318, Week 23 Creative Writing

• LOG IN to your computer (User: Student)
• OPEN Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• OPEN your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• OPEN your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following:

(1.) What is on your mind?
(2.) How you are feeling?
(3.) Something that learned
(4.) ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.

• Check- in

Monday, February 22, 2010

Start today. Get with your partner and finish your map. You have until 12:00 PM.

*If you are finished with your website map, you may recreate your 8th Grade Graduation photo pose in Photobooth and save it in your journal. Write about 8th grade after you include your photos.

Lesson: First Class Refresher.

Elements of an email. I have noticed that when some people write emails, they do not include important information in their emails.  It is important to include this information so that the reader of the email can quickly get the message and file it away if necessary.When you write an email you should include the following:

• Sender Information
• Subject of email
• Greeting salutation (i.e. Dear Mr. Loreto)
• Body of email
• Closing salutation (i.e. Sincerely)
• Sign your name (type your name

Write Mr. Loreto an email about something you would like to write about.

• Save/Logout
• Checkout
• Dismissal

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Journal:
Write in your journal about the website you mapped. Think about how you can use that website in your different classes. Think of ideas of how you can use that website in Math, Science, Language Arts and Social Sciences.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Journal: Choose a writing prompt from the Categories label or from the Tags on the right hand side of the website page.

Letter to your teacher:

• Address it to a teacher in their Math, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science.
• State the purpose of your letter. (Why are you writing?)
• Write a recommendation to your teacher about what website you believe you should use in your class. (Name the website and list reasons why you would like to use the website for class.)
• Give a paragraph summary about the website. (Explain what the website is about. Highlight things like who uses the website, who made the website, how you know about the website and if other classes are using the website.)
• Write a paragraph of the feature(s) of the website that you believe will benefit your class. (Explain what different things you can do on the website. Write about the things you hope to use in class.)
• Give at least three suggested assignments the teacher could assign for that website. (Be as specific as possible.)
• Give a summary of your recommendation. (Restate what you wrote previously.)
• Sign your letter.

Summary of your letter in Paragraphs

1. Write introduction.
2. Summary of website.
3. Explain features of website to be used in class.
4. Give suggested assignments.
5. Closing statements that include a summary of letter.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February 25 and 26, 2010

There is 3 days left in Creative Writing. The rest of time in class you will have to finish your assignments for creative writing. The following is a list of items that are due by the end of class, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. You must save them on your computer in your folder with the word “FINAL” added to the end of the file name (for example your file  “Mr Loreto Journal 318″ will turn into “Mr Loreto Journal 318 FINAL”.

1. Complete journal with at least 15 entries

2. Completed partner Website Map or  Completed letter to teacher

3. Completed HW item slide show

4. Saved journal to First Class

5. Check in with Mr. Loreto regarding your grade

318,Class of 2010, Give a little advice….

8th graders.

You will be graduating as the 8th grade class of 2010.
Think about what that means.
In June you will have completed almost nine years of school.
In you journal today, reflect on that time.
Think back.

What was your first day of school like?

What were your friends like?
Have they changed?
How about your teachers, what are they like?

Write some advice for the classes that follow you on how to graduate the 8th grade.
You may write your advice as a step by step process to graduate.

You may write your advice as a list such as top ten things to do your 8th grade year.

It can come as advice on how to get good grades and get along with teachers.

Write some advice for the classes that follow you.

Write it the best way you know how.

Week 17 8th Grade Creative Writing Agenda

Monday and Tuesday, January 11-12, 2010
Journal Slide Show, Assignment # 2

• Log in to your computer (User: Student, Password: cps!)
• Open Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• Open your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• Open your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following: (1.) What is on your mind?, (2.) How you are feeling?,(3.) Something that learned, and/or (4.) ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.
• Check- in: review Keynote during check-in. Review: Opening Keynote Presentation, Saving, Toolbar, Inspector and Buttons.
• Review Assignment #2
• Assignment # 2: What is on your mind (Journal Entry) Slide Show
• Create a slide show that is at least 8 slides long
• Show in your slide show what you have learned (i.e. change font: size, color, type, use media: photos and videos, use masters, use shapes, use more than one theme, et cetera.)
• Send Mr. Loreto an email from your first Class account answering the question, “What is my assignment 2 about?” Write a short paragraph that describes your presentation including the subject of your presentation, how many slides it will be, if you are using videos and/or photos, and a title.
• Save
• Close all windows
• Log out of your computer.
• Check out.
• Dismissal.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
10 Things About Me: 1-5

• Log in to your computer (User: Student, Password: cps!)
• Open Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• Open your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• Open your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following: (1.) What is on your mind?, (2.) How you are feeling?,(3.) Something that learned, and/or (4.) ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.
• Check- in: review Keynote during check-in. Review: Opening Keynote Presentation, Saving, Toolbar, Inspector and Buttons.
• Assignment # 3: Ten things about me.
• Example of 10 things about me… Mr. Loreto’s “10 Things About Me”
• Your next assignment is to write ten things about yourself. Fill in the blank for the following statements and write an explanation for each. Each of your responses should be a paragraph or so in length (5 sentences).
• In Class, write responses for things 1 to 5.
• 1. One thing I like is …..
• 2. One thing I dislike is….
• 3. One thing I like to eat is….
• 4. One thing I like to hear is…
• 5. One thing I like to see is….
• Save your work.
• Close all your windows.
• Log out of your computer.
• Check out.
• Dismissal.

Thursday, January 14, 2010
10 Things About Me: 6-10

• Log in to your computer (User: Student, Password: cps!)
• Open Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• Open your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• Open your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following: (1.) What is on your mind?, (2.) How you are feeling?,(3.) Something that learned, and/or (4.) ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.
• Check- in.
• Assignment # 3: Ten things about me.
• Write responses to questions 6 to 10.
• 6. One thing I like to feel is…
• 7. One thing I like to smell is…
• 8. One thing I have learned this year is….
• 9. One thing I would like to learn is….
• 10. One thing you do not know about me is…
• Save your work.
• Close all your windows.
• Log out of your computer.
• Check out.
• Dismissal.

Friday, January 15, 2010
10 Things About Me: Setting up my slide show.

• Log in to your computer (User: Student, Password: cps!)
• Open Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• Open your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• Open your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following: (1.) What is on your mind?, (2.) How you are feeling?,(3.) Something that learned, and/or (4.) ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.
• Check- in.
• Assignment # 3: Ten things about me.
• Setting up your slide show.
• Slide 1: Title and Heading
• Slide 2: Introduction.
• Slide 3: One thing I like is …..
• Slide 4: One thing I dislike is….
• Slide 5: One thing I like to eat is….
• Slide 6: One thing I like to hear is…
• Slide 7: One thing I like to see is….
• Slide 8: One thing I like to feel is…
• Slide 9: One thing I like to smell is…
• Slide 10: One thing I have learned this year is….
• Slide 11: One thing I would like to learn is….
• Slide 12: One thing you do not know about me is…
• Slide 13: Credits
• Slide 14: Thank You
• Slide 15: Blank Slide
• Save your work.
• Close all your windows.
• Log out of your computer.
• Check out.
• Dismissal.

6th, 7th and 8th Grade Agenda Agenda for Creative Writing Week 16: January 4, 2010 – January 8, 2010

Day 3, Monday, January 4, 2010.
Interview with Photo Booth and Pages

• Login, Check Website and Journal
• Check-In with Mr. Loreto
• Review: The lesson today will be a review of what we learned before winter break (saving, copying and pasting, using Pages, and using Photo Booth)
• Interview your neighbor. You will be interviewing the person sitting next to you. You will ask them three questions that are already written for you and you will write a fourth question to add to the interview. Copy and paste the following questions into your journal and record the answers using Photo Booth.
• Question 1: What is your name? How did you get your name?
• Question 2: What is your favorite thing to do in school?
• Question 3: What is your favorite thing to do outside of school?
• Question 4: Write your own question. Remember to copy and paste questions 1 through 4 into your journal.
• Demonstration of creating videos.
• Saving videos into your Creative Writing Folder
• Write your questions and Interview your partner
• Rename files of images and movies
• Save
• Logout
• Check Out
• Dismissal

Day 4, Tuesday, January 5, 2010.
Introduction to Keynote

• Login, Check Website and Journal
• Finish creating your interview videos if you were not able to finish on Monday.
• Check-In with Mr. Loreto
• Introduction to Keynote: Keynote is the slide show presentation.
• What is a slide show?
• Example/Orientation to Keynote Presentation
• Tour of Keynote Toolbar:
• Setting up your first slide show…
• Five things about me…. (Write in your journal a list of five things about yourself. It can be things that you like, things that you do not like, things that you have, things that know, things that tell the class about you and who you are. See Mr. Loreto’s example writing of five things. Search the class website using the key words 5 things.)
• Work on your journal of 5 things.
• Create slide show.
• Save
• Logout
• Check Out
• Dismissal

Day 5, Wednesday, January 6, 2010.
Introduction to Keynote Inspector

• Login, Check Website and Journal
• Finish creating your interview videos if you were not able to finish on Monday.
• Check-In with Mr. Loreto
• Review Keynote
• Changing the document settings: Self timed, loop show, enter author information
• Changing Fonts
• Use of templates.
• Work on slide show
• Save
• Logout
• Check Out
• Dismissal

Day 6, Thursday, January 7, 2010.
Transitions/Builds in Inspector

• Login, Check Website and Journal
• Check-In with Mr. Loreto
• Review Keynote Inspector
• Demonstration of inserting transitions to the slides
• Demonstration of inserting builds into the slides
• Save
• Logout
• Check Out
• Dismissal

Day 7, Friday, January 8, 2010.

Inserting Media

• Login, Check Website and Journal
• Check-In with Mr. Loreto
• Review Keynote
• Insert Media
• Demonstration of inserting media.
• Work on slide show
• Save
• Logout
• Check Out
• Dismissal

Creative Writing

An Introduction

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