Week of 12/11/12

12/13/12

Goal: Wrap Up.


First Step: Housekeeping. Disclaimer.

Go to Infinite Campus. See if you have any "blanks" or "M" grades. Then, on a piece of paper, everybody answer the following questions (even if you've already told me these things.)

1. Do you have any missing poems (old work)?

2. If you turned them in, where are they? (Edmodo, your blog, your portfolio?

3. Is your 6-week paper missing? If you turned it in, where is it?


8. Did you turn in your portfolio as a hard copy or a Wix site)?

9. If it's a Wix site, What is your Website URL? 

10. If it's a Wix Site: where did you post the URL?

11. Give me your paper copy of a poem for the final packet.

12. Did you submit to Muse on Edmodo?

13. Anything else you need to tell me about your grade? Last chance!

Portfolio viewing.

Now, Carl Sandburg:


12/11/12

Goal: Wrap up Portfolios. 

HW: Duh. Portfolio due on Thursday. 

First Step: "So You Want to be a Writer" by Charles Bukowski

Time to work on portfolios.

Examples from the other class first. 



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Research and contemplation activity: Zen Drawing (theater)

Pick an object from all of the options and find a quiet spot.
Sketch it in as much detail as possible. Think of the drawing as meditative. Silence is an absolute must. The quality does not matter, only getting in touch with the object through the enjoyment of drawing it matters.

If you finish before time is up, think of and list everything your object is made of and all its previous incarnations back to the beginning of the universe. (Coke cup example). Nothing created, nothing destroyed. 
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles." (Walt Whitman).