The Creative Process Post; Day 2: Story Project; The Thief of Always Quiz

Period 3: Please refer to the handout from last class by Scott McCloud.

The Creative Process: Six Steps of Art/or Becoming an Artist from Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.

1. Idea/Purpose
2. Form
3. Idiom
4. Structure
5. Craft
6. Surface

In your journal, reflect for a couple minutes on the different stages. Which stage(s) do you seem to identify with most?

Then: When you finish reading, respond to Scott McCloud's ideas by writing a short personal response to the following question ON YOUR BLOG. Please answer ALL parts of the question; it has two essential parts:

• What is your 4-year goal concerning creative writing and the arts. Why did you enter this program (be honest, the idea is to "discover" truth through writing about it) and where do you want to take your writing in the next four years? (i.e. what is your long term goal concerning creative writing?)--if you don't have a goal, make one now.
• Second part: What is your relationship with reading? What sorts of literary genres do you prefer? If you don't read, why not? If you do, what helps you read? If you are a skilled reader, what do you think caused you to be skilled? If you are a weak reader, why do you think you are a weak reader? Explore the concept of reading.

Please complete your response and post it on your BLOG for credit. Realize that incomplete work results in lower grades, etc. Learn to use class time and home time efficiently.

If you did not finish reading The Thief of Always, please do so now or read and study the book for your test 4th period.

Period 4: Please take the test on The Thief of Always. This is NOT an open book test. Please take your test on our Google Classroom and submit it from there.

If you finish the test early (before the end of class) please continue to work on writing your project:

• Write a story that includes the following elements: (we started this story last class...pick a chapter heading from The Thief of Always and use it to inspire a story.
• Your story will be graded on or should have the following elements:
1. A beginning, middle, and end
2. A motif (remember that you will need to establish your motif by repeating your event, object, or character at least 3 times--see previous posts for help.)
3. Personification (at least 1 or more examples of personification)
4. Similes (at least 1 or more examples of similes)
5. Names that add to the theme and tone of your story
6. Transformation (your protagonist should be dynamic and change in some way (physical or mental or emotionally, such as maturing in a coming of age story, etc.) by the end of the story.
7. Horror tropes (see link for some ideas)

HOMEWORK: None. If you did not complete your reading of The Thief of Always, please read the book and bring your books back with you to our next class for our class discussion on the novel.