Please turn in the take-home quiz.
After reading and discussing the 6 Stages of Creativity, please return to the lab to complete the following tasks:
A. On your blog, react to McCloud's stages. What stage would you like to achieve? How might you reach this goal? What do you expect from this program and how might your teachers help you learn what it takes to be an artist? Reflect and write your own blog post examining this issue.
B. Your on-going task is to read any 5 stories from the collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Choose one of the following tasks below to complete FOR EACH of the 5 stories you choose to read. You may, of course, read more than 5 stories if you'd like. This is an on-going project and will not be due until you return from Spring Break.
When you have completed the reading of your 5 stories you should POST a blog entry discussing Stephen King's work.
Then, for each of the 5 short stories you decide to read, please complete a short 1-3 sentence summary of the story's premise. A PREMISE is the underlying story--or "what the story is about" (for example, this story is about...) This will be turned in as physical homework to my in-box (see homework below).
Along with your 5 premises, each story should inspire one of the 7 tasks below. Story, essay, or poem drafts can be of any length, but should earnestly attempt to address the situation. I'd like you to choose 5 of the 7 prompts to complete. 2 will not be used.
Options:
After reading and discussing the 6 Stages of Creativity, please return to the lab to complete the following tasks:
A. On your blog, react to McCloud's stages. What stage would you like to achieve? How might you reach this goal? What do you expect from this program and how might your teachers help you learn what it takes to be an artist? Reflect and write your own blog post examining this issue.
B. Your on-going task is to read any 5 stories from the collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. Choose one of the following tasks below to complete FOR EACH of the 5 stories you choose to read. You may, of course, read more than 5 stories if you'd like. This is an on-going project and will not be due until you return from Spring Break.
When you have completed the reading of your 5 stories you should POST a blog entry discussing Stephen King's work.
Then, for each of the 5 short stories you decide to read, please complete a short 1-3 sentence summary of the story's premise. A PREMISE is the underlying story--or "what the story is about" (for example, this story is about...) This will be turned in as physical homework to my in-box (see homework below).
Along with your 5 premises, each story should inspire one of the 7 tasks below. Story, essay, or poem drafts can be of any length, but should earnestly attempt to address the situation. I'd like you to choose 5 of the 7 prompts to complete. 2 will not be used.
Options:
- Apply Stephen King's advice about writing from the book we read "On Writing" to one of the stories you chose to read. Explain how he seems to follow (or not follow) his own advice. Be specific. Use textual evidence and cite passages to support your claims.
- Choose one of Stephen King's stories and kidnap a CHARACTER from it. Write a story or poem from the POV of this character. The story/poem may be from backstory information, or a reimagined scene that might have been left out of the draft, etc. The situation you place the character in is completely up to you.
- Choose one of Stephen King's stories and compare it to one of your stories. What is King doing that is effective that you might learn to do in your work? Analyze your own process compared to that of Stephen King.
- Choose one of Stephen King's stories and use the same SETTING he uses, but change the characters, situation, and all the other aspects of a short story. Write your own short story in the same or similar setting, but allow King's description to provide backstory for your own story.
- Choose one of Stephen King's stories and make a parody of it. The line between comedy and horror is often a thin one. Use hyperbole and silliness to poke fun at King's story. Feel free to change the ending so that it is a happy one, instead of horror.
- Choose one of Stephen King's stories and start your story where his ends. What happens next? You decide and write that story. You may change the genre, the POV or tense, or add or omit characters.
- Choose one of Stephen King's stories and change the situation. Rewrite the story from that speculation (what if...)
HOMEWORK: This assignment is due April 5. You should complete all drafts of these stories/poems, essays, etc. and your reading of the 5 stories by April 5.
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