Monday, Oct 19 and Tuesday, Oct 20
1. Journal
2. Do we want to finish One Act Plays? If yes, we will. If no, we won’t! 🙂
3. Begin new short story assignment:
Story ideas – three elements
Choose a set of three elements and write a story that contains all three of them!
- A stolen ring, fear of spiders, and a sinister stranger.
- A taxi, an old enemy, and Valentine’s Day.
- Identical twins, a party invitation, and a locked closet.
- A broken wristwatch, peppermints, and a hug that goes too far.
- Aerobics, a secret diary, and something unpleasant under the bed.
- An ex-boyfriend, a pair of binoculars, and a good-luck charm.
- An annoying boss, a bikini, and a fake illness.
- The first day of school, a love note, and a recipe with a significant mistake.
- A campfire, a scream, and a small lie that gets bigger and bigger.
- Abandoned underground hideout, ceramic frog, a headache
OR pick one of these:
- A babysitter is snooping around her employer’s house and finds something disturbing.
- At a Chinese restaurant, your character opens his fortune cookie and reads a strange message. What is it and what happens next?
- Your character’s boss invites her and her husband to dinner. Your character wants to make a good impression, but her husband has a tendency to drink too much and say exactly what’s on his mind…
- It’s your character’s first day at a new school. He or she wants to get a fresh start, develop a new identity. But in his or her homeroom, your character encounters a kid he or she knows from summer camp…
- Your character has to tell his parents that he’s getting a divorce. He knows his parents will take his wife’s side, and he is right…
- You are a coal miner in 1914. You have a family to feed and a physical problem. You encounter something odd down in the mine one day…
- Your character suspects her husband is having an affair and decides to spy on him. What she discovers is not what she was expecting…
- Your character has a secret. What it is?
- After your character loses his job, he is home during the day. That’s how he discovers that his teenage son …
- At a garage sale, your character buys an antique urn which she thinks will look nice decorating her bookcase. But when she gets home, she realizes there are someone’s ashes in it…
Wednesday, October 21
1. Journal
2. Writing with Art Wednesday:
3. Poetry assignment
Thursday, October 22
1. Journal
2. Continue working on short story
Friday, October 23
1. Journal
2. Can use as a free reading day or work on your short story