Mon 3/14--On your journal on Canvas, please post the following:
Using the techniques you analyzed from your place passage and/or from other people's passage, write your own setting passage
You might describe a made-up setting that you plan to use in your upcoming story
You might describe another, totally funky setting you have no idea what to do with yet
You might describe a room in your house or another place you're very familiar with
Word count: 350 words
Write 550 more words on anything you wish (you can also continue the setting exercise above if you so desire). I'd encourage you to start brainstorming your next story!
Total of 900 words.
Tues 3/15--Read Writing Fiction, "Long Ago: Fictional Time," pp. 193-207.
Thurs 3/17--To post on Canvas:
For this assignment, please do one or more of the following options:
Freewrite on a story that you have in mind.
Brainstorm THREE story ideas (then write on one or more of them).
Look through your old freewrites and use one as the genesis of a story. OR combine two freewrites into one story
Total word count: 900 words.
Fri 3/18--NO SCHOOL!
Note: draft of your new story will be due on 3/25