Your poem for the Fall for the Book Poetry Instigator Contest is due Wed., 9/30.  When you email it to the contest, copy the email to me by putting haileycp@pwcs.edu in the CC box.

Go to http://www.center-for-the-arts.org/catonmerchant/09%20EnterOff%20the%20Wall.pdf to see this year's instructions for the Center For the Arts' Off the Wall Contest.  Work on a poem with the phrase "Christina's world" within the structure of the poem.  

You might consider that "Christina's World" is a famous painting by Andrew Wyeth who died in January of this year.  Some interesting information is available on the following Websites:  http://architecture.about.com/cs/housetours/a/wyeth.htm

Interestingly enough, there is also a song by the title "Christina's World" on the album, No Hats Beyond this Place  by Men Without Hats.  Other songs with this title have been recorded by Big Dish and others.

Personal Journals will be checked on Monday and Tuesday, October 12th and 13th and again on October 26th and 27th. There will be three PJ Checks during the first quarter on Mondays and Tuesdays every two weeks.

1) Join the class if you are not already in it, and I will accept you.  Set up Group Fusion to include your email address.

2) Consider a business gmail account if you don't have one.  Go to google.com to set up.
 
3) Set up a Google Docs account at docs.google.com so you can access your writing from any computer at any time.

 4) Go to WWW.LOC.GOV and view the different authors who will be on the Naitonal Mall in DC on Saturday September 26th. 

5)Go to Fallforthebook.org and view the different authors who will be at GMU or in nearby Fairfax locations in the next week.  Make a list of authors to research.

6) Click on Poetry Instigator in the left column.  Note the details of the poetry contest, and then research some of the authors from above to collect a quote you might use in a poem.  Put the deadline in your agenda.

7)Write a poem for the contest in Google Docs, and share it with Mrs. Hailey.

8) Go to nfaa.org and note the opportunities for submitting your writing.  Put the deadlines in your agenda.

9) Go to http://www.pwcgov.org/library/teens/CP-CreativeArtsContest-Submitform.pdf to obtain a sumbission form for the Chinn Park Library's Creative Arts Contest.  Email your entry to childrensservicescp@pwcgov.org and try to submit to all categories if you can: poem, poetry anthology, and short story.  Also submit in visual arts if you can.  These may have to be delivered to Chinn.  I will be happy to do that for you.

10) Go to www.studentessaycontest.com and read the instructions on essay writing.  Write an essay in Google Docs.  After revision and polish, copy it into the textbox on the contest website and enter.  Be sure to include your home address as well as the school address 3001 Old Bridge Road; Woodbridge, VA  22192

11) For Writing & the Arts: Go to http://www.kporterfield.com/journal/Illuminations.html
and explore the information about Art Journals and the examples.  Take some notes on ideas you might want to consider trying in your visual journal. If you want to print an example of something, do so.  Keep these to put in your AJ or Visual Journal later.

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11) For Nonfiction I and II: Google Creative Nonfiction, and gather the names of authors to research.  Go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Borders  Websites, and find out about their books.  Select some possible memoirs, essays, or essay collections that you might read for your first Reading Response Assignment.  Since we are focused on Personal Writing this quarter, select something that falls under that category.  Get approval from Mrs. Hailey either by talking to her directly or by emailing her at haileycp@pwcs.edu before you begin reading.  Be sure your choice is something you haven't read before for a Creative Writing response.

12) For Writing and the Arts: Based on the category you submitted to Mrs. Hailey for your writing about art assignment, search the internet for something appropriate to view, read, examine, listen to etc.  The categories were dance, theater, musical theater & opera, painting, sculpture, music,  photography and graphic design.  

13) For Writing and the Arts:  If you haven't emailed Mrs. Hailey your art words, please do so ASAP.

 

Genre Focus, Advanced Genre Focus, and Creative Writing Seminar Syllabus