Last class you were asked to write a 500-1,000 word short story either taking place in a researched decade, or in the future. Today, go back to your previous story draft and attempt the following:
1. Write a new draft of a new story. Use your previous draft (see previous post below) and take a minor character, setting, or event mentioned in that story.
2. Now, advance the clock a few years to make your story use a setting in the future. You can age your minor character, show how other events in the future affect your setting, or write another story that has a similar event or theme as your first story, but with different characters.
Use the stories in Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles as models.
3. If you finish your second story draft today, feel free to begin your last story draft (due Thursday). This story should link your first two in some way. This means, by the end of this project, you will have 3 interrelated stories. Use The Martian Chronicles as a model.
All three drafts of your work should be turned in to the sub or my in box by the end of Thursday.
HOMEWORK: Please read the following stories in The Martian Chronicles: "The Naming of Names", "Usher II", "The Old Ones", "The Martian", "The Luggage Store", and "The Off Season"
"Usher II" alludes to the classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. You can read the story here, if you'd like. Many authors use allusions when writing their work.
1. Write a new draft of a new story. Use your previous draft (see previous post below) and take a minor character, setting, or event mentioned in that story.
2. Now, advance the clock a few years to make your story use a setting in the future. You can age your minor character, show how other events in the future affect your setting, or write another story that has a similar event or theme as your first story, but with different characters.
Use the stories in Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles as models.
3. If you finish your second story draft today, feel free to begin your last story draft (due Thursday). This story should link your first two in some way. This means, by the end of this project, you will have 3 interrelated stories. Use The Martian Chronicles as a model.
All three drafts of your work should be turned in to the sub or my in box by the end of Thursday.
HOMEWORK: Please read the following stories in The Martian Chronicles: "The Naming of Names", "Usher II", "The Old Ones", "The Martian", "The Luggage Store", and "The Off Season"
"Usher II" alludes to the classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. You can read the story here, if you'd like. Many authors use allusions when writing their work.
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