Magazine Project: First Deadline!; Extra Credit Opportunities

Please complete your magazine projects today. You may turn them in by the end of class if you'd like me to look over them. The official deadline is next class. We will not be spending the entire class on this project next time (we have other stuff to do in the lab) but this is the last day I'm giving you all time to complete the project in the lab.

When you turn in your work:

• Proofread your work before you submit it. Have your partner (or ask someone) to help you edit and correct your proofreading errors.
• Fill up that "white space" with ads. There should be no white space on your pages at the end of an article.
• Keep your formatting consistent all the way through the magazine. There should be a uniformity to your project, layout & design.
• Make sure your articles attribute your sources and give yourself credit for the articles you wrote in the by-line under the headline. 
• Do NOT staple your magazine together. I'll have to pull the staples to create the copies. I will make double-sided copies of your magazine for you. Next class, I'd like to share these with the class so you can see each other's fine work.

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES:

NOTE/ANNOUNCEMENT: The playwrights' festival will be held on January 19-22. We are in need of writers (x5), directors (x5), and actors (x10-20). Schedule will be as follows:

Jan. 19: All meet from 3:00-4:00. Meet potential directors and actors dressed in costume with a prop. Writers stay until 7:00 or 8:00 to write scripts. Dinner provided.

Jan. 20: Playwrights turn in play script; producer copies plays. Directors, writers, & actors rehearse from 3:00-7:00 (playwrights leave at 4:00).

Jan. 21: Actors & Directors rehearse after school (3:00-7:00); writers may attend 3:00-4:00.

Jan. 22: Actors/Directors meet after school for final rehearsal & tech. Dinner provided. Show opens at 7:00.

Please let friends and family know about this fund raising event for the Creative Writing Department. We are in need of actors, directors, and writers.

ALSO:

Mr. Gabriel (director of the Black History Assembly) would like to commission the CW department to write 2-4 minute (2-5 page) sketches. The task:

Choose a newspaper article from one of the following time periods:

• Slavery and/or Emancipation period
• Harlem Renaissance
• Civil Rights Movement
• The Obama Years...Yes, we can...

Inspire yourself by looking at a newspaper article or headline from the time period. Use the article to inspire your scene. Scenes should be dramatic--skip all the exposition except for the climax of your scene. Get right to the point and the drama!

Remember this is for a celebration of Black culture. This is not the time to get super negative (at least the ending of your scene should have a tone of hope--this is a common theme in African American literature). Scenes should be written for 3-4 characters. If selected, your scene/skit will be performed by actors during the Black History Assembly. Details on dates coming up. The assembly is sometime in February.

HOMEWORK: None. But you could try that extra credit...