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Writer’s Craft Summative project 1: publication
Create a publication of your own design. The publication can be anything you wish, but it must contain your original writing.
You may work as individuals or in groups of your own choosing. Groups may NOT exceed 3 people. Trust me on this one. If you’re working in a group, you will share the mark evenly. It’s up to you to decide if you can trust the people you’re working with. You will be interviewed separately about your publication to assess your individual understanding and contribution to the project.
You must make 7- 10 copies of your publication. Basic materials will be provided for you. You are free to purchase your own if your wish. You are also encouraged to consider how you can use recycled materials. You must keep your publication economical. If I suspect that your publication cost in excess of $20 to produce, you will lose marks. Keep your receipts!!!
Step 1: proposal
Write a 200 – 250 word proposal in which you describe what you are planning to do for your project. Have clear objectives about content, give some thought to design.
Content:
- a description of the project, including references to style, genre, subject matter.
- why you are doing this, what you hope to accomplish.
- what you think will be the challenges in accomplishing this project
- what you might need to learn in order to complete the project and where you can get this knowledge
Your proposal must be typed.
Due: week of December 23
Note: as this is NOT an arbitrary deadline, you will lose marks for late submissions, 1 mark per day. (late proposals must be e-mailed to me but they might not receive feedback until after the winter break).
Step 2: just do it.
Step 3: January 16-20 Interviews with Ms. Parrish
Sell your publication at the Student Publishing Fair, at Lunch in main Foyer. You choose the price. I will purchase one copy from each of you. (Date TBA)
EWC4C/U Summative Part 2: Independent Study:
For your independent study, you get to choose what aspect of the writer’s craft you wish to study, and how you wish to go about it. Your project can be either research based, or creative, or some combination of the two. The idea is to fully explore an idea that is relevant in some way to the course.
Some ideas:
- book-making – take it to the next level. Make a series of different books in different styles
- author study- read a selection of work by any author in any genre and present your findings in either a research format or creative format
- the writer’s life: listen to a number of podcasts or read interviews with several authors to study what the writer’s life is life. Present your findings in either a research or creative format
- genre study- read a selection of work in a specific genre or style, and present your findings in either a research or creative format
- interactive fiction- write a work of interactive fiction. Observe what happens when the class plays it.
Step 1: proposal & conference
Write a 200 – 250 word proposal in which you describe what you are planning to do for your project. Meet with Ms. Parrish to discuss.
Content:
- a description of the project
- why you are doing this, what you hope to accomplish.
- what you think will be the challenges in accomplishing this project
- what you might need to learn in order to complete the project and where you can get this knowledge
Your proposal must be typed.
Due: Week of December 23
Note: as this is NOT an arbitrary deadline, you will lose marks for late submissions, 1 mark per day. (late proposals must be e-mailed to me but they might not receive feedback until after the winter break).
The final project is due January 20, 2012, and worth 10 % of your final mark.
Course expectations evaluated through this project:
Questions? Brainstorming?
| Criteria: reflecting on writing | below level 1 | level 1 | level 2 | level 3 | level 4 | |
| knowledge and understanding of objectives | objectives are clear | what objective? | some sense of objective | growing sense of objectives | clear sense of objectives | I can see the finished product in my mind |
| communication of objectives | objectives are clearly expressed | huh? | if I work hard, I can understand what you’re saying | growing sense of clarity | very clearly expressed | it reads like butter! |
| thinking and inquiry- anticipates challenges, and creative problem solving | proposal demonstrates thorough consideration of challenges | you have no idea what you’re getting yourself into | you’ve thought of one or two challenges | you’ve thought a few challenges | you’ve thought of most or all challenges, and begun a plan to solve them | you’ve got it all figured out, researched, down to the last detail |
Fill out the character dossier for the character you were describing last week.
ANswer as many questions as you can.
character dossier
ROOM
The room object is the core of IF as it creates geographic locations (indoors or outdoors) that are part of a map.
The first room is created like this:
The Foyer is a room.
DESCRIBING THE ROOMS
Room descriptions (the text displayed to the player when they first enter a room or whenever the player types ‘look’ or ‘L’) are created by placing the description between double quotations immediately following the room declaration.
The Foyer is a room. “The Foyer is an austere space containing no furnishings.”
The THING Object
Any object defined within the world is a thing and will be portable by default. Normally, we do not have to declare objects specifically as things other than in several exceptions.
The following examples are equivalent for creating a pencil:
This creates an object called a pencil that is located in a room called the Foyer. It can be picked up, carried, or dropped by the player but not much else.
Poetry Composition
Using your topic of interest, write three different poems.
Each poem should be different from each other in style or form.
Each poem should demonstrate something you have learned about poetry from either our work in class or your investigations.
At least one of your poems should demonstrate something you have learned about your topic from your investigations.
At least one of your poems should contain an example of enjambment.
Stronger poems will demonstrate a love of language and new words, and so will use some of the new words you have been given that relate to your topic- and maybe more than you have found on your own.
*NOTE*
One of your poems must use one of the following verse forms:
Sonnet
Triolet
Sestina
Villainelle
Ghazal
If you are having difficulty remembering the different styles of poetry we have looked at, look at the Complete Poetry Profiler. It will help you remember how poems can be so different in so many ways!
Process:
We will be working on these poems in class today and tomorrow.
Bring your completed “public draft” poems to class on Monday.
On Monday, we will do an editing class.
Your final poems, and a reflection on each will be due on Thursday.