Monday's Option #2: Color Story

In a New Post (of at least 300 words, with at least one image and a creative title) on your blog by the end of class on Friday, write a short story (fiction or non-fiction narrative) that begins with a sentence that includes the word BLUE.

Start each of the paragraphs (at least 4 total for your story) following with  a sentence using a different COLOR word.  Include at least one image.  If you need more than 4 paragraphs to tell your story, that's fine.  

Use the COLOR word only once in each paragraph, but suggest the color in as many ways as possible. Highlight the details you've used in the color they're suggesting.

For example:

The world had turned GREY. Nothing but mud and asphalt surrounded the unpainted house, little more than a box made of concrete blocks. Charlie, dressed in faded work pants, rubber boots, and a thick wool sweater, steadied himself with a hand on the top rail of a weathered cedar fence. Behind him, nothing but ash-coloured sky, bare trees, and plumes of smoke belching from the factory in the distance. A lone sparrow rested on a branch, one beady eye watching.

Please have all color-inspired pieces posted before the beginning of class Wednesday so we can comment on each other's work. 

Remember you need to do this piece OR the Color Association Poem-you don't have to do both (but you could!). 

Monday's Option #1: Color Association Poem

 Using the handout template as a rough guide, create a Color Association Poem and share it as a New Post on your own blog.  Include at least one image.  Fold the handout in half and tape it in to your journal to count as an entry this week.  

Please have all color-inspired pieces posted before the beginning of class Wednesday so we can comment on each other's work. 

Remember you need to do this piece OR the 4-paragraph Color Story--you don't have to do both (but you could!). 

Paint Chip Poetry

Please polish and post the paint chip inspired pieces (alliteration!) you came up with in your journal during class on Thursday.  You may group them all in one post or do a separate post for each one.  Include an image for each piece.  Let me show you how to do this if you don't know--it's easy and important to add visual interest to your work.

You can post all your poems, but at minimum please post these (in any order you choose):

• 2:  haikus 
• 1:  acrostic using a paint color name
• 1:  8+ line free verse poem using the paint name as a title or in a line
• 1   8+ line narrative poem that uses the 4 paint color names (or you had the option to write a short piece of prose--memoir or fiction, etc.)

If you finish with this assignment, click around on the info at HGTV about the Psychology of Color, how different colors affect our moods.   There are various color quizzes out there you could try, too.  Or you could continue to customize your blog with gadgets (quotes, images, tools) on your sidebar, or update your profile. Thanks!

Color Collage Poem

In a New Post on your own blog, please post a poem of 8 or more lines inspired by some aspect of your magazine cut-out collage in your journal featuring the paint chip shade you selected. (You could write a short story or memoir piece on this one instead if you'd like.)  

The color may or may not make an appearance in your writing.  Your poem might describe a place, an event, a memory, a feeling, a person, or a combination of those.  It might take the form of a Narrative Poem, a Free Verse Poem, a Rhymed Poem, an Acrostic Poem, or a series of 3 or more Haiku Poems.  

Please include an image to go along with your writing.

Title your post Color Collage Poem. 

Include an Author's Note about the origin of your idea. 

Please post all COLOR-inspired assignments (including another one we will add on Monday) by the beginning of class Wednesday, 29 January.