Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Workshop & Revision

Complete your workshop requirements (see Nov. 30 post below). When you have completed this, please look through the comments posted and REVISE your draft. Try to address all serious concerns regarding your story. Write and revise, then label this new draft with a new draft #. For example: draft 1 becomes draft 2, draft 2 becomes draft 3, etc. Save these drafts for your portfolio.

Finished?
Complete your reading of the handout on SCENE given to you last class. Choose ANOTHER scene exercise and brainstorm.

Please study for your Martian Chronicles & PLOT quiz on Friday. What should you know? You should know the plots of the stories found in Martian Chronicles, note the title of each story, the characters, description and setting. Examine how the author opens or hooks the reader in each story and how the story ends. Examine the connection between one story on another. Look for plot elements such as cause and effect, exposition, rising action, complication, crisis/turning point, climax, denouement or resolution.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.