Tuesday, November 14 - Friday, November 17

Tuesday




Last day to work with your collaborators on your Alien / Power structure inquiry - presentations will begin on Thursday.

Quiz tomorrow - any questions about any of the terms???

Wednesday

Quiz on short story terms and devices.

Thursday

Begin presenting power structure inquiries.

Friday


 Complete power structure inquiry presentations - begin next unit!
Creative writing!

Warm-up
play Fade-out
http://www.languageisavirus.com/writing-games.php#.Wg5riLQ-dBw

Today:


Fun! Prizes!

Flash Fiction Challenge: X Versus Z

Another classic challenge, of which I am a fan.
Way this works is, below you will find two tables — X and Y! — and you will pick from those tables. That will leave you with a set of X versus Y — and from there, you will write a piece of flash fiction based on that parameter set. 

Post OneNote collaboration space using your pseudonym(s).

X

  1. Robots
  2. Vampires
  3. Monkeys
  4. Demons
  5. Pirates
  6. Kaiju
  7. Goblins
  8. Dragons
  9. Ghosts
  10. Gods
  11. Time Travelers
  12. Cops
  13. Librarians
  14. Bards
  15. Skeletons
  16. Interdimensional Floating Jellyfish Creatures
  17. Aliens
  18. Cats
  19. Werewolves
  20. Musicians

Y

  1. Zombies
  2. Monks
  3. Spiders
  4. Heroes
  5. Fairies
  6. Robots
  7. Assassins
  8. Mutants
  9. Cannibals
  10. Mermaids
  11. Scientists
  12. Evil
  13. Serial Killers
  14. Cultists
  15. George Washington
  16. Superheroes
  17. Artificial Intelligence
  18. Swamp Monsters
  19. Cheerleaders
  20. Elves

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