Write a short story on “Letter from Birmingham jail” Martin Luther King Jr.
Write a short story on “Letter from Birmingham jail” Martin Luther King Jr.
May 3, 2020 Comments Off on Write a short story on “Letter from Birmingham jail” Martin Luther King Jr. Uncategorized Assignment-helpSo far, you’ve been reading and an interpreting literature; now you’ll practice creating. Your final assignment for this course is to develop a creative piece based on something we’ve read together this semester.This assignment is comprised of:•Creative piece•Critical reflection•Works citedYou’ll also submit a proposal before beginning this assignment, as well as a peer workshop (see Blackboard Final Project folder).I.Creative PieceStart by selecting a favorite text we’ve read this semester (it’s possible to do a film, but much more difficult). Your job is to create a new piece inspired by the original. There are lots of ways to do this, but here are some ideas:Fan Fiction: You could write the prequel or the sequel to a text, or choose a minor character and rethink the story through their eyes. Tell a story about what this character might have done, outside of the action of the story. What might s/he have been like when s/he was younger? What might she be doing when the narrator is not focusing on her? What might he do after the story is over? You could write a crossover story in which characters from two different texts meet one another, or substantially change the genre of a story. Adaptation: Rewrite or reimagine your text in a different genre (as Elizabeth Dinkova did in her musical version of Stephen King’s Rage). A poem might become a short story or vice versa. A story could become a play, comic, podcast, or short film. You could even create and scan in an oil painting or sculpture. Or you could change the fiction subgenre: Perhaps Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” becomes a science fiction story in which the cat comes from another dimension.Re-Vision: If you select an older piece, you could reimagine it in our contemporary moment. Consider, for example, Edna Pontellier in 2020, or imagine the narrator of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” stuck in her house because of COVID-19. You could write a speech inspired by Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” that considers his argument in the context of the 2020 election.NotesoMake choices with real consequences: try to do something intellectually and creatively powerful with your project. The final piece should be markedly different, but recognizably connected to the original. oWhenever possible, do not contradict the facts and details of the original text. You should not, for example, claim that Delia, the main character of “Sweat,” was actually a ghost all along. Similarly, you could further explore the character of Sykes: you could write a sequel in which he doesn’t die (since his death is not final in the story), but you should not write him as a nice guy who never threatens his wife with a snake.oYour work may include substantial portions of the original text (a comic, for example, might use the original dialogue from a story). In creative pieces, you do not usually include in-text citations, but your work should be substantially modified—it should feel like there’s as much of you in it as there is the original author.II.Critical ReflectionWrite a short essay in which you explain your interpretation of the original piece and describe how and why you chose to reinterpret it. Be sure to analyze quotations from the original text to support your argument, then discuss how your version adds to, revises, or departs from the original. Why did you make the decisions you did? What were you trying to accomplish? What did it feel like to look at the text from the perspective of author rather than reader?Because this is an essay, it should have a thesis/main idea on which each of the essay’s paragraphs build.