Monday February 23rd – February 27th 2009
- Monday: Narrative Poetry
- Tuesday: Writing narrative poems
- Wednesday: Reading strategies: Skimming, scanning, rereading
- Thursday: Intro to Essays: Effective Essays; What itch needs scratching?
- Friday: How do I scratch the itch? Defining the Problem
Hi mrs.hopkins!
i forgot my journals at school and i don’t remember the thing we were sopose to write about. so u should put the Journal’s on your blog!! 
Rhys,
You got it! I added a new page at the top right corner of the blog where I will put all of the journal entries from class. Thanks for the great idea!
Hi how are you? Do we get a grade if we right this? Just wondering… I am going to enjoy this class because i love to READ READ READ and WRITE WRITE WRITE.I Hope you enjoy your first year by yourself!
Hi Mrs.Hopkin you’re a nice teacher!!
hi mrs. Hopkins. my dad went to ecu , anyway see u tomorrow!
thanks to tell us !
hey mrs.hopkins
i just wanted to no if i could like add some new things on my 1 hour re-write?
i kind of changed it a little bit and i hope thats ok!
well ill see u tomorrow
Noor,
THat is perfectly fine. That is what I want you to do! That is the whole purpose of doing a one hour writing and then a re-write.
See you in class tomorrow!!
YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mrs. Hopkins How do you make the smile faces?
Hi Mrs. Hopkins. I hope you liked my Fiction Story. I have started the second one.
Hi Mrs. Hopkins,
I just wanted to know when report cards are going home?
Thanks!
Mrs. Hopkins,
Hi! I have some questions about my book. What if I get a writers block? Should I sleep on it? Should I save my story to not only my thumb drive, but to my computer? And if a long period of time passes in my book that’s uneventful, I shouldn’t go into detail about it, right? Oh, and one of my most recent 1-hour writings “Arson the Fighter”, you got that he was Arson’s great-grandfather, and that the baby boy was Arson, right?
Thanks!
Connor Klauss
Hi Connor,
I’m so glad you are so committed to this book. It is coming along wonderfully! If you get writer’s block, just walk away and try not to force something on paper just because you feel like you need to. This is why it takes some really great writers YEARS to write a novel. When you arent thinking about it and stressing about it, you will be surprised how much better your ideas will be. I also like to carry around a small notebook with me everywhere I go. This should be small enough to go in your pocket. If you are out and about and you get a thought, write it down right at that moment so you have something to go off of when you get home and start to write again. If you don’t have it and you get an idea, write it somewhere! The best writers will tell you this is something they always do. When you have a lot going on, it is sometimes hard to control what is dumped into your memory and what you will completely forget.
Also, you mentioned the pace of your book. Remember our lessons on “Make a Movie Behind your Eyelids?” This is exactly what I meant by that. Think about all of the movies you have seen. The minor parts of the movie take a few minutes or maybe even seconds and the more important parts might take thirty minutes to get through the same amount of physical time. You have to know when it is an important part of the book and slow down your pace and really put it in the action that your reader can see and hear. I know it feels cheesy, but it really does help to close your eyes and visualize the scene in your head. Which parts could you SEE happening? Which parts took longer than the others?
PLease take it from someone who lost her entire geneology project in college that she had worked on for months because of a faulty disk….SAVE AS MANY PLACES AS POSSIBLE!!! As a matter of fact, print every now and then so you even have hard copies available. Even if it’s not completely up to date, it would be much better than having to start from scratch! :-O
I hope this helps! Feel free to come and talk to me anytime that you need help. I am soooo excited about your book.
wow mrs. hopkins such a big paragraph or two!!!!!!!