Sharing, Writing, Looking Forward

Today, you'll be printing out and sharing your story progress. In the past blogs, it's been suggested that you have your stories at a certain length. You'll be in your workshop groups, sharing what you have thus far and giving feedback to your peers. It's a nice time to have some creative sharing. Here's how it's going to work:

1) Print out your stories. 

2) Take turns reading stories aloud to each other in your groups. Everyone does this. No recording, no notes, nothing. Just read out loud; give your words life! It helps to be able to hear them.

3) After hearing a story read out loud, take a minute or two to record impressions, thoughts, feedback, etc. This may be on scrap paper, etc. 

4) Once everyone has read aloud, pass the stories around the group and read them quietly, adding comments to the paper. This way, there should be comments from everyone in the group on each story being shared. Remember that valuable feedback will help your group members develop their story further. Phrases like, "it's good", "it's bad", "keep going", etc. aren't helpful without supporting reasons and suggestions. 

At the end of class, I'm collecting these printed out stories, with comments on them. Each story must have your name on it, along with comments from your group. Again, this is due at the end of class.

If there's more time after you've gone through the stories of each group member, you're not done. Use the comments, continue writing. Bear in mind I'll still be collecting the printed copies with comments on them.

Also:


If you've not gotten a substantial amount of writing done to share in a group,you'll be writing instead. Except today, you're to print out your story and hand it to me by the end of class. No exceptions. The 750-1000 word mark wasn't a suggestion. This is where you should've been since your last writing session. The stories must continue and end! 

Homework:

You're going to have fully finished stories by the time spring break starts. They'll be due 4/10. This is consequently the last day of my student teaching (for this class), so I'd rather have some fun with y'all than working the whole time.