ASSIGNMENTS

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1. CHARACTER PROFILE STORY
Due Monday, Feb. 8

Your first assignment is to use the character profile assigned to you (from Prompt #3) and create a fictional scene of 250 or more words.
     Your assignment should

    * be typed and double-spaced
    * use a minimum of six categories from your character profile
    * be about your character's "proudest moment" or "most humbling experience

     Provide two copies of your piece—one for me, and one to be workshopped in class.


2. THE CHEEVER ARMS—A MODULAR ANTHOLOGY
Due Thursday, Feb. 25

Revise and edit the three scenes you have created for Writing Prompts 8-10. Bring a hard copy version into class on Tuesday, Feb. 23. Your scenes will be proofread and critiqued by your peers during class. You may now re-edit your scenes based on the feedback.

     On Thursday, Feb. 25, submit a new hard copy to Mr. Salvador in-class and an electronic version (.doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pages) to writerscraft.wss@gmail.com.

     This version will be graded and published as-is in a PDF anthology, the first of several in this class.

     A rubric will be provided on Monday, Feb. 22 in class.

 
3. THE COLUMN ASSIGNMENT
Due Friday, March 26

Study selected columns from a chosen columnist and write an analysis and an original column.  Your column must demonstrate your learning as a result of studying your chosen columnist.

A handout and rubric has been handed out in class for this assignment.


4. COMMONPLACE BOOK ASSESSMENT 
Due Thursday, April 15 - The day the Titanic sank! (by your own choice)


5. MAKING THE ORDINARY EXTRAORDINARY
Due Friday, May 7

Now that you have examined a number of pieces of writing by professional authors, you are ready to make the ordinary, extraordinary on your own terms.  This assignment is your opportunity to write a journal-like piece of writing in which you employ some of the techniques examined in Shields, Michaels, and Wong.  Choose any subject or event you wish and reflect on it by using a sentimental approach, by re-considering the event, by paying close attention to time and the way the event played out, or by any other technique of your own devising.

In approaching this piece of writing be sure to write in a first-person persona about something you know fairly well.  In this manner, your use of description will be enhanced enabling your piece to become extraordinary for your reader.

In addition, create a media construct (original art, past or current photograph, collage, etc.) to support your piece of writing.  Envision this media construct as being published beside your writing in a literary anthology.  Provide the caption which will accompany the media piece and a brief explanation of it (for the teacher).     
 
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