11/28

HW due Tuesday:

Writing - write for 20 minutes, focusing on either Option 1 or Option 2

Option 1 - Writing For Justice
...Work on your Writing For Justice piece for 20 minutes. Focus on any feedback you may have received (if you shared your writing piece with me at the end of class!) and including the following:

Writing For Justice - Include: Bystander/Target/Ally/Perpetrator Hook (action/thought/dialogue) Dialogue/Blocking/Inner Monologue Correct punctuation/conventions 1 Slow Motion Moment

Option 2 - Slow Motion Moment Practice

...Using our handout and notes from today, write a slow-motion moment. 

...You can create a slow-motion moment about something from  your day or you can pick something from any of my prompts below

Slow Motion Practice Writing Prompts:

• Describe using slow motion writing the moment and feeling you had when you finished a big projcet
• Describe using slow motion writing the moment when you first walked into the first middle school dance
• Describe using motion writing the moment when you first saw a cool video and realized it was the single greatest video of all time!!
• Describe using slow motion writing the moment you found out a major piece of news (test scores, tryouts, election, etc...)

Consider the following writing moves to expand your slow motion moment:

EFFECTIVE SLOW MOTION WRITING MOVES:

• Hook (action/thought/dialogue)
• Dialogue/Blocking/Inner Monolgue
• BLOCKING
• Similes and metaphors
• SENSORY DETAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (touch, smell, sounds, sights, taste)
• EMOTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• EXPLODE/EXPAND THE MOMENT