Flex Your Creative Muscles

Morality Play

This (very short) article defines the morality play.  After reading this, write a story or a poem or a play that fits into this genre.  This is an assignment that asks you to use your creativity.  Have fun with it. I think in order to commit to all of the difficult reading and thinking you are currently doing, your brain needs to be stretched a bit.  This assignment will help!

It's All About the Plot...bout the plot bout the plot!

Read A Rose for Emily.  Analyze the short story's plot—not only how it develops in the text, but what effect it has on the work as a whole. To help you with this task, keep this definition of an analysis in mind. An analysis, instead of trying to examine all the parts of a work in relation to the whole, selects for examination one aspect or element or part that relates to the whole…A literary work may be usefully approached through almost any of its elements…so long as you relate this element to the central meaning of the whole (1373).—Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense

Happy Valentine's Day!

Whether you have started dating or not, this is an important talk about dating in our current culture.   Listen to this presentation and take notes.  When you are finished, analyze the presentation by discussing the type of diction used and how that establishes the tone of the piece.  Does Jason Evert use imagery or figurative language?  Give examples of each.  Also identify any shifts in the presentation and explain how they enhance his message. Then, give an overall reaction to the talk.  

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/810680/LH_Y_27-How_To_Date_Your_Soulmate.mp3

Fiction Anyone?

Read Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff. Explain how it's artful pattern of plot structure, characterization and point of view result in a consummately "well made" story.

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/huntsnow.html