WARM UP!!!!
Create a short scene about......procrastination.
Then.....create a poem about one of the following:
- friendship
- creativity
- responsibility

This week we will focus on writing a comic strip using the web tool, BITSTRIPS.
You will create 3 separate comic strips using the following subject matters:

1. School
2. Love
3. World events

Each "Bitstrip" should be a minimum of 6 frames, 4 of which must have text.

Due: Friday, January 7

Midnight on a deserted street lit with old-fashioned lamp posts, wreaths, holiday lights, frost, and a dazzling 40-foot tree at the end, tiny in this photo. Magical? Depressing? What is the mood evoked? What is stirring in your soul — memories, dreams, something else?

The Blanket
As the weather gets cooler, thoughts turn to snuggling and keeping warm. Recently we received souvenir blankets at a baseball game. As a child, I remember the quilt my great-grandmother made for my father with his initial at the center in red, his favorite color. I've also known children who can't go anywhere without their blankie. Recently, I learned of electric blankets that have dual controls.Write a story about a blanket. 300 words.

Reflect on the works of Maya Angelou, by creating a poem in her rhymn and style......

Edward Estlin Cummings was born at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 14, 1894. He began writing poems as early as 1904 and studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School. He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from Harvard. His studies there introduced him to avant garde writers, such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.

In 1917, Cummings published an early selection of poems in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets. The same year, Cummings left the United States for France as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I. Five months after his assignment, however, he and a friend were interned in a prison camp by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage (an experience recounted in his novel, The Enormous Room) for his outspoken anti-war convictions.

After the war, he settled into a life divided between houses in rural Connecticut and Greenwich Village, with frequent visits to Paris. He also traveled throughout Europe, meeting poets and artists, including Pablo Picasso, whose work he particularly admired.

In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Later in his career, he was often criticized for settling into his signature style and not pressing his work towards further evolution. Nevertheless, he attained great popularity, especially among young readers, for the simplicity of his language, his playful mode and his attention to subjects such as war and sex.

ASSIGNMENT: Study various works of e. e. comings. Use these as a basis to create your own poetry in his style.

monday 12/6

"photo prompt" warm up: Create a whimsical poem using this image.

Write a scene or short story starting with this sentence:
Heavy white snowflakes dropped to the ground like silent bombs trying to destroy my plans.











tuesday 12/7
Today's prompt challenges you to use these three words in a scene or short story.

1. cell phone


2. goatee


3. mysterious package
   

wednesday 12/8


What bridges did you cross last year? Find a symbolic image/item and write about it for your journal.



















thursday 12/9







friday 12/10