Midterm Assignment due 3/23/14, 11:59 P.M; send in a word.doc file to gmajer@stevenson.edu
1. Revised version of Creature poem.
2. Finished version of story, minimum 1500 words.
SECOND PHASE
Expand the story to 1500 words minimum, including the following:
1. Rising story arc from opening conflict/dramatic question through 3-5 stages and then reaching
2. story crisis/climax where conflict/dramatic question reaches high point and is resolved
3. concluding with 1-2 paragraphs of story resolution where the protagonist recognizes the changed situation (in relation to opening point of conflict/dramatic question).
EXAMPLE:
OPENING CONFLICT/DRAMATIC QUESTION (About .5-1 page long; you set up characters and setting and ground situation.)
The high-school guy must deal with 3 enemies/friends in order to save his younger sister from a bad crowd she's fallen in with. Dramatic question: will the brother succeed or fail in the quest?
RISING ACTION (About 1 page each for 1 and 2; about 1.5 page for 3)
What happened with enemy 1.
What happened with enemy 2.
What happened with friend/enemy 3, the toughest because he/she was both.
STORY CRISIS/CLIMAX (About 1 page; this can use suspense--don't settle the conflict too fast. Give this part maximum sensory and motion/action detail with a sense of the ambient setting. You also can use reversals--one side almost wins, but then the other comes back stronger, and they go back and forth a couple of times before the decisive turn.)
The brother succeeds or fails in saving his younger sister.
STORY RECOGNITION/REALIZATION (About .5 page; short and sweet)
The brother recognizes that he has won and saved his sister, but he also has lost a friendship in the process.
1. Revised version of Creature poem.
2. Finished version of story, minimum 1500 words.
SECOND PHASE
Expand the story to 1500 words minimum, including the following:
1. Rising story arc from opening conflict/dramatic question through 3-5 stages and then reaching
2. story crisis/climax where conflict/dramatic question reaches high point and is resolved
3. concluding with 1-2 paragraphs of story resolution where the protagonist recognizes the changed situation (in relation to opening point of conflict/dramatic question).
EXAMPLE:
OPENING CONFLICT/DRAMATIC QUESTION (About .5-1 page long; you set up characters and setting and ground situation.)
The high-school guy must deal with 3 enemies/friends in order to save his younger sister from a bad crowd she's fallen in with. Dramatic question: will the brother succeed or fail in the quest?
RISING ACTION (About 1 page each for 1 and 2; about 1.5 page for 3)
What happened with enemy 1.
What happened with enemy 2.
What happened with friend/enemy 3, the toughest because he/she was both.
STORY CRISIS/CLIMAX (About 1 page; this can use suspense--don't settle the conflict too fast. Give this part maximum sensory and motion/action detail with a sense of the ambient setting. You also can use reversals--one side almost wins, but then the other comes back stronger, and they go back and forth a couple of times before the decisive turn.)
The brother succeeds or fails in saving his younger sister.
STORY RECOGNITION/REALIZATION (About .5 page; short and sweet)
The brother recognizes that he has won and saved his sister, but he also has lost a friendship in the process.
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