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Character
Character Traits
Words Describing People Handout
Bonus activity: Ask your character
Character and Dialogue
How to Write Dialogue with Examples
Dialogue example and rules-Garrett
Dialogue assignment: Write 10 lines of dialogue between your character and one other character in your story. Make sure you use standard punctuation and capitalization.
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Review from Last Week:
Share out: Your character and one thing they might say
Breaking the rules of dialogue
Character and Setting
Where is home for your character?
Read “Why I Live in the Pacific Northwest” by Tom Robbins
Work on your own on your character assignments or dialogue assignment
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Character Arcs
Read “Types of Character Arcs”
Begin to think about your plot and how it will work with your character arc. We will begin plot next class.
Basic Plot-Plot Mountain
Hero's Journey
Hero's Journey (monomyth) video
The Writer's Journey (ex: Toy Story)
Assignment: Find or create a plot map that suits your plot
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Model Short Story
"Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer
Craft Lessons:
1) Semi-Colon
How to Use a Semi-Colon-The Oatmeal
Using semi-colons with purpose-video
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
Try to add some semi-colons, with purpose, to your piece (Don't add too many; don't go crazy.)
2) Extended Metaphor
Extended Metaphor: a definition (from dictionary.com)
What does extended metaphor mean?
What does extended metaphor mean?
An extended metaphor is a metaphor in a literary work, such as a novel or poem, that isn’t just used in one line but is extended over multiple lines or throughout the work.
A metaphor
is the applying of a word or phrase to something that’s not literally related in order to suggest a resemblance, as in She’s a walking dictionary (she’s not literally a dictionary, but her vocabulary resembles one).
Extended metaphors use this kind of comparison, but in a drawn-out and often complex way. When an author uses an extended metaphor, they will keep adding to it, developing it, or making reference to it. This can occur over more than one line, over multiple paragraphs, or even over the course of the entire work.
Extended metaphors are especially found in poetry and novels, but they can also be used in song lyrics, movies, speeches, and even nonfiction—anywhere metaphors are used.
Extended Metaphor: an example (from Jazz by Toni Morrison)
3) Motif
Motif definition: a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. a distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc., in a design, as in a painting or on wallpaper. a dominant idea or feature: Pulmonary problems were a grim motif in his life. (dictionary.com)
Motif examples in The Catcher in the Rye, Secret Life of Bees, Romeo and Juliet
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November 2nd
Warm Up: Before Breakout groups. Set yourself up.
1-Get pen and paper to write down questions and notes.
2-Review checklist
and decide what three questions you want your listeners to focus on
Once in groups
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