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Self ExpressionHere's the PDF document of the words we brainstormed in class: creative_writing/self-expression.pdf Exercises:
Read:
William Carlos Williams "apologizes" for eating someone's plums. He ends the poem with the half-hearted apology, "...they were delicious, so sweet..." Do: Write a tongue-in-cheek apology. It need not be in "poetic" form. You're sorry for something, but at the end there's always a reason why you enjoyed doing for which you're expressing sorrow. An example of this is "I'm sorry I broke your window, but it's the first time I ever hit a home run."
Do: Be something. It might be a drop of rain, the color blue, a school bus, or a stalk of wheat. You have to be that object and tell me:
You can even make up a little biography of the object.
Do: Imagine you're at a carnival. You see a very strange-looking guy disappear into a doorway that somehow wasn't there a few seconds before. You follow the guy, and they have to tell me what happens once you're through the door. Where have you gone? What do you see?
Do:
Here's the PDF document of the words we brainstormed in class: creative_writing/self-expression.pdf Save your work to your folder in a Word document with the file name: Lesson plan based on: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson171.shtml |
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