Wednesday June 22nd, 2016

We're on serious crunch time for camp! With the instructor having jury duty on Friday, we've been cramming in as much of our major project as the campers can handle. We only focused on our major project today, and had to omit our other camp projects and the reading so campers could be prepared for Friday.

Agenda
Major Project

Major Project 
Today we were able to get into Flipsnack, and began creating our own book! Students were given the camp website, their user name, and a password to log on to Flipsnack. Username is the students first name, and password is iquest. Once students logged in, the created a new book from scratch using the Flipsnack format.

Students had crash course training in how Flipsnack functions including how to upload and add images, add text, and format their books. There were a few glitches with the software, which forced a few students to have to begin from scratch again, but overall, campers got the hang of it and most were able to complete the cover, title page, and first 3 pages of their story.

Today's Goals:

• Use or outline from class yesterday to work on our first rough draft.
• Use our homework assignment, create a first rough draft, to begin working on our rough draft of Flipsnack. 
• If students did not do their homework, they had to complete their draft in class. 
• The outline and rough draft were required to include the 5 elements of a story:
• Character
• main 
• supporting
• Setting 
• Time 
• Place
• Problem
• What is you character trying to do, what is their goal?
• Plot 
• 3 events
• Resolution
• How does your character solve their problem and grow as a person?

Campers completed the following in class:

• Cover
• Title Page
• Title 
• Author 
• Published by Ms. Adrienne's Creative Writing Camp June 2016
• 3 pages of story (pages 3, 4, and 5 in our books)

Homework
Students were give an information packet which included the camp website and log in information. The packet also contained handouts for the 5 elements of a story, how to write a good story, and how to edit a story.

For homework, students are to:

• Read the information packet and make sure their stories include all of the details on the information sheets. 
• Edit their cover, title page, and the first 3 pages of their story. 
• Look for spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors that need correcting, then correct them. Make sure the first 5 pages look exactly how you want them to before class tomorrow. 
• Add images and text
• Those looking to draw their own images, must complete their images tonight, and being them to class tomorrow. The instructor will scan the images so the campers may load them up on Friday before the book fair. 
• Campers may download images from the internet and upload them to their books.
• Campers are encouraged to add more pages with their story text. 
• Goals for tomorrow (Thursday) are:
• Final edits on the first 5 pages
• Add text and images for pages 6 though 10. 
• Begin editing pages 6 through 10.