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Creative Writing Class Notes

Creative Writing Class Notes

Date

What you need to do.

What happened.

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5/14/2024

Submit a piece to the class magazine.

Fill out this form.

Work on your Ambition Project.

We did a final Jerome.

We submitted a piece to the Class Magazine.

2

5/10/2024

Work on your Ambition Project.

We did our writer’s workshop. (4 minutes of listening.)

3

5/8/2024

Work on your Ambition Project.

We talked about different methods for planning novels (snowflake vs islands vs promises).

Studio time.

4

5/6/2024

Work on your Ambition Project.

We learned different methods for planning a novel (the snowflake vs islands).

Studio time.

5

5/2/2024

Work on your Ambition Project.

We did the “Headline - Report” activity.

Studio time.

6

4/30/2024

Work on your Ambition Project.

We got into our ambition project groups and did a Jerome Pass/Remix.

Studio time.

7

4/26/2024

Submit Blog Post 14.

Presentations

8

4/24/2024

Write stuff.

We practiced having

fresh descriptions

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9

4/22/2024

Come get a grade proposal form from Mr. Merrill.

Email to Mr. Merrill what you’re planning on doing for your ambition project. Also: explain why you want to do it, how you’re going to go about it, and whether or not you’re “biting off more than you can chew” (you should be).

We did our grade proposals.

We talked about the ambition project.

Students presented their Challenge 5 person.

We talked about holding attention and navigating transitions.

10

4/16/2024

Submit your notes for Class Challenge 5.

We talked about memory.

11

4/12/2024

Work on Class Challenge 5.

We learned about

Sho Shibuya’s

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work. (

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We wrote a letter to time.

Studio time.

12

4/10/2024

Write stuff.

A pretty standard day of reading blogs, doing a prompt from Jerome, and studio time.

13

4/8/2024

Start thinking about a creative inspiration.

Start thinking about something ambitious you’d like to write.

We learned about

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14

3/28/2024

Write something.

We updated how we leave comments on blogs.

15

3/26/2024

You need to adjust some settings in your Notion account. Come talk to Mr. Merrill if you missed class.

Do a “

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” option.

We fixed some settings in Notion to preserve our anonymity.

We worked with our eavesdropping transcripts.

Studio time.

16

3/22/2024

Write stuff.

Bloglog.

We went for a walk. It was so nice outside, how could we not?

17

3/19/2024

Do this

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We did this

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18

3/15/2024

Read one of the stories linked on the Stream tab of Classroom if you’d like.

We talked about our assumptions about the artistic life.

We each read a story.

Studio time.

19

3/13/2024

Review Class Challenge 4.

Fill out this

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We learned about dialogue.

Studio time.

20

3/11/2024

Spend some time writing.

Copy the list of blogs into your Bloglog. The list is on the Stream tab of Classroom.

We spent time reading blogs.

We did a genrebend.

Studio time.

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