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Styslinger - "Multigenre-Multigendered Research Papers"Allen - "Create Flow: Pulling it All Together"
Romano - "Multigenre Stirrings"
Blitz - "Teaching Literature Through the Multigenre Paper: An Alternative to the Analytical Paper"
I want to be a flexible teacher who's willing and able to adapt to whatever situation pops up. Some students do not want options, or at least not too many options, while others desire more freedom when it comes to assignments. For the past three weeks I have been working with my freshman class on a research paper. It has been painful to put it lightly for everyone in involved I can safely say. The students, my CT, and me all seem to be dragging through the assignment like a Common Core death sentence. My CT wants class to learn research methodology because its in the standards and because apparently some sadist put MLA citations on the End of Course Exam for English I.
Does anyone not use EasyBib.com or similar websites to fill out the works cited and bibliography page of every crap essay that gets churned out?
Romano describes the teaching community's consistent downplaying of creative writing as a worthwhile cognitive pursuit. I have found the opposite to be the case in the practicum. Students have a lot of difficulty with creative writing. A lot of that comes down to self-censoring and inexperience. While students are unlikely to be tested on their ability to write seamlessly connect highly disparate genres, the mental faculties involved will likely give them the tools to adapt to testing situations.
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This short story assignment builds on a previous list writing engagement (If you knew me you would know) and a refection on a personal "antagonist."
Name:
Writing
a Short Story
Today
we will be writing a draft of a short story.
The story will star yourself as the protagonist and will feature a
person vs. person conflict. You will
decide on a setting and an antagonist for this conflict.
Setting
The setting of a short story is the
time and place in which it happens. Authors often use descriptions of
landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons or weather to provide a strong sense of
setting.
Choose one (1) of the following
locations to set our story or make up your own setting.
a. an abandoned parking lot at
midnight
b. a
crowded mall on Black Friday
c. an
A.C. Flora playoff football game
d.
graduation day at A.C. Flora
e.
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Characters
A character is a person who takes part in the action
of a short story or other literary work.
Protagonist/Main
character: Cast yourself as your story’s protagonist. Think back to our “If you knew me you would know that…” list for
interesting details that you may want to include to describe yourself to the
reader.
Antagonist: Use an
antagonist that you came up with from Monday, come up with a new one, or use of
the following antagonists in your story.
(Remember that the antagonist does not have to be evil/bad, just that
they clash with the protagonist in some way.)
a.
Darth Vader
b.
Lord Voldemort
c.
Mr. Parr
d.
The Joker
e.
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***You can have additional characters, but the minimum
required will be a protagonist and antagonist***
Conflict
The conflict is a struggle between two people or
things in a short story. The main character is usually on one side of the
central conflict.
For this story we will be using person
versus person conflict.
Plot
A plot is a series of events and character actions
that relate to the central conflict.
Your job will be deciding what
happens between the protagonist (yourself) and the antagonist. This will make up the plot of your story.
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