Brochures Due!; Thief of Always Exercises

Please complete your brochures. Make sure you proofread your brochures for grammar and design mistakes. Make sure your name is on your brochure's opening flap (the third column of the first page). Print your brochure and hand in. PLEASE: DO NOT FOLD OR STAPLE YOUR BROCHURE!

After completing your brochure today, please do either or both of the following classroom assignments:

A. Read A Thief of Always. Use your time in the lab to continue reading silently on your own.
B. Choose any of the following writing exercises and write.

Chapter eight-thirteen:

10. Pg. 80; Tell a water story from your real life; describe a time when you encountered water.
11. Pg. 81; Describe a precious item you lost or that was stolen from you.
12. Pg. 83; Describe a dream you have.
13. Pg. 89-92; Describe a transformation or explore the possibility of being something else. What would you like to be? Why?
14. Describe a time you witnessed or participated in the death of a living being.
15. Pg. 130. An appositive is a description of a named noun. It is used after a comma to clarify or provide further detail to something already identified. Carna is described in a series of appositives (the appositive phrase is italicized): “Carna, the tooth-stealer; Carna, the devourer; Carna, the beast.” Use the appositive to describe an object or person.

This covers the first half of the book. The book is divided into two parts. The first part of the book has 13 chapters. The second does as well. There are 26 chapters in all. Why do you think Barker divided his book in this manner?

Part Two: 

Chp. 14-26

1. Pg. 139. Start a story with the sentence: “He knocked on the door…” continue the story.
2. Describe a time in your life when you wished that time would move faster or slower.
3. pg. 153. Draw a picture of a house or place. Use this drawing to start a story or poem set in that location.
4. Pg. 194. Describe your attic or a fictional attic. What sorts of things are there in the dark?
5. Pg. 199. Start a story or poem with the line: “There were five doors ahead of him.”
6. Chp. 20 – Have a conversation with an inanimate object. What might it say or believe?
7. Pg. 220. Oh, to be a vampire again…. Start a poem with a similar line. Choose a noun that you would want to be “again” and use this repetition (like pg. 220) to create verse.
8. Chp. 23. Write about the war between two or more inanimate objects. What would they argue about? Who might win?
9. Describe a time when you stole or thought about stealing something.
10. Pg. 266. Start a poem, story with the line: “The days were…”

PLEASE USE YOUR LAB TIME EFFECTIVELY IN THIS CLASS TODAY! DO NOT SPEND YOUR TIME TALKING OR DISTRACTING OTHERS, OR SURFING THE INTERNET FOR UNRELATED MATERIAL, OR LISTENING TO MUSIC, OR USING YOUR CELL PHONE.

Our creative writing lab is for writing and writing projects. Please honor these simple rules and respect your classmates by maintaining a quiet writing lab where we can focus on our writing.

HOMEWORK: Please complete the book A Thief of Always. There will be a test on the book and its motifs on Tuesday, Nov. 5.