Personal and Cultural Identity
Summary Explanation of Assignments
Here is a quick overview of the assignments for this unit. However, be sure you read over the specific assignment instructions that follow for each one. Review the marking rubrics for the assignments before you start.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Setting, Conflict, Ray of Hope
You will develop a narrative arc that clearly identifies a setting, a conflict, and a resolution to help your character escape that conflict. You could even write a narrative poem or an epic poem.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Epiphany
Not to coin Oprah, but this is one of those A -Ha! moments. Try to find a moment in your own relationships or personal values and abilities where you have learned to see things in a new way.
ASSIGNMENT 3: High Points, Low Points, and Turning Points
This is where you will make connections between formative moments in your life and use those personal experiences to develop a personal narrative.
ASSIGNMENT 4: Snapshots
Write about where you live. Use your words to illustrate the setting. Reveal something about your town that is specific to you.
ASSIGNMENT 5: Editing FORUM
Go through the 3 Grammar Resources listed under Course Resources. These sites are from an online Grammar textbook called The Bare Essentials. There are examples, practice exercises, and practice tests.
Do the practice tests in Unit 2 (SENTENCES) and Unit 3 (GRAMMAR). If you are not achieving 100% on these tests, review the lesson in the EXAMPLES and the do some practice EXERCISES to review.
In this forum, comment on which of the tests you found easiest. Which one was most difficult? Was there a concept in these practice tests that was unfamiliar to you? How might you begin to apply these learning lessons into your own writing? Can you see where you might use some of these conventions of language? Provide a discussion of your results and their applications into your creative writing.
ASSIGNMENT 6: PROJECT - Advice from an Author
Listen to a Canadian author read a selection from his work. Then choose which part of this conversation you would like to discuss: the overview, his suggested writing assignment, or a conversation about jobs in the writing/publishing industry.