You are sooo wonderful. I love that you appreciate literature. I can see it in your eyes and I can see it in your smiles.
If you were absent today, you must find a copy of Naming the Baby and read the story "The Girls". It is a story written by a student so it offers us a sample on which we can model our stories.
Your job before the Xmas holidays is to submit a story similar in style and length to the ones studied during class.
I'm looking for the same attention to detail that you mastered during the poetry unit, plus attention to point of view, character development and conflict.
You must keep that glass full without spilling it, says author Audrey Thomas. If you have not yet read Audrey's books, ask me for a recommendation. She is a contemporary of Alice Munro and she lives in Victoria and on Galiano Island.
You must keep that tension.
You must use detail to reveal, forshadow. Patrick Lane calls it detail as motive.
Tonight: Write one scene for a story. It could be an intor, an ending or a flashback. Use the stories we have studied, plus your collection of stories as your guides.
Know what a scene is. Know what to include.
Know your point of view choice and your verb tense and you are off.
Write for half an hour. Bring in your creation to class tomorrow to read to a partner.
