PPT-Short Story Workshop

John Hope Short Story Workshop Agenda Writing Overview The Short Story Structure Characters Conflict BREAK Description and Dialog BREAK The Dreaded Rewrite Summary 900am 1030am Teach. Genre Intro. What do we already know about short stories?. What short stories have we read?. Which authors or short stories do we know?. Why do writers write short stories?. What is the purpose of a short story?. What is a short story?. Have you ever read a short story?. If so, which one?. What are the parts of a short story?. . Short stories usually lack detail. .. Short stories are brief.. Short stories use P.A.C.T.S . to establish the narrative. . Ms. Eckert . Genre . A . genre. is a literary style or category.. Ex.- mystery, horror, romance, historical fiction, fantasy, novel, short story . A . short story. is a work of fiction that is shorter than a novel; typically can be read in one sitting (30 minutes to 2 hours). “A story is only as strong as the voices telling it… The only voice a story never needs is the author’s . Characters need to speak for themselves in their own distinct voices… Particularly in a short story, every word they speak needs to sounds like the speaker and move the story along.”. Ms. . Cross. You will be quizzed on these terms at the end of the . unit . and must be able to define them during activities throughout the unit. . Short Story:. A fictional tale of a length that is too short to publish in a single volume like a novel. Short stories are usually between five and sixty pages; as a result, they can be read in a single sitting. Usually, short stories concentrate on a single event with only one or two characters. . Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849). American writer during the time of Romanticism. Writer of American Gothic literature. Creator of the short story as a genre. Author of short stories, poems, and novels . The short story is short because of the following things:. Practice for Novel Book Clubs conducted by you!. How this will work.. As a class we will read three short stories.. With the first, “The Story of an Hour. ”. by Kate Chopin, I will model how we can create discussion.. “Battle Royale”. Choose Your Own. Concepts to be Learned: . Main focus-- 1. . . Genre and Text Structure- . What elements make up an effective short story? What is the structure used within the short story? How does diction and syntax play an integral part in creating atmosphere, mood, and/or tone. by: Altay, Shawn, Peter, and Justin. Pg. 211 “We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs”. Pg. 212 “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.”. “The Interlopers”. . Read the poem ‘A Poison Tree” by William Blake.. *. After you have read the poem. . underline. all the words you don’t understand, and look them up in a dictionary.. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character . Point of View. Theme. E. lements . of a short story. Setting: . The . time and location in which a story takes place. is called the Setting. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character . Point of View. Theme. E. lements . of a short story. Setting: . The . time and location in which a story takes place. is called the Setting. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story. Assist.Prof. . . Asmaa.Mukaram. . Saeed . Ernest Hemingway – ‘Cat in the Rain. . Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), first published by Richard Hadley of . English. What you need. A pen, paper, book or a device.. Learning intention. T. o understand the structures and features that define a short story..  . What you need to do. Continue to record ‘new vocabulary’ as you progress through the lessons..