Category: English 9

Short Story Writing Process

Gwendolyn

My Story

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Core Competency Reflection

One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is brainstorming. For this project, we started with a brainstorm. We just though of ideas and started writing one idea. We were allowed to change our idea later, but we just started writing whatever came to mind. This was helpful because I got something on the paper, I didn’t just end up staring at the computer trying to come up with the “perfect idea” the whole time.

A skill I have developed to make my creative activities better is rewriting my story. I had to go back to my writing many times to revise it and fix the things that needed to be fixed. The next time I write something I will use this strategy to make my work as good as it can be.

When it seems the good ideas just won’t come to me, I would listen to music to help calm myself or create space in my mind to get myself in the mood of my book. When I couldn’t think of a way to take my story that felt like a good idea, I would listen to music. Usually it was music that was in the same mood as where I wanted to take my story. This way I could get my mood into the same mood as the story and I could put out more words that I felt went in the right direction.

One goal I have for my writing is to take more risks. I do already take some risks in my writing but I want to add more. to achieve this goal I will try to write more short stories that have different writing techniques in them.

Act III Dialogue Collaborative Project

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Script

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Following Script Format

I constantly compared my work to the model as I was writing the script up. I started writing my script by writing my name, block, and the date in the top right hand corner of my page. I then wrote up my script. after I had written up my script with minimal formatting I finished it up. I made the actions three tabs in and the speeches two tabs in so everything was spaced out. Then I was finished.

Core Competency Reflection – Collaboration

I can work with others to achieve a goal. I chose this because this project was a project where I worked with a partner to complete the script. I helped them and they helped me, and together we worked as a team to hand in our best work.

I can take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share. In the project we split up the work evenly between us and bounced ideas back and forth.

I can apply constructive strategies to navigate misunderstandings and conflicts. When my project partner didn’t understand how to translate something into modern English or how to format something I helped them by explaining it to them so that they would understand how to do it in the future.

Midsummer: The Movie

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My Movie

Character, Setting, and Mood

To choose character markers Emilio and I read through the shortened story and found bits of the story that explained how the characters looked. For example the story takes place in Greece so I think that the characters would have darker skin because it’s warm in Greece and people spend a lot of time outside. For the setting the story mentioned that the characters were in a forest and it also mentioned that the story sets place in Athens. The story mostly sets place in the forest so I imagine that the mood would be quite whimsical so we put in some whimsically music in.

Core Competency Reflection

Working collectively-I can work effectively with Emilio and split up the work so that we each did our fair amount. We also worked out details together like the music and the slide order.

Evaluating and developing-I can personalize the video so that you can recognize that it was me and someone else who did it and we didn’t plagiarize anything.

Connecting and engaging with others-I can connect with other people to understand what their thought process is, to be able to work with them better.

Building relationships-I can build relationships more easily when I have been working with them and