Tuesday 1/22

Welcome 11th Graders!!!!!!!!!


1.  Introductions:  Overview of course:


1.  Genre - Short Story     A.  Characterication   B.  Conflict   C.  Plot    D.  Theme

***Conflict fuels plot

2.  "Read like a Writer":  Meticulous scrutiny of diction, syntax, narrative elements


Question:  What is fiction?

Consider Jean Baudrillard's quote:

"Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future."


10 min Write:  Share.


HW:  1 PG   Formulate your own personal rules of writing.  Provide a rationale.  Due  Thursday.