PICTURES FOR YOUR PEASANT POEMS

HELLO ALL!!


Remember you are working on your "Definition Poem" today AND beginning to freewrite, brainstorm, and work on the "Peasant Poem" I assigned yesterday.

Remember for the "Peasant Poem", you are to form groups of no less than Six (6).

I've posted a few options below that are paintings of a group of people.

Each person in your group is to select someone in the painting to write as....to take on the voice of.

After your group has developed a game plan (the names of each of you, basic info needed to be shared with the group), you are to break away from each other and begin working on a dramatic monologue for the character YOU have chosen in the painting.

Here are your options....

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#2


#3

#4

McCulloch's Magnetic Poem Example

To post an example of a "magnetic poem" using the online versions, use the Hypersnap program. Take a picture of your screen. Crop it. Save it as a jpeg. Upload it to your blog.

Eva's Poem from Writing Fix

I began looking at what work did (or didn't....ahem.....) happen on Friday. Eva did a nice job taking her similes given to her to create a striking poem. Take a read below:


A little girl ran away from her family on a rainy Sunday.
She ran to the forest
trying to get away from the stormy world she lived in.
She was crying but no one heard her.
Or maybe they weren't listening.
She threw herself on the ground, hopeless and heartbroken.
She didn't want to be in this world anymore.
As she was laying on the ground she listened.
The wind was a thin whisper,
the trees seemed to sing to her.
She felt like she was in heaven.
The police found her next morning.
The little girl had drowned in the rain.

For a rough draft, freewrite exercise, I'm very impressed, Eva!!

FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010

Hello my dear creativing writing class,

Besides working on a final draft of your "THE SUMMER I WAS..." for Monday, I want you to play around with a few ONLINE poetry, writing prompts. Most of these are really quite elementary, but they allow you to work with words and play around creatively with writing.

Just take the links below. READ THROUGH ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS. And try the activities a few times.

WHEN YOU ARE DONE, post some of your "mini-poem creations" on your blog. PLEASE BE SURE TO NOTE WHERE THE 'mini-poem creations' came from (i.e.....Which ONLINE exercise or webpage).

Here's a list. Try at least two to three of them:

1) RANDOM POETIC PHRASE GENERATOR
2) RANDOM SIMILE GENERATOR
3) RANDOM OXYMORON GENERATOR
4) MAGNETIC POETRY ONLINE (Try a few of these different online versions.)

Writing "Workout"--Blog a Little about Life, Right Now

Write a few paragraphs at your blog REFLECTIN on life RIGHT NOW. This will NOT become a poem. It is just a chance to simply write for writing's sake.