First Assignment

Assignment Wanted Ad or Recipe Recipe Sample 1 Writer's Recipe  WANTED Sample Recipe, Second Draft Sample Pooka, a purebred Resmut Student 42's Wiki Page

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Assignment

Wanted Ad or Recipe

 

Create either a WANTED AD or a RECIPE about yourself. Be precise and detailed. Keep asking yourself, What else? What else? Be prepared to share in some way in class (read all of it; share a part; let someone else share it with the class). Add it to your own wiki page.  Name your page wanted8wST42, which translates to:   wanted is the title; 8 is your grade; w is for writing; ST for student; 42 is your student number.

 

What I'm looking for:

clear ideas

logical order

words that whistle about you--show who you are

words specific to the form you chose (Wanted or Recipe)

 

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Recipe Sample 1

 

 

Writer's Recipe

 

Ingredients

1 cup diligence

3 cups smiles

25 sharpened pencils

35 colored pens

1 ton of paper

2 cups of redo

4 tablespoons everyday words

25 gallons of questions

6 cups vivid verbs

4 cups nifty nouns

a sprinkle of adjectives and adverbs

1 ton of patience

65 gallons of listening

2 tons of friends

35 resources of good ideas, including yourself

 

Directions

Gather paper, pens, and pencils and place on desk. Look through own mind and other resources for one excellent and specific idea. Begin with everyday words about the idea. Share with a friend for more information, or research in your resources. Add diligence as you specify with nifty nouns. Listen to a friend again. Add his/her questions to your own to redo the idea with more details. Sprinkle the adjectives and adverbs sparingly. Pour in the patience and stir in the vivid verbs, redoing as necessary. Listen to the lilt of your words and present your product, smiling at your success as a writer.

 What do you think? Will you accept the challenge?

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 WANTED Sample

 

 

 

Student 42

S3--7W

9/30/05

Wanted Ad--third draft

 

WANTED

A person constantly learning, interested in all ideas and events. Must engage in continued research of how the universe works, such as observing the Mars Rover Opportunity as it grinds into hemitite, the mineral evidence for water on Mars. Must believe in the Constitution of the United States and its protection of the rights of all citizens, no matter what. Able to bring the tools required for excellent thinking: heuristic strategies, books, writing tools, conversation, and a fantastic MacIntosh computer. Additional skills include hiking, walking the dog, boating, creating scrapbooks, creative and relaxing cooking, an amazing ability to focus, and technological expertise. Weeding or obsessive cleaning is not required. Attitude is important: if life provides lemons, make lemonade. Provide excellent references, such as one husband, four children, nine grandchildren, two cats and one dog. Apply if you are over

fifty and female, engage in thoughtful conversation, and continuously reflect curiosity and wonder.

 

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Recipe, Second Draft Sample

Student 42

S3--7W

9/30/05

Recipe--second draft

Recipe for Rezmut

 

Ingredients

1 cup patience

1 playground, with and without kids

1 gallon's worth sense of smell

3 cups sense of sight

1 weedy area, set aside

2 gentle eyes

1 ton of sweetness

a pinch of natural spices

45 tons of white fur, gathered from every comfortable spot in the house (and every corner too)

1 tablespoon of bark

4 webbed feet

any puddle or lake

Heinz 57

 

Directions

Take one school playground, sometimes with kids, and sometimes without. Pour in the sense of smell sifted with the sense of sight. Apply the ton of sweetness as the kids stream out of the building, some of whom carry fingers full of food. Stir in the two gentle eyes viewing for vittles. Add one warning bark when danger nears. Sprinkle a pinch of natural spices, if a growl or chase is required. Fold in the four webbed feet for the puddle or lake. Include Heinz 57 species of canine. When done, sweep up the 45 tons of white fur that results, and hug your Rezmut (reservation mutt).

 

 

 

 

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