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This document provides writing prompts and exercises for students. It discusses choosing a theme, developing authentic characters through their point of view, creating conflict to engage readers, and revising writing through multiple drafts. Students are asked to write a short story focusing on emotional descriptions and dialogue to convey a specific theme, then refine it over multiple readings before sharing with a writing group for feedback. Developing characters, viewpoints, conflicts and revising are emphasized as ways to improve writing.
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- 1. Welcome Back! Please grab your writing journal, & your note taking tools
- 2. Checking In... How did your writing assignment go? What were your successes? What were your challenges? Did you find choosing a theme and weaving into your writing liberating or challenging?
- 3. Home Writing Challenge Exchange Looking for feedback to Challenge us to excellence
- 4. Did You Know... Authenticity-is defined as, something that is real and genuine The character of your story- is, who inhabits your story. Your character must be authentic. Authenticity makes a story powerful and memorable. It can be seen, heard & felt by the character & the reader
- 5. Point of View This character is who the story is about. S(he) will use the words “I” . S(he) only knows the thoughts & feelings of one person, it’s self. This is termed 1st person POV. This character is referred to as “you”. This POV knows the thoughts and actions of more than one character, including the main character. We call this the 2nd person POV. The 3rd POV knows all & sees all. *In our life which POV do we possess? Which would you want to possess. Why? What would be the benefits and drawbacks of each one?
- 6. Drawing in your Audience For a story to be great there must be conflict. The conflict can be within the mind or life of a character, and even between characters. When describing the conflicts use emotion. The reader must feel the pain, the conflict, the anger, the rejection. Describe the character’s body language in response to the conflict. Use strong verbs in these descriptions.
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- 9. Conflict I reside in her heart , yet I live alone in the shadowed past -in the uncertain future I am torn -My heart is peaceful my spirit fearful and confused conflict within I am all at once freed by love but I am imprisoned none- the -less I wander aimlessly slowly approaching mankind's final destination once there ,will my restless soul- finally find its peace By Angela Davis
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