Use period 3 to polish or complete your short story drafts from last class. (See the previous post for details!) Turn in revised drafts by end of class today.
Period 4:
In the book Speak, Mr. Freeman, the art teacher, tells his class that they will "pick a piece of paper...on the paper you will find one word, the name of an object. I hope you like it. You will spend the rest of the year learning how to turn that object into a piece of art...You must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to every person who looks at it." (pg. 12)
Our goal is similar. Pick a piece of paper from the "hat". On the paper is a word, an object. Spend the rest of this unit writing 3 different stories about that object. Figure out how to make your object say something about our human condition; tell a story. The story can be nonfiction or fiction. It can be of any genre. Your story should speak to anyone who reads or hears it. Story length is up to you, but, again, a story MUST have a beginning, middle, and end. These stories should not be linked (like Rattlebone or The House on Mango Street) other than by the similarity of their object.
Get started on writing your first short story.
HOMEWORK: Complete the book Speak. There will be a test next class on the book. You should know the characters, the setting, the major events of the plot, and identify different characteristics of the bildungsroman found in the novel. See previous posts regarding the Coming of Age Story: Oct. 3, Oct. 12, Oct. 17, or Oct. 19.
Period 4:
In the book Speak, Mr. Freeman, the art teacher, tells his class that they will "pick a piece of paper...on the paper you will find one word, the name of an object. I hope you like it. You will spend the rest of the year learning how to turn that object into a piece of art...You must figure out how to make your object say something, express an emotion, speak to every person who looks at it." (pg. 12)
Our goal is similar. Pick a piece of paper from the "hat". On the paper is a word, an object. Spend the rest of this unit writing 3 different stories about that object. Figure out how to make your object say something about our human condition; tell a story. The story can be nonfiction or fiction. It can be of any genre. Your story should speak to anyone who reads or hears it. Story length is up to you, but, again, a story MUST have a beginning, middle, and end. These stories should not be linked (like Rattlebone or The House on Mango Street) other than by the similarity of their object.
Example: If I choose guitar, my first story might be a first-person POV coming of age story about a character who saves up his money to buy his first guitar to impress a girl. My second story might be a science fiction story about how, only armed with a guitar, the protagonist saves the Earth from an invading alien army of music haters. My third story might be completely different, told from the perspective of a guitar, discussing the problems it has with different types of human musicians and why it wants to retire.3 different NON-LINKED stories. Each story should be entertaining--and different from the others. Drafts of your 3 random word stories will be due Jan. 16. We will work on the stories in the lab on Thursday and Tuesday when we return from Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Get started on writing your first short story.
HOMEWORK: Complete the book Speak. There will be a test next class on the book. You should know the characters, the setting, the major events of the plot, and identify different characteristics of the bildungsroman found in the novel. See previous posts regarding the Coming of Age Story: Oct. 3, Oct. 12, Oct. 17, or Oct. 19.
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