Creative Writing Period 2 February 28 - March 3

Period 2 – Creative Writing February 28 – March 3

Warm up #53 (Monday)

Organize the following words into some meaningful pattern as a setting, part of a conversation, a descriptive paragraph, or a plot.

Cotton

Fences

Queues (lines you wait on)

Skyrockets

Tacos

Tickets

Witches

Warm up #54 (Monday)

Write 5 sentences based on the rhythmic model shown below, that also include the following words:

Blue

Sun

Moon

Rain

Mosquito

Wood

Extra Credit!  Combine and refine the five sentences you created in Warm Up #54 into one very long one, using the conjunction “and” only twice.

A line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row:

da

DUM

da

DUM

da

DUM

da

DUM

da

DUM

The tick-TOCK rhythm of iambic pentameter can be heard in the opening line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 12:

When I do count the clock that tells the time