Agenda, April 17

Due Friday: Rough Draft for Packet 2 (two pages of fiction or two poems)
Due Thursday: Bring a book
Due by end of class Monday: Teacher conference. Show me your rough. Talk to me about it.

Unit 2: Structure: Beginnings, endings, middles, and laying the words on the page

1. Reading Time: Pay attention to beginnings and endings, and unusual formatting.
2. Freewrite #13: Write a story that ends in disaster.
3. Revision Exercise #1: The flood was coming. Rewrite this sentence once using simile, metaphor, or personification. Rewrite this sentence once using alliteration, assonance, or consonance. Rewrite this sentence once using a sensory detail.
4. Pre-write #15: Desire, Obstacle, Action.