Week 2/MP4--Weekly Assignment #2--Outline of Project

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 Project DUE!

Please post on Google Classroom

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/Multigenre Project

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!

Normally, this marking period involves and independent project with a point system to relate to the grading.  However, I thought this project looked very interesting and fun.

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 five to six week project for you to work on at home, culminating in presentations to classmates over Zoom. 

This week assignment is due on Friday (or before).  It is time for you to brainstorm your project and write out a very 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!

Some other resources:
https://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/multigenre/introduction.htm
http://www.users.miamioh.edu/romanots/

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 starting MP4

AGENDA:
I hope you are doing well.  I am so sorry your junior 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 4/17

AGENDA:

Just are reminder to get your missing work in as well as any free writing you have done for extra credit.

The magazine article should be focused on an interesting topic for a specific magazine and involve research.
I would suggest that you aim for 3-4 pages.  I have not heard from most of you and need to hear from you soon.Remember that this is a brand new essay, written in essay format, and not an article thatyou may have written last year for Media Studies.

Look at the links I provided and read some articles for the magazine of your choice!

Extra credit—-there’s plenty to have if you upload your writing to Google Classroom.

Thanks.  Stay well.  I miss you!

Great social distance poetry website for poets reading poetry

Check out this wonderful website:

http://greenmountainsreview.com/the-social-distance-reading-series/

Terrance Hayes (Golden Shovel poem, etc.) does a great reading.