Using your previous journal writing and the brainstorming you have been doing (with characterization, character sketches, setting description, etc. (ex. 9.1-9.3)) put the first draft of your story together. Call this draft #1. Your setting should change locale, weather, time at various points in the plot. Each new scene should complicate and develop characterization of your protagonist.
Title your first draft. Good titles at this point can be the setting or the name of the protagonist.
HOMEWORK:
On Wednesday, Nov. 4 (there is no class on Tuesday) the following work is due:
--Draft #1 (exercise 9.4)
--Read the short story "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" by Amy Hempel. In a short essay, discuss and examine how Hempel uses characterization and setting to effect you as the reader in the story. Use specific examples from the text to support your analysis and explain how Hempel uses characterization and setting to write a good short story.
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