1. Please read and discuss A Streetcar Named Desire with one other
student. Answer the 2 questions about light and sound on the post below.
DISCUSS these points, you do not have to write responses down.
2. Please turn in your homework notes on A Streetcar Named Desire. This is due today.
3. Today, please continue to write your play script. The script draft is due by the end of MONDAY, Jan. 14. Please refer to yesterday's post concerning this project. (see post below)
4. If you need a break from writing your script, please write a poem for extra credit for the Black History Performance.
5. If you need a break from writing your script, please study for your mid-term exam. See material below.
Your mid-term in The Craft of Writing will be held on Wednesday, next week, Jan. 16. This is also the date that your Black History poem draft is due, if you are writing one. Please study for this exam. Look over old tests/quizzes, re-read the blog and handouts on this material.
The exam will cover the following material:
The complete writing process, techniques to avoid writers block, theme, the four common themes in literature, techniques and tips about writing poetry, fiction, and plays.
Poetry: line breaks, stanza forms, sound devices, diction, tone, voice, caesura, enjambment, cadence groups, onomatopoeia, assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony, cacophony, rhyme, diction, texture, imagery, figurative language, metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, symbol, allegory, meter, iamb (iambic), trochee (trochaic), dactyl (dactylic), anapest (anapestic), spondee (spondaic), couplet, tercet or triplet, quatrain, sestet, octave, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, Terza Rima, Shakespearean sonnet form, free verse, prose, persona, moral or message.
Fiction: plot; plot structure: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, crisis or turning point, climax, denouement or resolution; conflict; the different types of conflict; linear versus non-linear plots; setting; setting (artificial or manufactured and natural); exterior versus interior settings; locale; functions of setting; regional writers; POV; the different types of point of view; omniscience; multiple-viewpoint; skeptical POV; objective 3rd person POV; choosing a point of view; hamartia; round versus flat characters; characterization; character types; portraying a character; persona; description (particularly using description to characterize a character); character key terms; ways to develop a character; structuring a story and techniques to structure a story (Nov 1 post); ideas for fiction; genres; reader's expectations of any of the following genres: science fiction, romance, literary fiction, historical fiction, mystery/thrillers, fantasy, realistic fiction, etc.; types of readers: fantacists, realists, pragmatists
Drama: Being a playwright (handout chapter); What Makes a Play (handout chapter); how plays differ from films and novels; the use of conflict in script writing; Alfred Uhry & Driving Miss Daisy; setting: interior/exterior; plot: cause and effect; Peter Shaffer & Amadeus; Mozart; tips about what makes a play effective; Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire; Memory plays & the characteristics of a memory play; synecdoche; expressionism; premise; 10-minute play form; flat/round characters; proper play script format; tips when writing a play script; the unities; how to turn ideas into plays (handout chapter); advice on how to start a play; the magic-if; Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh.
2. Please turn in your homework notes on A Streetcar Named Desire. This is due today.
3. Today, please continue to write your play script. The script draft is due by the end of MONDAY, Jan. 14. Please refer to yesterday's post concerning this project. (see post below)
4. If you need a break from writing your script, please write a poem for extra credit for the Black History Performance.
5. If you need a break from writing your script, please study for your mid-term exam. See material below.
Your mid-term in The Craft of Writing will be held on Wednesday, next week, Jan. 16. This is also the date that your Black History poem draft is due, if you are writing one. Please study for this exam. Look over old tests/quizzes, re-read the blog and handouts on this material.
The exam will cover the following material:
The complete writing process, techniques to avoid writers block, theme, the four common themes in literature, techniques and tips about writing poetry, fiction, and plays.
Poetry: line breaks, stanza forms, sound devices, diction, tone, voice, caesura, enjambment, cadence groups, onomatopoeia, assonance, alliteration, consonance, euphony, cacophony, rhyme, diction, texture, imagery, figurative language, metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, symbol, allegory, meter, iamb (iambic), trochee (trochaic), dactyl (dactylic), anapest (anapestic), spondee (spondaic), couplet, tercet or triplet, quatrain, sestet, octave, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, Terza Rima, Shakespearean sonnet form, free verse, prose, persona, moral or message.
Fiction: plot; plot structure: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, crisis or turning point, climax, denouement or resolution; conflict; the different types of conflict; linear versus non-linear plots; setting; setting (artificial or manufactured and natural); exterior versus interior settings; locale; functions of setting; regional writers; POV; the different types of point of view; omniscience; multiple-viewpoint; skeptical POV; objective 3rd person POV; choosing a point of view; hamartia; round versus flat characters; characterization; character types; portraying a character; persona; description (particularly using description to characterize a character); character key terms; ways to develop a character; structuring a story and techniques to structure a story (Nov 1 post); ideas for fiction; genres; reader's expectations of any of the following genres: science fiction, romance, literary fiction, historical fiction, mystery/thrillers, fantasy, realistic fiction, etc.; types of readers: fantacists, realists, pragmatists
Drama: Being a playwright (handout chapter); What Makes a Play (handout chapter); how plays differ from films and novels; the use of conflict in script writing; Alfred Uhry & Driving Miss Daisy; setting: interior/exterior; plot: cause and effect; Peter Shaffer & Amadeus; Mozart; tips about what makes a play effective; Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie; Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire; Memory plays & the characteristics of a memory play; synecdoche; expressionism; premise; 10-minute play form; flat/round characters; proper play script format; tips when writing a play script; the unities; how to turn ideas into plays (handout chapter); advice on how to start a play; the magic-if; Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh.
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