Creative Writing Week 10: Publishing

This week we will sharing our work, celebrating our work, and evaluating the works of others. We will be reading each others' strories and begin working with a digital storytelling tool called Storybird.  Storybird collects art from a variety of artists and lets you use that art to express yourself.  I have signed you all up for Storybird accounts. 

1. Finish your books.
2. Please see me for your login information.
3. After you have logged in to Storybird, start exploring the tool.  Start by looking at my own story: Mary Ann Reads a Book.  Type a comment about something specific that you liked.  Then, explore at least five other stories, commenting on things that you liked.  Send me links to the stories on which you commented.  
• A good, specific compliment is not: I liked your story.  
• A good specific compliment is: I liked how you used dialogue to show how feisty your character is! Great use of indirect characterization!
• You can view Storybirds from last year's students, too: 
• Cat on the Run by Bry
• The Tale of Cynthia Mercury by Celenia
• The Day the Clouds Drifted Away by Adara
• The Freaky Boat by Amanda 
• The Perfect Day by Janelle
• Finding Friends by Lizzie
• Sally's Adventure by Jesstine

Fairpoint Communications Strike

http://www.wcax.com/story/27042385/fairpoint-strike-enters-2nd-week

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/national/2014/10/17/fairpoint-strike/17426857/

Weeks 7-8: Revision, Editing, & Publishing

1. Finish revising your stories using your teacher's suggestions.

2. Finish/correct all dialogue exercises from Week 5.

3. Meet with your teacher to have an editing conference about your fractured fairy tale and your tall tale/myth. Then, edit your stories and submit the edited drafts to your teacher.

4. Publish your work! You will choose one of your three stories (fable, fractured fairy tale, myth/tall tale) to make into a book. Your published version should include:

• an illustrated cover with the story's title and your name 
• at least five additional pages with both words and appropriate, clear picture graphics
• a page in which you cite ALL websites that host the pictures that you use (if you use original drawings, this last page is unnecessary).

Week 6: Revision

1. Finish all of last week's activities, including:

• Figurative Language Definitions & Examples
• Dialogue Exercises and Practice
• Draft of Myth or Tall Tale

2. Begin Revising the following works by meeting with your teacher:

• Fable
• Fractured Fairy Tale
• Tall Tale/Myth

Analyzing Advertising

Fill in the guided notes as you view the slideshow about propaganda.

Then, use those techniques to make an advertisement for investing. You may make it about investing itself, the importance of diversifying your investments, or about one particular investment tool. You must include at least two facts and use at least one of the techniques that you learned about in the slideshow.