudbound Vocabulary and Reading Quiz

AGENDA:

Practice Mudbound vocabulary on vocabulary.com.  When you are ready, take quiz on vocabulary.

Take Mudbound reading quiz--10 questions

Continue to work on your Mudbound stories.

READING: Read Part II for Thursday (to pg. 212).  Finish the book over the weekend for Monday class.