For your Journal Project

Here are some creative writing prompts.

Weekly Agenda 12/21 - 12/23

Monday 12/21
-Peer-edit Interior Monologues
-Begin Stranger than Fiction
HW - Final Interior Monologues due after break

Tuesday 12/22
-Stranger than Fiction
HW - Work on film guide

Wednesday 12/23
-Stranger than Fiction
HW - Interior monologues and film guide due 1/5
-Enjoy your break!

Monday 12/14
-Starbucks presentations
-"Big Boy"
HW - Finish your own ending of "Big Boy"

Tuesday 12/15
-Answer questions as character
HW - Vocabulary worksheets

Wednesday 12/16
-Different types of narration
-Vocab review game
HW - Study vocabulary

Thursday 12/17
-Vocab quiz
-Interior Monologues
HW - Write interior monologue as character (Typed, 1-2 pages)

Weekly Agenda 12/7 - 12/11

Monday 12/7
-Write story around transcript
HW - Read "“Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities”

Tuesday 12/8
--Act out scenes
-Packet on Dialogue – read and review as class
-Students will rewrite their dialogue into the other 3 forms.
-Discuss Sedaris
HW - Read “You Can’t Kill the Rooster”

Thursday 12/10
-Writing portfolios
-Character trees
HW - Read “The Youth in Asia”

Friday 12/11
-Characterization
-Discuss Sedaris
HW - Read “The Great Leap Forward”
-Starbucks application

Imagine

Please submit your artwork, poetry, and prose to AHS's nationally ranked literary magazine -- ahsimagine@gmail.com. Include your name, grade, and homeroom teacher.

Submission Deadline - December 23