This Is How I Live My Life

Your assignment for the week is to create a prose piece that discusses how you approach life.  It must be 750 words (400 for lab students).  It should be proofread to ensure a minimum of errors.  You can approach this in any way you like.  Here are some things to consider:

• things you value in yourself
• things you look for in a friend
• things you are absolutely unwilling to bend on
• things that annoy you
• faults that are forgivable in your eyes
• faults that are unforgivable in your eyes
• is it ever necessary to lie? When?
• what is your greatest accomplishment?
• what was your biggest mistake?

This assignment is due on Friday at the end of class.  No exceptions.

Bi-directional Poetry

Your assignment is to create a poem that can be read both forwards and backwards.  It is a challenging assignment that can bring a multitude of benefits to your writing; it can open up the possibility to perceive new possibilities in word structure, as well as add depth and dimension to a single poetic concept.

This assignment also teaches the importance of comma placement. Since your poem has to be read both forwards and backwards, reorganization reagarding comma placement becomes crucial in making your poem readable in both directions.  For today's part of the assignment, do not include any commas.  We will return to the comma placement portion at a later time.

Because this assignment is so difficult, I only ask that your poem be a minimum of seven lines, with a minimum of three words per line.  It is due at the end of the period.

Here's an example I constructed to help guide you:

Peaceful and quiet
eternal sleep makes it so
death is transformation
soon comes change
pain wilting slowly
like dying flowers
ending is beginning

Face

Your assignment is to go online and find a picture of an adult face that interests you. Study it. Then write a piece, in poetic or narrative form, that describes what experiences have shaped that face. Why does it look the way it does? What has this person gone through? Create a story for the individual and the marks upon their face.
Make sure to copy and paste the link to the picture at the top of your response, as a reference (since you cannot post images into the comment section).
Length - 400 words.
Due - Wednesday

Hint: Search for "portrait," since the word "face" has some issues.

End of the World

Your assignment is to create a three-page story about how the world will end. This story can go in any direction you'd like. You can make it humorous or serious, but try to make your story as creative and original as possible. You are competing. The person who writes the best story, as judged by your teacher, will receive an exemption from the next long writing assignment (however, you may choose to complete the exempt assignment for extra credit).

Format: Times New Roman, double spaced, 12 point font.
Due Friday, November 16, 2012

Ode to Sandy

Your assignment is to reflect on the past several days, and construct a written piece about some aspect of the storm and its effects.  Your response can be in any form you like.  The only requirement is that it is 300 words in length.  It is due at the end of the period.