CREATIVE WRITING I: SCHEDULE
2014-15
April
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
5B NO CLASS
6C See March-news
7D 
8A 
9B NO CLASS
13C News
14D Due News!
15A Observations of
Nature Lists
16B NO CLASS
20
21
22
23
17C Write a Nature
poemnature=state
of mind or eternal
place. Nature is a
metaphor.
24
March
2B NO CLASS
PARCC Week
3C NEW LYRICS to
Popular songs
4D -
5A 
6B NO CLASS
9C
Finish Lyrics
10D
Sing lyrics
11A Sonnet
*One line of Iambic
pentameter.
1.Vote on topic.
2. 3 groups/3 quatrain
For a class sonnet.
12B
No Class
13C
Groups put class poem
about food in a word
processing program;
read aloud.
Brainstorm a topic for
the individual sonnet.
16D More
brainstorming:
Brainstorming
handout.
SONNET-each
quatrain should have
one image/metaphor.
Spenser, (dialogic)
Shakespeare-shore
poems.
23A Find and research
a news article and
write a story or a
poem using the news
as an inspiration. Ex:
Fargo, IN Cold Blood ,
“Oh! Captain, my
Captain!”
17A
SONNET
Ex-Romeo and Julietpilgrim sonnet.
18B No Class
19C To C254
SONNET
Show poems: Doty, ee
Cummings, Rupert
brooke,Philip Sidney,
John Donne
20D C254?
SONNET DUE
24B No Class
25C C254
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26ADC254
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27A
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February
2C 1.One-Sceneillustration.
2.Scriptwriting
3D 
4A 
5B
No Class
9D
10A
11B No Class
12C Discussion
24B No Class
25C
Reviewed Beats:
iamb, trochee,
dactyl, anapest.
Meter-mono-, di-,
tri-, tetrameter,
pentameter.
Do the triolet
26D
Triolet due.
Tii +
Lhsinnervoices1415@gmail.com
Feb. Vacation
23a
GOALS: discuss +
write
1.Discussion- Vaccers
vs. Anti-vaccers
2.Triolet-formal
verse
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
6C Play due
Presentations
Turnitin.com +
Teacher drop box
13D
January: Happy New Year!
Thursday
Friday
1B No class
27A
Write original lyrics
for a familiar song.
“Star Spangled
Banner”—etc.
2C
Once-scene storystudent choice
Character sheets
9D 
5D 
6A 
7B No Class
8C 
12A
13B No Class
14C
15D Once scene story
19 MLK Birthday
No Class
20B No Class
22D 
26B No Class
27C
SNOW
21C View Dead Again
(Characterization,
movement, theme,
symbol)
28D
Work on script-one
scene, format,
29A Read The
Ketchup Bottle
Goal-One scene script,
fast-paced lines,
movement,, conflict
based upon
characters’
motivations.
16A
New Project-Pick a
situation
23A 
30B No Class
December
Monday
Tuesday
1C family reunion
poem (A LA Sylvia
Plath)
2D 
Wednesday
Thursday
3A 
Family reunion poem
is due at the end of
class.
4B
No class
Friday
5C
The Short Story:
*Plot—The
grandparent.
Goal: Write a onescene story.
*See Polti’s 36 Plots
8D
“Sunday in the Park”
Goal:
Revise-add natural
dialogue that
reveals character.
Include actions.
SHOW
9A
“The Kool Aid
Wino”Revise the
first line to grab
the reader.
10B No class
15A Role PlayingHow does motivation
affect behavior?!
16B No class
17C Analyze stories
read-motivation,
conflict.
Reivew Famous First
Lines-from online.
11C
“My Man Bovanne”
Edit out
unnecessary details
and words. Use
action verbs. Add
necessary detail.
Refine dialogue.
Submit to
turnitin.com.
18D
Scene analysis of As
Good as it Gets-esp.
establishing
character
22B NO CLASS
23 C
Do the character
(from Friday)
PARTY
24 WINTER BREAK
25WINTER BREAK
12D
Stories due Sunday
night.
19A
Create one
characterMotivation, etc.
(worksheet)
Describe the
character walking
into a room
Party sign up.
26WINTER BREAK
November
Monday
3C Dialogic Poem
w/ironic twist
10B No Class
Tuesday
4D 1.Dialogic Poem is
due—Groups present
2. Goal-Creating More
metaphors
Model:Plath’s
“Metaphors” Begin “I
am” Concrete to
concrete.
11 CMetaphor poem
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
5A
Work on Metaphor
poem
6TEACHERS’ CONV.
7TEACHERS’ CONV
12D 1. Metaphor poem
is due Read Aloud
2. Goal-EkphrasisWrite an essay, poem,
or short story
inspired by a work of
art to enter the
NJCTE contest. Due
11/21.-draft
Showed Don McLean’s
“Starry, Starry
Night.”
13A 
Showed Auden’s
“Musee des Beaux
Arts”
14B No Class
17C 
Looked at Rockwell’s
painting-AA girl being
escorted to school by
marshalls.
24D
18D 
19 A
20B No Class
21C Ekphrasis piece is
due-peer review.
25A
26B No Class
27 T-GIVING
28 T-GIVING
October
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
2B
NO CLASS
9C Cento due
GOAL: Use skills
learned in writing
poetry to write
creative nonfiction.
MODEL: Gary Soto’s
excerpt from A
Summer Life.
GOAL: Use a memory
to create a unified
piece about a feeling.
Soto focuses on guilt.
Other feelings can be
fear, ambivalence,
being scared, etc.
(This is abstract to
concrete.)
16C Work on
nonfiction.
23D 5 Haikus due
Next project: 5
Haikus make up a
poem with a theme.
Start with a title—or
not.
10D Work on
nonfiction.:
1.Write an engaging
first sentence.
2.Beginning, middle,
end.
3.Use relevant
details-make them
vivid.
4.Use strong verbs.
5.Be introspective-at
least at the end. What
30A
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31B NO CLASS
6D Cento
7A Cento
8B NO CLASS
13 NO CLASS
14A Work on
nonfiction.
21B NO CLASS
15B NO CLASS
28C Finish Haikus
29D Mother Said
poemsGoal: Concrete detail +
irony and logic.
20A Creative
Nonfiction=due
MLA format.
Continuing Goal: Make
the abstract concrete.
Next project: 5 haikus
27B NO CLASS
Friday
1A Submit & confger
about abstraction
poem.
Begin Cento
Goal: Free Verse form
& abstconcrete
22C
3C
Cento
Cento (Inspect
other poets’
poems and
harvest lines.)
Cento due
17D Work on
nonfiction/peer edit.
24A DODGE
Continue
September
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
P=Project
8B No Class
4 ALL
*Expectations
*Info. Card
*Ice Breaker
9C Paste Poem
10D DUE: Paste
Poem P2:
Language Lab
Goal: Observ. re:
diction. Obs. Re:
people.
Ex: Hopkins’s
“Gd’s Grandeur”
“Margaret”
“Jabberwocky”
(What happens in
Creative Writing
stays in Creative
Writing!)
Due: Beginning of
class 9/30
15C
1.Discussed progress
on language lab.
2.Concrete
images:Sarah Kay
“Daughter”, Taylor
Mali “Proofreading,”
Anis Mojgani “Shake
the Dust.”
Lists, songs inside of
the poem
P3: Advise the world
about something in a
poem. Address an
audience.
22D What is poetry?
Abstractionconcrete
My _____ is like a
(color) _____
(concrete word.)
29C
Thursday
11A
1.Discussed
progress on lang.
lab.
2.Goals: Creating
concrete images,
listing, free
verse.
a.“The Names”Billy Collins
b.Viewed Sarah
Kay on LCD
(Spoken poetry)
P3: Write a
spoken poem.
18B No Class
Friday
5A What is
Poetry?
P1*: Paste Poem
Goals:
*Syntax
*Collegiality
12B
No Class
16D
P2: Invented
Word Language
Lab is due.
Share lists and
images with
workshoppers
17A
23A
Research for
Cento + harvest
lines.
24B No Class
25 No School
26 No School
30D
October 1 A
2 B No Class
3C
Revise
19C
Spoken Poem
due: coffee
House.
P:3 is due.
abstraction
Workshop
abstraction &
revise.
Goal: precision,
accuracy,
originality.
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Livingston High School Curriculum: What is writing?
Core Curriculum Standards
Standards:
READING:
Key Ideas and Details 1,2,3
Craft and Structure 4,5,6
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7,8,9
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity 10.
WRITING
Text Types and Purposes 1,2,3
Production and Distribution of Writing 4,5,6
Research to Build and Present Knowledge 7,8,9
Range of Writing 10
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Comprehension and Collaboration 1,2,3
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas 4,5,6
LANGUAGE
Conventions of Standard English 1,2
Knowledge of Language 3
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use 4,5,6
COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
Comprehension and Collaboration
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Abstraction is
due. Read.
Begin Cento.