Please prepare your portfolio today as it is due at the end of class. The post for January 4 has all the details you will need.
Additionally, before the end of class, please choose your BEST short story (just the final draft) and drop it off in the DROPBOX with your name on the file.
Homework: Keep reading Woody Allen's Without Feathers. Check out the blog entry for Jan. 10 for help while reading.
Study for the Mid-term exam on fiction. The mid-term will be given on Wednesday. You should be familiar with the following:
The writing process: brainstorming, composing the first draft, revision (composing 2nd and subsequent drafts), editing & polishing, publication. (pg. 3-20, blog)
Types of short stories (blog)
The hook (pg. 203 & blog)
In media res (pg. & blog)
White space (pg. 164)
Ways to open a story (blog)
Ways to end a story (blog)
Point of View (POV) 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient (blog)
Character (blog)
Characterization (pg. 156 & blog)
Honest & Dishonest voice/reliable or unreliable narrator/speaker (pg. 154 & blog)
Setting (pg. 177, blog)
Locale (blog)
Symbols (pg. 243)
Regional writer (blog)
Flash forward/Flashback (pg. 234, blog)
Stream of consciousness (blog)
Protagonist (blog)
Antagonist (blog)
Foil (blog)
Minor, flat, stereotypical characters (blog)
Dynamic, round characters (blog)
Tone (pg. 216, blog)
Mood (blog)
Theme (pg. 270, blog)
Tense (pg. 233)
Conflict (pg. 231, 255, blog)
Creating suspense in stories (pg. 205, blog)
Dialogue (pg. 156-157, & blog)
Dialogue tags: speaker, thought, action tags (pg. 158, blog)
Repetition (pg. 168, pg. 189, 258, blog)
Show don't tell (pg. 179)
Plot (pg. 180, 189, blog entries)
Plot elements: exposition, rising action, crisis, climax, denouement, resolution, etc.
Short history of Drama (pg. 285)
Elements of drama: character, action, conflict, language, theme (pg. 296)
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