To Start:
Read "Shitty First Drafts," an excerpt from Annie Lammot's book, Bird by Bird. Then, answer the questions. (You may answer in a GoogleDoc or on paper, but commit to just one for the week.)
In Class: First, we're going to examine some example stories and a draft of the rubric for this project.
Then we'll have work time. Use it wisely to get words down without being a perfectionist. At Home: Continue working on your first draft as needed. They are tentatively due in class on Thursday.
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To Start:
Using the character and story ideas you've developed so far, free-write on the following prompt:
In Class:
Looking Back:
To Start: We're going to create "found poems" from the first page of Stickfighting Days, a short story by Sierra Leonean Olufemi Terry.
In Class: We're talking about how to structure engaging stories, using Freyteg's story structure and the the "Plot Map" assignment in Google Classroom. If you finish early:
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