Twist of Fate
Select a short story from Section 8.
First Draft: Write a 500 – 750-word essay that responds to the following questions:
- What is the name of the story? The author? Year published?
- What is the story about? (short paragraph)
- Who is the main character and what are the main qualities?
- What is the “twist of fate” in the story? What did you think when you read it? How did it make you feel?
- What is the message?
- Think of an updated version of the story. How would you modify the story to make it take place now? Describe the names, places, and other elements.
- DIY Blockbuster! A lot of movies and television series are based on updates and modifications of classics. Here’s a chance to create your own.
Final Draft: Select a short story from Section 8.
Write a 500——750-word essay that responds to the following questions:
- What is the name of the story? The author? Year published?
- What is the story about? (short paragraph)
- Who is the main character and what are the main qualities?
- What is the “twist of fate” in the story? What did you think when you read it? How did it make you feel?
- What is the message?
- Think of an updated version of the story. How would you modify the story to make it take place now? Describe the names, places, and other elements.
- DIY Blockbuster! A lot of movies and television series are based on updates and modifications of classics. Here’s a chance to create your own.
Final Version: Expand your draft and add more details and 2 or 3 more paragraphs to the DIY Blockbuster!
Discussion 3: My Life of Literature
Please describe a book you read that you enjoyed. What was it that fascinated you? Please describe when you found the book, what drew you to it, and the things you found most interesting. (75 – 150 words for your first post, please respond to 2 other posts (25 – 50 words))
Discussion 4: What is it about graphic novels that hook people and make them want to collect them?
Graphic novels are considered literature by scholars of literature and the humanities. Why might that be so? Have you read any graphic novels? Describe one graphic novel and explain what you found most interesting. Check out some of the graphic novels here: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/explore/topic/graphic-novels (Links to an external site.) . (75 – 150 words for your first post, please respond to 2 other posts (25 – 50 words))
Discussion 5: DIY Poetry
After you read several works of poetry, did you give it a try? Feel free to share a short poem (either one you wrote or one you found) and explain what you really liked about it. Here’s a convenient Poem Guide by the Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/guides (Links to an external site.)
Activity 3:
Go to the Troy online libraries. Visit JSTOR and EBSCO databases.
Find an article on an author of one of the works you read.
Prepare a Works Cited entry for it.
Go to the Troy online libraries. Visit JSTOR and EBSCO databases. Find an article on an author of one of the works you read. Prepare a Works Cited entry for it. Troy Library https://trojan.troy.edu/library/
How to Use Encyclopedia Information in Your School Papers and Essays
Activity 4:
Go to the Troy online libraries. Look at the ProQuest databases. Find an article, thesis, or dissertation on a work that you read, or an author of a work in your book.
Prepare a Works Cited entry for it.
Go to the Troy online libraries. Look at the ProQuest databases. Find an article, thesis, or dissertation on a work that you read, or an author of a work in your book.
Prepare a Works Cited entry for it.
https://trojan.troy.edu/library/ (Links to an external site.)
Writing Strategies
writing strategies – narrative / exemplification essays (Links to an external site.)
