Friday, April 12, 2013

Week 11: Draft Realistic Short Story


Read and react to one of the following autobiographical short stories (the one that you did not read previously): "Hair" by Malcolm X OR "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros.  Your reaction should be about a paragraph long and should briefly summarize the story as well as discuss what you notice about Malcolm X’s or Cisneros’s writing style that you liked and that could help you in your own writing.
Then, choose one of your story ideas (one of the ones that you wrote a descriptive paragraph).  Write a full first draft for that story.  It should contain the following elements:
·        A conflict (person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. society, and/or person vs. self)
·        Beginning (exposition), middle (rising action & climax), and end (falling action & resolution)
·        Sensory descriptions (imagery) of setting and at least one character
·        Dialogue


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