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 Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:34 am
In this class, you will learn creative writing, which in turn will help you in rp guilds, like this one. I will teach you tricks for when you're feeling lazy, and we will have fun. In this class, we will be having contests which are totaled every other week, which signafy your progress. Any good thing you do, like posting in character, participating in class discussion, and homework (yes, homework) will earn you points. Any rule breaking or not turning assignments will lose you points. We'll get more in depth with that later.
Overview
Set Up/ Rules
Drill/ Objectives
Class Work/ Homework
Contests
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:52 am
In this class, I will have new assignments up every Sunday. Homework is due by Thursday.
Drill will be first on the list. It will always be in Blue
Objective is next. It will be in Green.
Classwork is in Yellow
Homework is in Red
Point standings are in purple
Rules
1)No flaming. You can write in your stories heatedly, but it should never be directed at another student unless I tell you too. It may be an activity, like Shakespearean insults...
2)You may not use really strong language. Anyone who cusses more then Twice per page is going to be out of my class, unless it's part of the story. So try to keep it to a minimum. Storys shouldn't have many cusses either...
3) Use spell Check! If you have the google toolbar, you can click a button and it checks it for you. If not, cut and paste into Microsoft Word. Everyone is entitled to a mess up once in a while, but If you spel lyk ths, you loose points, 'cause I know you're not trying. Note that when I typed 'Cause, it wasn't spelled cuz or even just cause. I added the apostrophy because it's an abreviation of because, so it's 'cause. not that hard.
4)have fun with your writing! If there's an assignment in school, just say, I will probably get a b anyway if I turn it in, so I may as well have fun with it and make it an A. If you can't write, don't try to do an assignment which has a deadline. Just write. Go outside and draw with words- Pick a subject and write about each and every detail on it that you can find. cross and uncross your arms infront of you a few times to get both halves of your brain working. Listen to music. Go and do something with your friends, whatever gets your pen flowing again.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:52 pm
Drill/Objectives:
Drill: The drill is just to warm your brains up for class. It'll usually be just a puzzle, like a 5 minute mystery. It may pertain to what we will be learning that week, or it may not. Answers will be in Dark Blue.
Objective: Objectives are just to show what you should learn that week, what topic I am teaching.
Ex. Drill: Pete, Janice, Maria, and Tommy live in the same house. Maria and Tommy go out to a movie for a couple of hours and when they come home, Janice is dead in a puddle of water and glass. It's obvious Pete did it. The question is, How did Janice die?
Answer(which you will pm me, don't post it or you'll ruin the whole thing for others who haven't been here...) Janice suffocated. Pete was a cat and Janice was a fish in a glass bowl. Pete tried to eat her and knocked the bowl over. Janice was out of water, so she was dead by the time their owners, Maria and Tommy, came home.
Ex. Obj. This Week, SWBAT write a good and well structed first page, including Opening sentence and foreshadowing.
Class Work: Class work is the work we do based on the objective which is done in class. Class work is obvious, and anyone in this class should already know what all of these things except maybe point standings are since most of you went to school for at least a year, hopefully more then that...
Home Work: This work is an extension of what we do in class. You will pm Velma-Kelly88 (one of my old accounts) all of your homework and drill answers, as well as anything else needed to be pmd. Homework must be turned in by the thursday of that class, giving me three days to grade it.
Point standings: the contest in my class will be based uppon class participation. We won't start it until we have more students, since if there's only one student, they will obviously win... But each student at the start of everyother class will get fifteen points. If you do a good job on homework and turn it in on time, you get another 5 points. Same with class work. Drills if you get them right you also get 5 points for the answer and 1 point for trying. If you try, you automatically get that point. If you post in class in rp, you get 1 pt per post. At the end of two classes (two weeks) whoever has the most points will win. Once we get a lot of people we'll split into teams. Prizes won't be the same. At first, we won't have very good prizes, since I only have 7000 gold at this point, but if you want to get better prizes, you must donate to Velma-Kelly88. I girlscout promise (holds up first three fingers together in the g-s sign) that I won't use that money for anything other then prizes for the class. After 2 weeks, your score is set over again to 15 points and we start over again. At the end of each year, I'll tally up each person's personal score from the whole year and I'll give that person a great prize, I might even ask my mom if I can buy an envelope for the ocasion. So, I help those who help me. I won't spend more then 500 gold out of this account for prizes, so let's get crackin'
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:26 am
Mickel sighed as he entered the classroom. Sure, he was here now, but next he would be training combat, getting beaten by mere children. Ah, well, such was the way of things. As he sat down, he realized it had been years since he had actually WRITTEN. Of course, he read all the time, but writing was something entirely different. Perhaps it would come back to him, or perhaps he would make himself look like a fool. He mentally shrugged. The answer would reveal itself shortly.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:37 am
Drill: A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he wakes up, gets dressed, eats, goes to the elevator, takes it down to the lobby, and leaves the building for work. In the evening, he goes through the lobby to the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator (or if it was raining that day) he goes back to his floor directly. However, if there is nobody else in the elevator and it hasn't rained, he goes to the 10th floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his room. Why? OBJ. to pick a good topic for your bookClass work: pick a topic and work out a frame for the book.
Frames go:
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1/_______5
1 razz rologue: whatever the main idea of the prologue is goes here.
2: Building suspense, knowledge of past events not necessarially explained in story being told at that moment
3: Climax- this is the most suspenseful part of the story. This is what everyone is waiting and holding their breath for.
4: Characters start figuring everything out and life starts to get easier
5: ENDING!! The story ends, everyone is able to understand what has happened.
In your frames, don't go into detail. one could be that a kid died and another kid's dad blew his brains out and the kid with the dead dad moves into the house of the dead kid. 2 could be kid finds out that maybe the dead kid didn't kill himself. 3: Dead kid's mom kills herself. 4: Other kids think that she killed her son 5: kid living in dead kid's house finds out that it was dead kid's gf's dad who killed dead kid. Dad goes to jail, kid and dead kid's gf make up and everyone is happy. Frames aren't detail or dialogue. They're the bare bones of the story.HWK: Finish your frames and send them to me.
Point standings: none so far.
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:40 am
"Mickel, you'll get your 16 points when more people join the class, ok?"
Emily, the teacher told her only student.
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