Please take a look at this video today before you begin brainstorming or coming up with an idea for your writing project.
WRITING TASK: You will use your interview notes to create a fictional character and place that character (based on your original partner) into your story. If you need a second interview with your original partner, go ahead and spend a few minutes asking him/her follow up questions. Take notes.
You may change any detail as you see fit, but try to justify your change. For example, you may change a character's setting (where they grew up) or an event in his/her life, but the character should have something similar to the original source material. If you interviewed a girl who plays sports, perhaps your protagonist of your fantasy story is a girl (or was once a girl who is now grown up) who stays physically active. How you deal with the details is up to your imagination. Avoid discarding details just because you can't think of an idea. Put the "creative" in creative writing!
THE RULES: Your story can follow any genre (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, western, romance, realism, action, comedy, etc.) Want to write about teenage vampires? Go ahead! Choose a genre or topic that you are interested in. This helps a writer write a story successfully. Your genre should follow the standard rules for that genre. For example, if you are writing a high fantasy, the use of magic is perfectly allowed, but we often don't expect magic and dragons in contemporary realism. You might even create monsters for your protagonist to defeat out of the challenges or problems your peer told you about in his/her interview. Above all, show me that you can write a creative story. I am also looking at effort, so if you don't get it right, don't sweat it--writing can be hard, but you SHOULD be spending your time in the lab writing. I DO have my senses, after all.
Your story should be relatively short (approx. 3-5 pages, double spaced). You can always add to the draft later. When you have completed your first draft, please title your story, put your standard heading on the top left (or right) and proofread your work for spelling/grammar errors. When satisfied that this is your 'best' work, please create a title for your story, print, and turn in. This assignment is due at the END of next class. You should aim to write at least 1 page per class period.
Remember that a hook works just as well for a story as it does for a speech. Revise your opening sentence of your story to HOOK your reader. Be creative to grab our attention!
Your story should be relatively short (approx. 3-5 pages, double spaced). You can always add to the draft later. When you have completed your first draft, please title your story, put your standard heading on the top left (or right) and proofread your work for spelling/grammar errors. When satisfied that this is your 'best' work, please create a title for your story, print, and turn in. This assignment is due at the END of next class. You should aim to write at least 1 page per class period.
Remember that a hook works just as well for a story as it does for a speech. Revise your opening sentence of your story to HOOK your reader. Be creative to grab our attention!
Please refer to the following rubric for this project.
Project Rubric:
9-10: story is imaginative, clever, well written, grammatically sound (almost completely free of proofreading, mechanical or spelling errors), story uses effective dialogue and effective description, story has an interesting theme, character is based on original peer interview in some clever and creative way. Story is turned in on time and fits in the 3-5 page range, properly formatted. Story has a clever and creative title.
8: story is mostly well written, with some gaps or weaknesses, but nothing that makes reading the story laborious or difficult. Story is mostly grammatically sound (some errors) but nothing that gets in the way of comprehension. Story has some dialogue and description, but work is not as compelling as scores of 9-10. Character is based on original peer interview in some way. Story is turned in on time and fits in the 2-5 page range, properly formatted. Story has a title.
7: story is completed, turned in on time, but lacks the imagination and creativity of scores of 8-10. Some moments of storytelling, but story may need more plot development, conflict, character development, or attention to detail and specifics. Story might have dialogue or description, but this is relatively uninteresting, or weakly presented by the author. Character is dubiously based on details from an interview or original source, but this is not clear, or the character is too similar to the source material as to be mistaken for the peer interviewed. Story may be late (missed deadline), and is on the shorter less developed side between 1 full page to 2 full pages in length. Work may have formatting errors. Story has a title.
5-6: story is as 7 above, but may be very late, or there are so many grammar and development or writing problems that makes comprehension difficult for a typical reader. Work is carelessly or hastily done. Student spent more time off-task in the lab than working on this project. Story lacks a title.
0: story or project not turned in.HOMEWORK: None. If you did not complete your story draft today in the lab, please complete it and be prepared to turn in the draft at the END of class on Tuesday.
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