October Assignments

Students continue to explore different literary genres and uncover writing skills they didn't know they possessed. In addition to daily writing prompts and reading excerpts by Maya Angelou, Victor Lavalle, George R. R. Martin and Stephen King, they completed four different "long" works this month.

1. One-Act plays: students continued honing their ability to write dialogue and added stage directions and prop/stage considerations.

2. Sympathetic writing: students considered how a story changes depending on its narrator's perspective. They watched this video of a civilian takeover of Best Buy and recounted the story through the eyes of several different participants.

3. "Chapter 1": Students wrote the first chapter of a novel, paying close attention to what a good first chapter doesn't tell its readers.

4. Interview stories: students interviewed each other and used one or more quote from the interview as inspiration for a short story.