Tuesday June 21st, 2016

I received interesting news this morning from Travis County, I've been assigned to attend jury duty on Friday the 24th at 130pm. At this time, there seems no way around the jury duty, so Mrs. Iris will take my place for camp on Friday only. We are set to put our final edits on our major project, as well as publish, then have our book fair the last half our of class. It looks like we will still achieve that goal, but will definitely need to skip some of the class icebreakers and activities. Students were told and we'll have more detail as the days progress.

Agenda
Icebreaker
Elements of A Story
Class Reading
Major Project

Icebreaker
Campers got together and played "Tell a Story". The instructor provided the character, setting, and conflict. The campers then had to complete the story, including the 5 elements of a story.

Elements of A Story
We continued out lesson on the 5 elements of a story, expanding on plot, and discussing conflict and resolution. Our lesson was also emphasized in our icebreaker!

Class Reading
We have a mini library in class with a collection of books for students to choose from! Each day in camp, students get 30 minutes of reading time to help showcase different styles of writing. Students are also able to absorb various author's storytelling abilities, see what elements are included in major stories, and learn how to articulate their own story from reading in class.

Campers were handed a "Story Comparison" worksheet after their reading. The worksheet asked each student to compare certain aspects of their story, depending on of they read a different book from yesterday, or the same book.  Students that read the same book were asked to compare chapters. Students who read different books were asked to compare the books they read.

Major Project 
We discussed what each student did for homework. Unfortunately, that time went by fast, as only one camper did their homework! So instead of having a fresh start for today, we had to make up our homework assignment in class writing a final outline and creating a first rough draft.

Our camp will us Flipsnack to create our major project. Our camp web address is: msadriennecreativewriting.flipsnackedu.com

Each student has a log in name, usually their first name, but some have their last. Students given username in class. The password for all students to log in is: iquest.

Students were shown the Flipsnack website. They created a temporary book template and played around with the software so they could get an idea of how it worked. We'll begin with the software first thing tomorrow, and get the campers to begin their first rough draft of their writing. Since we are short for time in camp, we'll be working on our first rough drat all day tomorrow in camp (Wednesday).

Homework
Get a written draft down to put into our Flipsnack format tomorrow in class.