By now, if you followed directions and were somewhat productive, you should have at least 2, perhaps 3 short story drafts completed for the Bradbury project. Using these drafts, create another short draft (500-1,000 words roughly) where you connect the themes, characters, or settings found in your first two drafts. You want (when all put together) 3 interrelated stories similar to the style Bradbury uses in The Martian Chronicles: he reuses his setting (ex. Mars), advances time so that each story is placed in chronological order (January 1999, August 2030, August 2057, etc.), reuses characters (such as Hathaway, Sam Parkhill, or Col. John Wilder), and many stories deal with the corruption of the innocent Martians and their culture--in fact most stories and the collection as a whole echoes the fears of The Cold War (see your notes on the 1950's).
All three of your drafts should be arranged to create a mini-chronicle and turned in to the sub or my in box by the end of Thursday's class.
HOMEWORK: Please complete The Martian Chronicles: "The Watchers", "The Silent Towns", "The Long Years", "There Will Come Soft Rains", and "The Million Year Picnic".
Expect a quiz on the short story collection when you return from Memorial Day break. You should be familiar with recurring characters, major stories (the longer ones) and their plots, and themes found in the collection. Be able to connect your notes on Bradbury to the significance of the writing style or the book, as well as using your notes, research, and reading to explain how the 1940's/1950's, the Homestead Act, and the early pioneering days in America helped inspire Bradbury in his stories.
All three of your drafts should be arranged to create a mini-chronicle and turned in to the sub or my in box by the end of Thursday's class.
HOMEWORK: Please complete The Martian Chronicles: "The Watchers", "The Silent Towns", "The Long Years", "There Will Come Soft Rains", and "The Million Year Picnic".
Expect a quiz on the short story collection when you return from Memorial Day break. You should be familiar with recurring characters, major stories (the longer ones) and their plots, and themes found in the collection. Be able to connect your notes on Bradbury to the significance of the writing style or the book, as well as using your notes, research, and reading to explain how the 1940's/1950's, the Homestead Act, and the early pioneering days in America helped inspire Bradbury in his stories.
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