- If you missed a class last week, please go to the archives and find out what you missed.
- Keep reading - each day at home and each day in class. Remember to bring your book to class!
- Wednesday for 1.3 and Tuesday for 2.1: Your myth is due.Please hand in your rough draft AND your final draft. (The assignment was to choose a natural or supernatural phenomenon and create an explanation for this phenomenon. Write an interesting and well-developed story that fully details your explanation of this phenomenon. Your story must have a title page that highlights an appropriate and creative title and includes a visual of at least one scene in the story. Also, use your plan for improvement to check your writing and we'll see if it improves with the next rubric!
- Thursday for 2.1: Plot graph with the following labelled, defined in your own words, and with an example from a favourite movie: introduction, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conclusion.
- Tuesday: Due today - a written response to one of the following prompts with regards to Acts 1 through 3 - I will assess it with the Reading Rubric
- Discuss Macbeth's use of language any time he discusses or thinks about killing Duncan.
- Discuss Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's relationship.
- Discuss the lust for power.
- Thursday: Come prepared to perform your Readers' Theatre role. We'll try to get through all of Act 5. Also, come prepared to share a reflection of Macbeth that you see in the real world.
Writing 12
- Next meeting: November 2nd at 7:15am.
- First assignment: describe the view from a window - any window, bedroom, restaurant, bus, wherever - as seen by the character you gave birth to this morning and who has just received either very good or very bad news. Have some specific news in mind but do not mention it in the exercise. Don't even hint at it. The reader should be able to deduce if not the exact nature of the news, the tenor of it, whether it's good or bad, simply by the way you describe the view. The object here is to give the reader a sense of your character's internal life by relying on meaningful imagery alone. (This exercise is adapted from "through your character's eye" by Michael Knight in Naming the World.)
- 2nd assignment: make a list of ten things that might elicit a reaction from your character. (if he hates to swim, put him in a rickety boat, etc) Now write a scene using one of those situations and your character. (Adapted from Noah Lukeman's The Plot Thickens.)
- 3rd Assignment: Write a scene in which your character engages another character in dialogue. Make the scene mostly dialogue with little exposition. That means that your reader will understand what is occuring through what your characters say and how they say it. To make this scene more challenging, have your characters talk around an issue rather than confront it head on. For some help about writing good dialogue, check out this blog post: http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/how-to-write-dialogue
- All assignments are due at our November 2nd workshop. Please bring them in manuscript form, which means typed and printed in double spaced. Times New Roman. Size 12.
- Katherine has brought this to our attention - thank you, Katherine! http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ National Novel Writing Month is coming up in November. The idea goal is to write up to a 175 page (Grade 11 can write anywhere from 17,000 to 35,000 words, and Grade 12 is anywhere from 25,000 to the full 50,00 words) novel in between midnight October 31st and midnight November 30th. I participated last year, and unfortunately didn't make it, but I'm going for the full 50,000 words this time around. I was hoping that some of the other writers in Writing 12 might want to join me, I know it's a huge undertaking but it really is fun to just write and not focus on whether everything is "perfect", and it would be nice to have a group who could support each other.
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