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SHORT STORY Project. REQUIREMENTS: MLA Format At LEAST 3 pages Include 5 Vocab. Words from the Vocab. Packet 2 Literary Devices At Least 2 Characters Some Dialogue 1 st or 3rd Person Point of View Narrator A Critical Lens Paragraph. Option One – Write a ShORT Story.
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REQUIREMENTS: MLA Format At LEAST 3 pages Include 5 Vocab. Words from the Vocab. Packet 2 Literary Devices At Least 2 Characters Some Dialogue 1st or 3rd Person Point of View Narrator A Critical Lens Paragraph Option One – Write a ShORT Story
CHOOSE A FOCUS • A Person’s flashback to a childhood event • A Person Overcoming an Obstacle • A Community Event • A Mystery/Fear Incident • PROPOSE YOUR OWN IDEA Option One – Write a ShORT Story
CRITICAL LENS Select one quote. Interpret it and explain how your shot story proves or disproves the quote. • “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” – George Santayana, Little Essays, 1920 • “Love is not just caring deeply; it’s, above all, understanding.” -Francoise Sagan, Le Soir, 1960 • “When truth is buried, it chokes, it gathers such explosive force that on the day it breaks out, it blows everything up with it.” – Emile Zola, “J’accuse!” L’Aurore, 1898 • “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968 Option One – Write a ShORT Story
REQUIREMENTS: • Read an approved short story independently • must be the appropriate reading level • must be 4-6 textbook size pages • may find in a book or online (and print it out) • cannot have been read for another class • Select and write down 5 new vocabulary words, with the sentence they are in, and define them • Complete a Lit Lingo on the short story • Complete a selected essay topic – 4 Body Paragraph minimum Option two – READ A SHORT STORY