Monday, Ap. 30 2018

Creative Writing:  Monday, April 30

Objectives/Essential Questions: Can You...

W.3 Construct a narrative in the form of a short story

Using imagery, engaging details and language, and dialogue.

Homework:  

1. Rough draft short story due Monday, May 7.

Agenda:

1. Calendar/Agenda (2 min)

2. Scenic vs. summary narration using your pottery example from
last Wednesday (5 min)

Summary Narration: Summary narrative, which often spans the gaps
between scenes in a scenic narrative, compresses time (think montage):
They moved to three states in three years. Oregon was by far the soggiest;
Arizona the driest. What made each worse was the monotony of the same.

  Scenic Narration: It operates in something close to real time, describing
specific actions in considerable detail.From David Guterson’s Snow Falls
on Cedars:"He did not know how to conduct himself and the recklessness
he felt about everything was as foreign to him as the sea foam breaking over
the snowy boats and over the pilings of the Amity Harbor docks, now
swamped and under water. There was no answer in any of it-not in the
boats lying on their sides, not in the white fir defeated by the snow or in the
downed branches of the cedars" (428).

3. What examples of scenic or summary narration have you
written for your own short story?

4. Complete Obituary for favorite character(parts 3-5): 15 min. TURN
IN AT END OF PERIOD. I WILL NOT TAKE LATE OBITUARIES.

5. Continue writing your short story (Finck w/ be conferencing).