Wednesday 2/27

Article:  "Get Loose and Set Your Writing Free"

1. Read w/ partner.  Be prepared to comment on selected excerpts.  15 mins:  Share.

2.  Activity:

**Choose a "moment" in your narrative where you can "pause" the action and reveal more of your 

character's thoughts.    *15 mins:  Share with class.

3.   Discuss with partner the basic plot line of your story.  Theorize why you as an artist are writing this

particulare fiction.  Try to gauge possible themes you are generating.  *10 mins:  Share. 

Tuesday 2/26

Activity:

1.  Short Story Drafts:  Share with a partner.  **Select one scene:  enhance/edit/rewrite... **15 minutes:  Explain the significance of the change to class.

Next, **Choose a "moment" in your narrative where you can "pause" the action and reveal more of your 

character's thoughts.    *15 mins:  Share with class.

2.  Discuss with partner the basic plot line of your story.  Theorize why you as an artist are writing this

particulare fiction.  Try to gauge possible themes you are generating.  *10 mins:  Share.  

***Reminders:  Fiction Powerpoints due:  March 1st

                                 Short Story:  Final copy due March 8th  (5-10 pgs typed)

Monday 2/25

Freewrite:  Respond to the quote below:

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

1.  Discuss Journal

2.  Review/Collect Miss Brill Analyses  *(Have students share excerpts of their work)

3.  Short Story Drafts:  Share with a partner.  **Select one scene:  enhance/edit/rewrite... **10 minutes:  Explain the significance of the change to class.

Next, **Choose a "moment" in your narrative where you can "pause" the action and reveal more of your 

character's thoughts.    *10 mins:  Share with class.

4.  Discuss with partner the basic plot line of your story.  Theorize why you as an artist are writing this

particulare fiction.  Try to gauge possible themes you are generating.  *10 mins:  Share.  

Wednesday. 2/20

**Read Inquirer editorial.   5 min write response:  Share.

"Do Now":  Explain the difference between round and flat characters in your notebook.
5 mins - Share.


Activity:  Select any passage from the story.   Describe context.  Analyze significance.   (Take notes for your analysis).  --Work w/ partner: Present to class.

1.  Analyze Character of Miss Brill?  Profession?  Beliefs? Passion?

2.  Identify main conflict.

3.  Explore generation of theme.   How is it achieved?   Consider key passages.

4.   Read /Analyze end.   What can readers surmise?  (Almond cake?)

Tuesday 2/19

Journal:  Respond to the Shakespearean Quote below:

All the World's a Stage

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts...

1.  Discuss Journal

2.  Consider:  Have you ever "listened in" on someone else's conversation?  Even pretend/wish that 

you were a part of someone's life?  Share your thoughts with a partner:  5 mins... **Whole Class

3.  **Review short story genre attributes:  Rough Draft due Thursday  2/21  (25 points)

4.  Introduce:  Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill"  

2 page analysis due Monday  2/25

Be sure to address:

Miss Brill's character:  Flat or Round?

Theme?

Narration

Wednesday 2/13

Describe the last lie that you told?  To whom did you lie?  Why?

**Read Shirley Jackson's "Charles".

Analyze short story; relate short story genre elements

Read "Charles" by accessing the link below:

http://mvhs.nbed.nb.ca/sites/mvhs.nbed.nb.ca/files/noteattach/teacher/3768/sh_ort_story_charles_by_shirley_jackson.pdf

Tuesday 2/12

Activity:

1.  With a partner: Identify key components/ aspects of a short story

10 mins:  Share.  ***Preview Flipchart


2.  View video:  Fiction Writing:  5 min write:  Discuss

3.  Read/Profile characterizations?

4.  Consider:  Did you ever lie as a kid?  Explain in 5-7 sentences.

5.  Read:   Shirley Jackson's "Charles"  (Class website link)

Monday 2/11

Freewrite:  Respond to the quote below:

“Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. ”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

1.  Discuss freewrite.

2.  Creating Character Article:  Exercise 2

*Read/Discuss

Activity:  Become a characte in your story.  Consider your "inner life"

Complete:

I want....

I need....

I fear....

I dream....

5 mins:  Share

3.  Read/Profile Characterizations...

Circulate work in small groups...

**Invite students to read to the class.  

Tuesday 2/5

1.  Handout:  "Creating Character"

2 pg summary/ reflection due Friday  2/8
--important ideas
--strategies that will help you
-personal views on creating characters  **Read beginning: Identify main ideas

****Final copy of characterization due Monday  2/11

3.  Profile students' characterizations

4.  View Scene:  La Mama Morta

(10) min write:  Assume point of view of either character and relate your feelings.  

--Share

Activity:  Share charcterization:  Collaboratively generate thoughts that reveal character. 

Monday 2/4

Freewrite:  Respond to the quote below:

“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.”
― Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones

1.  Discuss Journal

2.  Read/Profile Character sketches.  ****Draft Check  (25 points)

3.  Assign article:  "Creating Character"

--Preview beginning.  HW:  Read Entire Article.  2 pg summary/reflection due Friday:  2/8