World Lit Entrance Writes

WRITING DOWN THE BONES

BEGIN WRITING YOUR LIFE TODAY!

 Rules: Keep your hand moving.

 Don't cross out.

 Don't worry about spelling, punctuation or capitalization.

 Go with the flow.

 Don't think. Don't get logical.

 Go for the jugular.

WRITE 1

 Question: What are your plans after high school? How does college fit in to those plans? How does this class relate to your future? What do you hope to accomplish in life, and how will college help you get there?

  Summer Song William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963

COMMUNICATION (PEL)

 Answer the following questions in your journal:  What is the most effective form of communication? Why?

 What do you consider before you say something?

 How do you approach communicating face to face v. communicating in writing?

 Why do we communicate anyway?

NOW, WORD CHOICE!

 6 WORD MEMOIRS  Let’s Watch:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejndNExso9 M

OK, LET’S WRITE OUR OWN

 Get to the core of who you are and what defines you now.

 Use bold words.

 Use punctuation.

 Due 9/5 to read aloud in class. Make them pretty (like the one’s in the video) to display.

WRITE 2

 These are the rules. First thoughts have tremendous energy, the way the mind first flashes on something. Inspiration. (9)  Question: Who or what is your inspiration?

META-COGNITIVE REFLECTION (AKA: META-COG)  Read over your entries from the week.  Reflect: What did you learn about a subject, yourself, someone else? How will you grow or change as a result of what you learned this week? What did you learn about something or someone, not from school, just from noticing? What new knowledge do you have today that you didn’t have yesterday?

WRITE 3

 Truth about writing: you must be a great warrior when you contact first thoughts and write from them. At the beginning, you may feel great emotion that will sweep you away, but keep writing, don't stop writing. Continue to use your pen and record the details of your life and get to the heart of them. This is discipline. (10) Question: How do you show discipline in your life?

WRITE 4

 “Writing: The more you do it, better you get. Like running, somedays you don't want to do it, you resist every step for three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration or desire. It'll never happen perfectly that way. You just do it. When you come to the end, you never want to stop, and you hunger for your next practice.” (11)  Question: Respond to this quote.

WRITE 5

 Reading: To be the best writer you can be, READ. Daily. In a space that is your own. This is vigilance. Reading on your own is personal freedom. That is powerful.

 Question: Can a book save your life? Discuss in a story, poem or rant.

WRITE 6

 “When you write, don't say, ‘I'm going to write a poem.’ This will freeze you. Expect the least, say, ‘I am free to write the worst junk in the world.’ Rigid expectations distance you from achieving your greatness”(11).

 Question: Write a poem using the words:  platypus, quasi-famous, savory, indestructible, & persistent

COLLEGE ESSAY- DRAFT IT

 Choose one college that you have been researching, and begin writing your college essay.  Let’s look at UW: http://admit.washington.edu/Admission/Fresh men/WritingSection

& OREGON U

  E. Submit an application essay.

The UO is interested in learning more about you. Write an essay of 500 words or less that shares information that we cannot find elsewhere on your application. Any topic you choose is welcome. Some ideas you might consider include your future ambitions and goals, a special talent or unusual interest that sets you apart from your peers, or a significant experience that influenced your life. If you are applying to the UO's Robert D. Clark Honors College, feel free to resubmit your honors college application essay.

& BYU

 http://saas.byu.edu/tools/b4byu/sites/b4/?ne

w-freshman/admission-application/

& RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

 http://admissions.rutgers.edu/preview/#

& SOME SCHOLARSHIPS

 Questbridge.org

WRITE 7

 We are going to fill 180 pages of reflective writing this year. That's a memoir folks. And you already have 5 pages. We set up long term and short term goals. They come, they go. It's the process of writing and life that matters. (12)  What matters right now in this moment?

WRITE 8

   Anton Ego Ratatouille Clip Perspective. The critic Ego orders "perspective" from Chef Linguine in the film

Ratatouille

. Hemingway could only write about his life growing up in Michigan when he moved to Paris. It takes time to see life under different lenses. It takes patience and produces less anxiety. (14-15) Tell a story about a time that you look upon differently now that you have some space between you and that moment.

WRITE 9

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXIjF0ERvYY  When was the last time you thought about breathing?

WRITE 10

 We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us. (16)  Who is this person for you?

META-COGNITIVE REFLECTION (AKA: META-COG)  Read over your entries from the week.  Reflect: What did you learn about a subject, yourself, someone else? How will you grow or change as a result of what you learned this week? What did you learn about something or someone, not from school, just from noticing? What new knowledge do you have today that you didn’t have yesterday?

WRITE 11

 Reading, Writing and Learning keep you young, no matter how old you get.

 Many occupations have a shelf-life. What can you see yourself doing forever to stay young at heart?

WRITE 12

 Make lists. Make lots of lists. Make lists of what you want to read about and write about next. Develop a thirst for learning. Make a list of things you want to do before  the month ends  The day ends  The year ends

WRITE 13

1. History is subjective. The facts are there, but the story is recorded, perpetuated, and retold from the perspective of the survivors, not from the perspective of those who lost power.

2. A society advances according to its ability to succeed technologically and economically. The evolution of human ethics is irrelevant to success and survival in a culture. In fact, a civilization must be slightly unethical, and sacrifice some of its civility, to advance at all.

WRITE 13

 Write about the quality of light coming to your eyes. Indoor/outdoor, night/day, now/before/in the future, literal/metaphoric doesn't matter, just write.

WRITE 14

 Respond to both of the following:  People who act on the orders of a corrupt leader are corrupt.

 People who act on the orders of a corrupt leader are without choice.

META-COGNITIVE REFLECTION (AKA: META-COG)  Read over your entries from the week.  Reflect: What did you learn about a subject, yourself, someone else? How will you grow or change as a result of what you learned this week? What did you learn about something or someone, not from school, just from noticing? What new knowledge do you have today that you didn’t have yesterday?

WRITE 15

 Begin with "I remember." Write lots of small memories.

WRITE 16

 Take something you feel strongly about and write about it as though you love it.  Stop, shift.  Write about your topic as though you hate it.  Stop, shift  write about the same topic in a neutral voice.

WRITE 17

 Choose a color.  Take your notebooks and a pen.  Let's take a walk.

WRITE 18

 Give me your morning. Describe in painstaking detail breakfast, waking up, getting to school. Slow down in your mind and describe every detail.

HOMEWORK

 Write in different places. Eaves drop. When in doubt steal (dialogue from somebody else).

 For homework, write down one page of over heard conversation for tomorrow.

WRITE 19

 “Women lack a certain sense of reality.”  Agree or disagree with Marlow.

WRITE 21

 Using the conversation you stole yesterday, place all or part of the conversation in a new scenario and make sense of it in a different way, much like the gossip and talk that surrounds Kurtz.

WRITE 22

 What is your first memory?

WRITE 23

 Write about the streets of your neighborhood.

WRITE 24

 Write about the stars.

WRITE 25

 Write about swimming.

WRITE 30

 Who are the people you love or have loved?

 Write about them (or to them).

WRITE 25

 Write about a teacher you had (in school or out of school). (20-21)

WRITE 27

 Write about reading and books that have changed your life.

WRITE 26

 Write about the most frightened you've ever been.

WRITE 28

 What kind of animal are you? Chipmunk? Fox? Grizzly bear?

WRITE 29

Support or refute the following statement: Okonkwo is a prodigal son.

WRITE 31

 Write a story or poem which either starts or ends with the line:  “So, the plot is thickening among my employees.”

WRITE 32

 Teach in order to learn. Whenever you tell someone else about your learning, you learn it in a new way all over again. (24)  Describe a time when you truly learned something or a time where you have been a teacher.

WRITE 33

 Write about frozen things.

WRITE 34

Describe your dream job.

WRITE 35

 Describe an art, sport or music performance that was THE BEST!

WRITE 36

 Who is your favorite hero? Why?

WRITE 38

 Write about your most memorable holiday.

WRITE 39

 Is loyalty everything? Explain with a story.

WRITE 40

 Draw a map of the Greek Theater, name and label each part.

 http://www.slideshare.net/mharring/greek theatre?related=4

WRITE 41

 Describe something in your life that is balanced and/or ordered.

WRITE 42

 Who would you side with: Antigone or Ismene? Why?

WRITE 43

 Specific to your Lit. Circle Novel:  What elements of the text can be perceived as being masculine (active, powerful) and feminine (passive, marginalized) and how do the characters support these traditional roles?

WRITE 44

 Specific to your Lit. Circle Novel:  How does the author present the text? Is it a traditional narrative? Is it secure and forceful? Or is it more hesitant or even collaborative?

WRITE 45

 Write about a time when you have experienced:  Déjà vu or  An out of body experience or  An instance of divine intervention

WRITE 47

 Write a menu that spans one day of meals that you could envision eating every day.

WRITE 48

 If you could own your own shop, what would be in it?

WRITE 49

 What is one thing that you would keep the same in your life if you could?

 What is one thing that you would change in a heartbeat?

 What is one person, place or thing that you would insert into your immediate world? Why?

WRITE 50

Explain Surrealism and Magical Realism.

What is the difference?

Give examples.

WRITE 51

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Count your blessings

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 Then, respond to what you resonated with from the the Allende video yesterday.

WRITE 52

 How are you doing?

WRITE 53

 Describe a time when you’ve lost.

WRITE 54

 Write a story or poem that incorporates:  the name of your first crush or friend  a favorite food  A superhero  And the words: insubordinate, robust, psyche, attitude, banana

WRITE 55

 Create a list of 8 objects in your life to give to your friends for a Scavenger Hunt. Things they should know about you. In riddle form.

WRITE 56

 What rules do you live by?

 Write your credo.

WRITE 57

 Agree or disagree:  “Honor waits for no one.”

 What is machismo?

 How do you see machismo in American society? Today? In history?

AFTER YOU READ MACHISMO ARTICLE #1:

Answer the following: Write down the actual definition of machismo.

1.

What is machismo like in Latin American culture? What are the historical influences?

2.

3.

What are the difficulties in transitioning out of a culture of machismo?

What do we learn from the statistics in this article?

WRITE 59

       Write about an event from the long weekend in a dramatic way—use all or more of the following punctuation: !

-- (dash) # @ A series of commas ?

WRITE 60

 What was the most machismo, surreal or magical moment in the novel for you?

WRITE 61

 Explain something that you would like to learn.

WRITE 62

 Describe a time when you have actively changed something. How did you do it? What was the purpose?

 Why do people make changes? Why don’t people make changes?

WRITE 63

 Write 5 metaphors.

 Josh is an asteroid weightlessly orbiting a distant planet.

 Niko is the syrup that adorns a large stack of pancakes.

WRITE 64

 What is identity?

 What has shaped your identity most this year?

WRITE 65

 Explain your name. What is the story behind your naming? What does it mean? What would you have been named (if you know)? Etc…

WRITE 66

 We have all procrastinated about something important that we had to do, sometimes disappointing other people and often disappointing ourselves. Why do we procrastinate? When have you procrastinated (lately)? Why?

WRITE 67

 2. Isolation and loneliness are feelings common to most people at one time or another. Sometimes external circumstances create this situation, and sometimes people deliberately withdraw from those around them. What can friends or family do when someone purposely withdraws and chooses to be alone?

WRITE 68

 3. What is the difference between “taking revenge” and “getting justice”?

WRITE 69

 Agree or disagree:  Parents always want the best for their children.

WRITE 70

 Explain whether you love or hate:  Bacon  A new bag of chips  Eggs  Orange Juice

WRITE 71

 4. Privacy is highly valued in our society. How would you feel if you found out that you were “under surveillance” at school, at your job, or among friends because of some change in your behavior?

WRITE 72

 5. Is moral courage more difficult to accomplish than physical courage? Will a person’s immoral choices come back to haunt him/her?

WRITE 73

Write about the best moment from Spring Break?

WRITE 75

 Define in your own words the following terms:  Illusion  Delusion  Madness

WRITE 76

 Imagine that you are one of the following personas living a day in YOUR life:  A Knight  Royalty  A Jester Write a SNAPSHOT of you AS this persona.

Include details of clothing, behavior and reaction from others.

WRITE 77

 Discuss the last time you talked someone into something

WRITE 78

 Have you ever been/ or can you see an elder in your life tasking you to carry out a task? What is it/ could you imagine it would be?

WRITE 79

 Who is your favorite fictional detective? Why?

WRITE 80

 Describe someone or something that makes you laugh the most.

WRITE 81

 Discuss someone or something that you knew before you experienced the person or thing as a result of characterization.

META-COGNITIVE REFLECTION (82)

 What did you learn this week?

 Take a look back at earlier entries and figure out how you’ve changed from Sept. 2, 2014 to now.

WRITE 83

 Compose a poem using rhyming couplets about any of the following topics:  Love  Food  Computer Games

WRITE 84

 What are your favorite things about Spring?

META-COGNITIVE REFLECTION (AKA: META-COG) (85)  Read over your entries from the week.  Reflect: What did you learn about a subject, yourself, someone else? How will you grow or change as a result of what you learned this week? What did you learn about something or someone, not from school, just from noticing? What new knowledge do you have today that you didn’t have yesterday?

WRITE 86

 What job real or imagined would you want to have most in the world?

 (Guess whose job I want…)

WRITE 87

 Have you ever met someone (or is there an actor/celebrity) who irritated you to no end, but no one else agreed with you? What happened to them in the end? Or what happened to your opinion?

WRITE 88 The Death of Marat

Painting, 1793 Jean-Jaques David In your journal, write a snapshot story for Jean-Paul Marat, French Revolutionary, killed in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, political enemy.

WRITE 89

 What are the 7 Deadly Sins?

 What is virtue?

 What are your Virtues?

WRITE 90

 At the beginning of Canto III, Dante reads the Road Marker to Hell.

 Write your own Road Marker to either  Heaven  Purgatory  Or Hell

WRITE 91

 Describe a time when you were so sure you were right, and then found out you were wrong.

WRITE 92

 Support or Refute:  Obedience is more important than friendship.

WRITE 93

 Create a shopping list for a villain.

WRITE 94

 Refute or Support:  Obedience is more important than friendship.

WRITE 95

 Refute or Support:  It is hard to hold a grudge.

WRITE 96

 Refute or Support:  Fighting is sometimes a solution to disagreements.

WRITE 97

 Refute or Support:  A person's immoral choices can come back to haunt him/her.

WRITE 98

 Write a letter to a future roommate. What should they expect?

WRITE 99

 Describe something you wanted badly, then once you got it, never used.

WRITE 100

 Reflect. What have you done up to now. What will you do now that you have gotten here?

 (Story, poem, haiku, list, etc…)

EXTRA WRITES

 Click on!

WRITE

 Retell the funniest story you’ve heard in a while.

WRITE

 Write about your parents.

WRITE

 “Is luck just a name for that which we don’t understand?”

WRITE

 Explain the difference between talking to your:  Friends  Relatives  Teachers How does your vocabulary change? Why?

WRITE

 If you were a pre-existing fictional character, who would you be and why?

WRITE

 Have you ever seen/been in the presence of a ghost? When and where?