NANOWRIMO- Week 3

Who thinks we can achieve our goal of 50,000 words? » make online polls
Tags : ms. yeilding ela

I think we can, and here are the top three reasons why...

1. Thanks to the Desert Island Supply Company, each one of you has now been paired with a writing mentor for the next two weeks!!!
They will offer encouragement, suggestions and edit any part of your novel that you would like to send them.
2. Did I forget to mention that if you get the 50,000 word goal, you get your own proof copy of your novel... YOUR words in YOUR novel, that will be AMAZING!
3. Most importantly, I believe in you and I am doing it too ! :)

"We have been created to help each other" ~Grace Lyimo, Kisa Project Scholar

Week 3: NANOWRIMO

Writing Norms:
1. Get help from everyone! (all teachers, writing buddies, and writing families)
2. Earn headphones to listen to music on pandora.com or playlist.com
3. Some days we will all listen to a new type of music.
4. Be respectful of the classroom environment.
5. Come in, sign out your computer and login to NANOWRIMO as soon as you come into the classroom.
6. Check the Holler if you Hear Me Box, Lying Cup, and Photographs for inspiration!

Tentative Schedule: (check calendar and outside of class for details!)
Week 1: Describe and develop characters
Week 2: Develop setting using imagery and sensory details
Week 3: Develop plot
Week 4: Check and edit dialogue, voice and mechanics
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30th, 1,666 words /day, about 167 pages!

Here's another video I'd like y'all to watch. It's about a student in Dar Es Salaam, Grace Lyimo. Through the Kisa Project she is getting an education which she believes will make her dreams come true, and then what does she want to do? Help orphans, beggars and the disabled. She also says we should carry someone else's problems as our own. Now there's some real swagger :)

Look forward also to an upcoming speaker in class, Amel Bahloul Benhssen! She is from Tunisia which is on the northern tip of Africa. She is here on a Fulbright Scholarship and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College.

NANOWRIMO- Week 2

So far, Week One has gone great! I am so excited to read your novels and I have even begun writing mine, it's called Shoes! It's a historical fiction that tells the story of Pandora from her perspective. Many of you are included in the story which tries to tell Pandora's story with a modern, Tarrant twist to it. Hopefully, it will reverse some ideas many people have of her, like the above video "The Lost Generation." Also, maybe think about reversing your story for the same effect as the poem or palindrome!

Try to use some of these words in your novel as well that are also palindromes from http://www.fun-with-words.com

racecar
eye
madam I'm adam

Don't nod
Dogma: I am God
Never odd or even
Too bad – I hid a boot
Rats live on no evil star
No trace; not one carton
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod
No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak
Some men interpret nine memos
Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac
Go deliver a dare, vile dog!
Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Do geese see God?
God saw I was dog
Dennis sinned