"Reel"ly Good Quotes

Dumb and Dumber

Create a New Post featuring 4-5 of your favorite MOVIE QUOTES.  These could be funny, sad, smart...whatever stands out to you.  You can type these or use an image featuring the quote.  Make sure you indicate the film the quote is from, and also the character if you'd like.

When a Man Loves a Woman

"Reel" Life

Do a  New Post answering ALL the following questions (in at least 500 words) about your preferences in movies.

• Tell us about your favorite movie (or one of them!) and why you like it.
• Tell us about the kinds of movies you don't care for usually.
• Tell us about how often and where you usually watch movies.
• Tell us about what you need for movie viewing (environment, food, company, etc.)
• Tell us about what this survey says about you.
• If your life story was made into a movie...(who would play you, what would be 3-4 main plot points/events, happy or sad ending, etc.)

Include images in this post also. Thanks!

When you're finished, leave a quick comment on the movie post and/or movie quotes post of at least 3 of your classmates.

Keep it real (like Dan)

In a New Post share your thoughtful answers to 4-5 of the Dan In Real Life questions.  Shoot for at least 500 words.  Include an image.  You could also write responses to some of the questions in your journal.  Plan to turn in your journal with 20 new full pages for our end of 3rd quarter check NEXT Thursday 3/12.

In the books

We will be moving on to new topics (FILM then ART) for inspiration next week, so if there are ANY posts on the grade check you are missing--from books/text only (work from the other themes will not be counted for credit at this point)--please take care of those today or by the beginning of class Monday at the latest.

Use class time today to make up work you're missing. You can circle any work you complete today (or that I missed seeing somehow) on your grade check and turn it back in to to the basket or take it home for your reference to finish up work on your own.  

You can be writing in your journal or working on something else quietly if you've finished everything.  I will collect your journals Thursday, 11 March (the day before Spring Break begins!) for our end of 3rd quarter check.  You'll need 20 new full pages. We will add pages in class next week, but you might need to be making your own time to get as much writing in as you need.

Optional:  IF you would like me to offer brief, supportive feedback on some of your work, leave a comment here listing 2-3 of your blog posts you'd like me to take a closer look at.  

Thanks for being so GREAT!  Have a nice weekend.  XOXO

In the news{papers}

In a New Post on your blog, please share some writing inspired by our dig through newspapers.  

You might have one longer piece or several shorter ones, but come up with at least 250 words.  Include some images and a catchy title.  

You could mention the headline, photo, ad, etc. that sparked your idea in an Author's Note, or you could leave that a mystery...but don't just describe or narrate what you cut out--make up something new.

Blackout

Thanks for trying the newspaper and book page blackout technique (scientific terminology there) in class Tuesday. Please share at least one of your blackout text pieces as a COMMENT on this post. 

You could type the text you left on the page as a sentence or poem or story.  You could also take a picture with your phone and post your work that way on your own blog, but that is optional.

I'm thinking you could do this same technique with any printed material containing a good chunk of text to work with. I also think you could be inspired to write all sorts of other pieces by using your blacked out piece as a starting point.

You could visit Austin Kleon's website to see what others have come up with and even post your own work there if you're up for it. 

Six Word Memoirs

In a New Post on your blog, please share whichever of the 6-Word Memoirs you came up with in class that you are comfortable sharing.  Just one or all of them.  Include an image or images.  You don't need to explain them, but you could if you wanted to. You could also submit what you've come up with to the Smith magazine website.  Here's a link to the video we watched if you'd like to send it around to your friends and see which ones they think could apply to you (and themselves...).