{"id":899,"date":"2013-03-04T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/?page_id=899"},"modified":"2014-02-10T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:30:17","slug":"lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEMORY BANK |\u00a0view PDF
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong> Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong> Doug Manuel
\nSynopsis:<\/strong> Students will dig deep to write about their first memories.<\/p>\n

ROMANTICIZING |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Katee Rice
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will recreate an outdoor location using visual details and emotional language.<\/p>\n

RECREATING A POETRY SLAM |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Speckman and Allyson Horton
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will use traditional “slam” techniques in performance pieces. See also:\u00a0The Art of Slam<\/a><\/p>\n

HALLOWEEN PROMPT |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Speckman
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write a scary short story or poem based on memories or some of these first lines.<\/p>\n

CELEBRITY COLLISION | view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Speckman (after Johanthan Lethem)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write a comical or serious piece about encountering a celebrity (or celebrities).<\/p>\n

HOW YOU LOVE | view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Allyson Horton (after Major Jackson)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will attempt to imitate famous poet Major Jackson by writing a ten-line poem with the title “This is How You…”<\/p>\n

SCENE WRITING | view PDF<\/a>\u00a0
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Wortley
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will create a scene using one character, place, and concrete noun.<\/p>\n

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES | view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Wortley
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will work on performing their poems with a specific emotion in mind.<\/p>\n

ANIMAL TOTEM \/ SPIRIT ANIMAL |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Jenna Caschera
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write from the perspective of their chosen animal.<\/p>\n

CAPTURING ANIMALS |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Ted Hughes
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write from the perspective of their chosen animal.<\/p>\n

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Wortley (after Wallace Stevens)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will about a particular noun thirteen different ways.<\/p>\n

FAMILY OF WORDS |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Forhan
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will build a poem by accretion of words and sounds.<\/p>\n

CREATION MYTH |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Gynne Cubel
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write a poem or story that explains the creation of an entire world.<\/p>\n

SWITCH DICTION |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Forhan
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will use both slang and formal language to create a poem.<\/p>\n

SECRET PROMPT |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Wortley
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will use a main character’s secret to build tension in a story or poem.<\/p>\n

A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Susan Sutherlin
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write a letter to a political figure in the form of a story, poem, essay, etc.<\/p>\n

SETTING THE TONE |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Speckman (after Phillip Jason)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will create mood through setting.<\/p>\n

WISH POEM |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Doug Manuel (after Kenneth Koch)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write a poem using structured lines containing the phrase “I Wish”.<\/p>\n

LITANY LOVE |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Ginnye Cubel (after Kim Addonizio)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will write a love poem in litany form.<\/p>\n

VONNEGUT |\u00a0view PDF<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0Poetry or Prose
\nCreated By:<\/strong>\u00a0Luke Wortley (after Kurt Vonnegut)
\nSynopsis:<\/strong>\u00a0Students will build an alternate reality or write from the persona of a Kurt Vonnegut character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEMORY BANK |\u00a0view PDF Genre: Poetry or Prose Created By: Doug Manuel Synopsis: Students will dig deep to write about their first memories. ROMANTICIZING |\u00a0view PDF Genre:\u00a0Poetry Created By:\u00a0Katee Rice Synopsis:\u00a0Students will recreate an outdoor location using visual details and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/mfashortridgeproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}