{"id":1889,"date":"2025-05-01T09:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:08:22","slug":"2024-first-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailcarsonlevine.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/01\/2024-first-class\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 First Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are my notes to myself for the first writing workshop of the summer last year. The workshop this year will run from 7\/14 to 7\/31, Mondays and Thursdays from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things (for me) to bring:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"I\">\n<li>Writing Magic and Writer to Writer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"I\">\n<li>this page!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"I\">\n<li>Pad<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"I\">\n<li>WELCOME!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>My phone #, email address. Don\u2019t share. Website, can share. Take a screen shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>My name &amp; pronouns. Intro Jen and Debbie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Go around &amp; say pronoun, what grades they\u2019re going into. What do they hope to get out of summer? Say if it\u2019s more than writing better, if there\u2019s something partic you want. Poetry possible. Tell everyone: If you could time travel to the past or future, when in the past or how far in the future would you visit? Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>How c we make it better? You can say it out loud or email me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask if any will miss \u00bd summer.&nbsp; If they don\u2019t like it, not forced to stay. How much will they miss?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol type=\"I\">\n<li>How many like to write poems?&nbsp; Read poems? How many prefer story-writing to poetry?&nbsp; How many vice-versa?&nbsp; How many equal?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Keep what you\u2019ve written, and keep in mind that we want a collection by the end of the summer. I\u2019ll expect you to email in something after the fifth week for copying for the sixth week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>about homework. Don\u2019t have to do it, but if they do, will get benefit of my editing. They can do the week\u2019s assignment or keep going with something they started in the workshop. Don\u2019t submit something you wrote for school, and no AI. I\u2019ll get it back to you but maybe not instantly. Email to me as Word or Google doc. If it\u2019s a google doc, give me permission to edit. Due by Wednesday at noon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>email me if you want to set up a time for an individual meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>can drink something, but no food. No lying in bed, unless you\u2019re sick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>How vocab works. Do not look up! Type in chat meaning and part of speech. What does part of speech mean? lycanthropy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>PRONUNCIATION:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(ly-KAN-thruh-pee) <a href=\"https:\/\/wordsmith.org\/words\/lycanthropy.mp3\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEANING:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>noun<\/em>:<br>1. A delusion that one has transformed into a wolf.<br>2. The process of or ability to transform into a wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ETYMOLOGY:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Greek lykos (wolf) + -anthropy (human). Earliest documented use: 1584.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Prompts. Discuss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homework. Discuss. Remind them when it\u2019s due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are my notes to myself for the first writing workshop of the summer last year. The workshop this year will run from 7\/14 to 7\/31, Mondays and Thursdays from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm: Things (for me) to bring: Go around &amp; say pronoun, what grades they\u2019re going into. 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