After reading both one-act plays, you need to comment on the all of the following questions. Answers should be in complete, well-written sentences Comments are due APRIL 25 by midnight!!
What surprised you about the format/structure of the one-act? Explain by providing specific examples.
What do you think will be the biggest obstacle to overcome in writing a one-act play? Explain why.
Name 3 elements that all one-act plays should have in them and provide an example from one play that we read to support your ideas.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Critiquing Poetry
Create your own critique sheet for poetry. Use the following elements of poetry to help you workshop poems:
Form and Structure
Voice and Speaker
Mood/Tone
Message/Theme
Figurative Language/Imagery
Sound Devices
Flow
Form and Structure
Voice and Speaker
Mood/Tone
Message/Theme
Figurative Language/Imagery
Sound Devices
Flow
Robert Frost assignment
Go to the following link to read Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" poem
www.wsu.edu:8001/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_road.html
Use the Critiquing Poetry post to analyze the poem
Make one comment on THIS POST (not critiquing poetry post)regarding your interpretation of poem and explain. Comments due by midnight Thursday 3/24!
Prepare your critique sheet for workshopping and/or discussing on Wednesday 3/23.
This assignment is worth 10 points. (3 points for comment and 7 points for the critique sheet and discussion on Wednesday)
www.wsu.edu:8001/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_road.html
Use the Critiquing Poetry post to analyze the poem
Make one comment on THIS POST (not critiquing poetry post)regarding your interpretation of poem and explain. Comments due by midnight Thursday 3/24!
Prepare your critique sheet for workshopping and/or discussing on Wednesday 3/23.
This assignment is worth 10 points. (3 points for comment and 7 points for the critique sheet and discussion on Wednesday)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Some Suggestions for Looking Critically at Fiction/Creative Nonfiction
Some Suggestions for Looking Critically at Fiction/Creative Nonfiction:
You don’t have to answer ALL of these question, but you should address at least one per section to score well on your comment sheet!
The Shape and Focus:
Which character do you think the piece mostly about?
What about that character’s situation is interesting enough to sustain the story?
What is the central problem or tension in the story? Is there enough tension?
Based on the beginning, what issues do you think the reader will expect the piece to address?
How the Story Works:
Does is have a strong beginning? Is the runway into the story too long?
Is it clear to the reader where the story is in time and place?
Does it move through time smoothly, or are you sometimes confused? Pinpoint the places that confuse you.
Are there places that are jarring, where stronger transitions are needed?
Is there information that doesn’t belong and/or seems out of place or too much like exposition?
Are there chunks of exposition (back story) that could be broken up and feathered into the story?
Is there a balance between narrative and scene?
Character:
Is there more than one point of view represented? Whose? Why?
Are the characters believable? Does anything they do seem contradictory to the information we have about them?
Are the characters clearly motivated?
Are the characters sympathetic? (do you understand them, not do you like them)
Is the dialogue realistic and natural? Does dialogue serve a purpose? (reveal character, reveal emotion, give exposition) Is any dialogue repetitive?
Are the characters’ voices consistent and distinct from each other?
Are emotions shown rather than told?
Other Things to Isolate/Observe:
Pace—are there places that drag, places where you find yourself disconnected and skimming? Where? Why?
Telling/Concrete details vs. abstract or imprecise descriptions
Setting
Resonance (images that mirror or echo)
Management of time (flashbacks and flash forwards)—How important is the past to the story? How do past events inform and affect the action in present time?
Language—are adverbs overused? Is passive voice used? Are similes and metaphors used that are consistent with the point of view?
Is there something visual on every page? (Can other senses be employed as well?)
You don’t have to answer ALL of these question, but you should address at least one per section to score well on your comment sheet!
The Shape and Focus:
Which character do you think the piece mostly about?
What about that character’s situation is interesting enough to sustain the story?
What is the central problem or tension in the story? Is there enough tension?
Based on the beginning, what issues do you think the reader will expect the piece to address?
How the Story Works:
Does is have a strong beginning? Is the runway into the story too long?
Is it clear to the reader where the story is in time and place?
Does it move through time smoothly, or are you sometimes confused? Pinpoint the places that confuse you.
Are there places that are jarring, where stronger transitions are needed?
Is there information that doesn’t belong and/or seems out of place or too much like exposition?
Are there chunks of exposition (back story) that could be broken up and feathered into the story?
Is there a balance between narrative and scene?
Character:
Is there more than one point of view represented? Whose? Why?
Are the characters believable? Does anything they do seem contradictory to the information we have about them?
Are the characters clearly motivated?
Are the characters sympathetic? (do you understand them, not do you like them)
Is the dialogue realistic and natural? Does dialogue serve a purpose? (reveal character, reveal emotion, give exposition) Is any dialogue repetitive?
Are the characters’ voices consistent and distinct from each other?
Are emotions shown rather than told?
Other Things to Isolate/Observe:
Pace—are there places that drag, places where you find yourself disconnected and skimming? Where? Why?
Telling/Concrete details vs. abstract or imprecise descriptions
Setting
Resonance (images that mirror or echo)
Management of time (flashbacks and flash forwards)—How important is the past to the story? How do past events inform and affect the action in present time?
Language—are adverbs overused? Is passive voice used? Are similes and metaphors used that are consistent with the point of view?
Is there something visual on every page? (Can other senses be employed as well?)
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