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2. REQUIREMENTS: MLA Format At LEAST 3 pages Include 5 Vocab. Words from the Vocab. Packet 2 Literary Devices At Least 2 Characters Some Dialogue 1 st or 3rd Person Point of View Narrator A Critical Lens Paragraph 2

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4. CHOOSE A FOCUS A Person’s flashback to a childhood event A Person Overcoming an Obstacle A Community Event A Mystery/Fear Incident PROPOSE YOUR OWN IDEA 4

5. CRITICAL LENS Select one quote. Interpret it and explain how your shot story proves or disproves the quote. “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” – George Santayana, Little Essays, 1920 “Love is not just caring deeply; it’s, above all, understanding.” -Francoise Sagan, Le Soir, 1960 “When truth is buried, it chokes, it gathers such explosive force that on the day it breaks out, it blows everything up with it.” – Emile Zola, “J’accuse!” L’Aurore, 1898 “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968 5

6. REQUIREMENTS:  Read an approved short story independently must be the appropriate reading level must be 4-6 textbook size pages may find in a book or online (and print it out) cannot have been read for another class  Select and write down 5 new vocabulary words, with the sentence they are in, and define them  Complete a Lit Lingo on the short story  Complete a selected essay topic – 4 Body Paragraph minimum 6

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8. Obstacles Describe the main character. Discuss obstacles the main character faced. Did these obstacles produce a better or worse life for the character? Did the character surmount these obstacles? Or How was the character destroyed by these obstacles? What was the final outcome for the character? Essay Topic 1 8

9. Influential Person Describe the main character Describe and discuss a person who influenced the main character, either positively or negatively. Explain the specific influence the person had on the main character Explain the effects of the specific influence fully. Essay Topic 2 9

10. Turning Point Describe the main character. Describe the turning point(s) that influenced the main character. Explain the specific influence the turning point had on the main character and its effects fully. What was the final outcome? Essay Topic 3 10

11. Friday, May 6 – Go over topics – Stories must be selected over the weekend. Monday, May 9 – Begin writing or begin reading (Writing Lab?) Tuesday, May 10 – Thursday, May 12 Continue writing or begin work on short story analysis (Writing Lab?) Friday, May 13 – Short Story Projects Due – TEST GRADE Extra Credit given for oral presentation 11