House on Mango Street Audio book
As you preapre for your first piece of work on Dialogue and Narration, listen to at least two of the vignettes or short stories in PART ONE of A House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
Based on your work on dialogue, discuss what changes you would make to CHANGE some of the narration to actual dialogue, so the characters are SPEAKING DIRECTLY rather than the narrator is telling what they are thinking or doing.
Change at least four lines to show this in action. YOU MUST FIRST TELL WHICH STORY YOU ARE USING, AND SAY WHICH LINES AND PARAGRAPHS YOU ARE REFERRING TO; that is, you must cite the exact source carefully. Keep the context of what the original story is so you don't change the meaning, but make it "COME ALIVE."
YOUR WRITING MUST HAVE NO USE OF INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE!
The classmates who comment on your blog would determine to what extent you are able to successfully keep the original langauge of the story while demonstrating your effective use of dialogue in the text.
Happy blogging!
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Period 2 ONLY: The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin
Copy of "The Story of an Hour" by Chopin
Having read the short story by Kate Chopin, develop a two paragraph blog posting in which you discuss the most interesting section of the story. Explain and discuss the specific technique that Chopin uses to develop this most interesting section of the story. Note that your response must NOT entail the ENTIRE story. The idea is to hone in on the author's CRAFT in developing the fiction.
In discussing craft, you may comment on the author's development of ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: narration, dialogue, syntax, diction, text structure, theme, moral etc.
Remember to respond to another student's posting in an very intuitive way. Responses that are merely summaries of what the person has written will result in a lower grade according to the Blog rubric.
Happy blogging!
Having read the short story by Kate Chopin, develop a two paragraph blog posting in which you discuss the most interesting section of the story. Explain and discuss the specific technique that Chopin uses to develop this most interesting section of the story. Note that your response must NOT entail the ENTIRE story. The idea is to hone in on the author's CRAFT in developing the fiction.
In discussing craft, you may comment on the author's development of ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: narration, dialogue, syntax, diction, text structure, theme, moral etc.
Remember to respond to another student's posting in an very intuitive way. Responses that are merely summaries of what the person has written will result in a lower grade according to the Blog rubric.
Happy blogging!
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