Today, please open the Powerpoint presentation in your workshop folder entitled "Non-Fiction". In your journal, please take notes and complete the brainstorming exercises to move toward a first draft of a non-fiction story (memoir).
After taking some notes, please link to this website: BackHand Stories. This site is dedicated to the short form of non fiction and fiction (flash fiction). There's quite a bit here. Please complete the following:
A. Please watch the video from Ira Glass on Storytelling.
B. Click on the non-fiction menu on the top of the page. Read at least 5 of these short creative non-fiction stories. Then, to hand in, on a separate sheet of paper, please respond to your reading in a paragraph or two. What were the topics these stories dealt with, what was effective in your opinion in the writing style, what have you learned about non-fiction from reading these selections, etc.?
HOMEWORK: Please start and continue to read Black Boy or I Know Why...Sings. You may use your time in lab to read these books.
If you have questions or are having problems with the text, please jot down your question so that we can answer them on Tuesday, next week.
1 comment:
Thanks for considering Backhand Stories! I'd love to feature some of the responses you have to the stories on the site - you can even go ahead and post them in the comments section. Many of the authors on Backhand Stories are new and previously unpublished writers, so I'm sure they would appreciate the feedback.
Thanks again,
Martin Bell
Editor, http://www.backhandstories.com
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