500-Word Story Project: Prep for Coffeehouse

This morning please make sure you have completed your homework:

Watch at least 3 500-word stories (see link above) and summarize each story in 1 sentence. Write your 1-sentence premise (summary) in your journals. Then, add to this list with some of your own 1-sentence premises. Choose one of the 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer (see above) and in your journal, write this insight and what you think of it.

• 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer
• Please watch and listen to at least 3 500-word stories from this site. 
• Lab: writing a 500 word story. 
• Come up with a short story that should be exactly 500 words in length.
• Subject and genre is completely up to you!
• Use the handout advice to get you started.
• Use the advice from the videos and the 25 insights to help you as well.
• Write. Drafts of your stories will be due by the end of class today. 

When you have completed your 500 word short story, proofread, print and turn in.

With time remaining, please complete the handout reflection sheet for your speech performances. Turn this in before the end of class today.

Then: choose what coffeehouse piece you would like to prepare and rehearse for our coffeehouse next Thursday (Nov. 19 at 7:00). Choose a tone for your piece, highlight your best and most important lines, and indicate where you will slow down and speed up in your piece. Write your "acting notes" in the margins of your "script". Begin rehearsing your coffeehouse piece.

HOMEWORK: None.