For Monday: Bring to class Essay on "Araby"." Page 127 in green consumable book. Please attach the marked up prompt page to the top of your essay. Bring also your short story. This should be a pretty darn good draft.
3/18 Have read "Araby" by James Joyce. Bring 100 word story to class
3/19 Bring typed final 100 word story to class. Begin The Importance of Being Earnest. We will read in class. You will respond to the play outside of class. If you miss class or any part of class you must make up that reading. No passes to restroom, counselor, vp etc while we are reading together. Students who show up late with a late pass will take a quiz the following day to ensure they have kept up with the reading. You would rather be in class. All students will receive questions for discussion in class and reflection outride of class. For Wednesday: Read Frank Bruni in the New York Times:Bribes to Get Into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field. The Moral Wages of the College Admissions Mania For Thursday: Write an. essay on a passage from Araby. This is is a 40 minute essay, but you will write at home. The passage is in the green consumable book you got last fall (p 127), but I will make copies available. Short Story Assignment
Short story writers use the various techniques we have been (and continue) to work with: fictionalizing reality, creating and developing characters through interviews or character charts, practicing perspective, inserting dialogue, revealing tone, and plotting conflict. All the writing exercises we have practiced have readied you for this first assignment. Task: Write a short story that develops at least one character, incorporating the elements of fiction writing that we have practiced: perspective, tone, characterization, plot development, detail and setting. You may include dialogue or symbols if you want, but it’s not a requirement of this assignment. How do you begin? Fiction is often divided into plot/action driven vs. character driven work. But any good writing will need to carefully develop both. A great action story ends up begin flimsy without meaningful, real characters, and by the same token, richly developed, round characters fall flat without well thought-out conflict (doesn’t have to be action, the conflict could be internal). Or, write down several conflicts or problems on paper and pick one with your eyes closed. There are hundreds of ways you can begin; the most important thing is to begin. Some other options: Write about a character in a painting Give a minor character in another work their own story How long should it be? It’s difficult to say. A short story might be fully fleshed-out in a few pages and have interesting, round characters with fully a fully realized plot. Or, it may take a dozen or twenty or thirty pages to do so. I don’t expect a twenty or thirty page story, however, you should plan on 4-6 pages as a rough estimate. Rough draft is due Monday 3/25 Hello All,
A few things before we get to the daily: Outside writing: If you would like to do a yearbook spread, please let me know soon so I can help you. Free Friendship ad and food are still available. Two contests are coming up immediately: Physicians for social responsibility Sacramento chapter essay contest is due March 23. CTA Caesar Chavez essay contest is due March 15 .... Good money for both. Keep looking. Many deadlines have recently passed. Monday Return essays. Wordiness exercises in purple book. Discuss A Rose for Emily. Discuss problem areas on Heart of Darkness passage essay. Homework: Bring to class tomorrow TEWWG essay. Read Carver: "Neighbors" (136). Tuesday: Bring Their Eyes Were Watching God essay to class. Be prepare to discuss Neighbors. Homework: Read "First Confession" Pick one paragraph or section of 5-10 lines. Write a fat paragraph on how the tone of the passage is affected by literary elements, such as character, dialogue, setting, audience and diction. For Thursday: Read A&P and "Interpreter of Maladies." Write three observations and two questions for each For Friday Read Kafka "A Hunger Artist" (398) and Marquez "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" (406). Friday: Writer's workshop on outside writing. Bring something you are working on for outside writing. Bring a sheet explaining what you will do for outside writing. What you plan to write, what the audience is, what the due day is. Write a short essay exploring one of two passages in Their Eyes Were Watching God by comparing it to another text. This essay must quote the text but you do not need citation. The essay must be two pages (500-700 words). 50 Points. (If links don’t work or you have a print version of this paper you can google the secondary texts. Due Monday
For Monday. Your essay was turned in over the weekend, right? Good. Quiz on Their Eyes. Book discussion
On Tuesday: Read Fall of the House of Usher in class. (p 234 in red book in front of room, also in green lit book.) Answer questions 7 and 9 p 264 red book.... answer questions about para 1, page 265 red book. For homework, read for Thursday in your fat green Literature book: The Black Cat, Cask of Amontillado and Masque of the Red Death (starting on page 516 in green book). Take notes for discussion. What interests you or surprises you? What questions do you have? Then read the following critical essays excerpts on Poe: 1 (p 529), 2 (530), 10 (543), 12 (547) Wednesday. Discussion of Their Eyes. Assignment for Monday: Passage analysis of TEWWG. This will be an in class type essay, but you will write at home. This is due Monday. Thursday: Discussion of Poe. Read for Friday: Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" and O'Connor "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (575) We will discuss the Southern Gothic literary type in the short story on Friday. Looking ahead to week of 3/11 TEWWG essay is due Monday. You will also begin reading some micro fiction (also called flash fiction) for Monday in preparation for writing a very short story (100 words max, mostly for practice with an element of narrative). You will also get the assignment for a somewhat longer story that you will have a couple weeks to work on. Don't forget you have an outside writing assignment coming due. If you want to try the journalism option see me. I have friendship pages available! |
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