Daily Class Activity: April 30, 2024

Activity 1: Opening Journal Entry (20 minutes?)

Write a seven-minute freewrite reflecting on either of these phrases:

Life is short. Stop wasting it.
or
Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?

From Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day”

Share your entry, one sentence or one idea.

Five-Minute Break: Cell Phone Use OK

Activity 2: Writing from Models: Haikus (30 minutes?)

Read the Haikus and choose one to read aloud. Talk about the “rules” for haikus and low-kus. Write one.

Share?

Five-Minute Break: Cell Phone Use OK

Activity 3: Either plan a presentation or complete the assignment below (20 minutes?)

Write a short freewrite about where do you want to be in five years. Ten years?

Share and talk about what we might do now to help you get there.

Extra Credit Journal Entry: Be a writer. Observe. Collect. Create.

Questions, comments, suggestions? Contact me at jpowers2 [at] fairfieldschools [dot] org.

Today’s Bonus Question: Come to class and ask, “What is the Bonus question?'”