Fugitive Pieces Assignment

  Fugitive Pieces

1. Read opening pages of Fugitive Pieces aloud to pg. 14.  What images are strongest in your mind.
Write them down.

2. View opening of film and compare and contrast

3. Work on Test 2 Natalie Goldberg

HMWK: Read to page 54 End of "The Stone Carriers" for Wednesday

4. Fugitive Pieces Writing Assignment
A major writing assignment for this Marking Period is a short story utilizing some of the techniques you are exploring while reading Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces.

Let's call this assignment "The Story in Fragments":
After reading and discussing Fugitive Pieces, write a short story that uses some of the postmodern techniques and poetic prose that Anne Michael uses in the novel.
1. Your short story should be at least 5 pages long, double spaced, 12 point standard font.

2. Traditionally, it should have a central character (protagonist) dealing with some sort of conflict (self vs. self, self vs. other, self vs. society, self vs. nature, etc.).

3. Nontraditionally, the story should exhibit some of the storytelling devices we have been exploring: stream-of-consciousness, memory, poetic prose, flashback, flash forwards, nonlinear structure, excerpts from history, descriptive verbal photographs of people and places, songs, poems, etc.

4. Along the way, be prepared to share drafts and discuss your story with members of the class.

Due date: Week of Oct. 6 (for peer review)