Rough Draft Due Wednesday, June 2

Author Imitation Assignment

Your task is to write a short story in the style of one of the major 4 Modern American authors we have studied this semester. You have randomly been assigned your author based on your last name. If you want to switch with someone with another author, you both must come in and get my formal permission to switch authors.

The alphabet breakdown:

A-Dough: Hemingway
Doug-Kell: Faulker
Kl-Pon: Fitzgerald
Pr-Zu: Steinback

Your short story should be between 3-4 pages in length (hopefully closer to 3.) You must imitate your author in regards to:

- Subject matter
- Setting
- Characters
- Themes
- Style (diction, syntax, figurative language, etc.)

Other students will be reading your story and attempting to guess which author you are imitating. Therefore, give your story a real (and hopefully significant title) as opposed to calling it “Hemingway imitation story.”

Due 5/28 Author Chart

Create a 4 quadrant chart in which you write down the following information for Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner

Location(s)
Types of Characters
Common Themes
Stylistic Observations
A defining Quotation

Due Thursday, May 20th

Read "Flight" by Steinbeck.

Due 5/19

Read "The Snake" by Steinbeck.

If you were absent today, you will need to make up a "quiz" and complete your reading assignment for Monday (listed on the left). Also, you may want to get notes from someone on what we discussed. You will also bring your review that we started on Thursday to class on Monday.

For Tuesday, you will be turning in a vocabulary assignment based around The Old Man and the Sea. Words are listed below.


Due Tuesday:

evoke
colloquial
self-effacing
concision
amalgamation
brusque
propensity
nebulous

For each word, you must provide

1. a brief definition
2. a sentence using the word to help you make an interesting, analytical observation about the Old Man and the Sea.

(This is just like what we did for Huck Finn.)

Due Wednesday, May 12

Re-read "Hills like White Elephants" paying specific attention this time to the nature of the relationship between the man and the girl. Who seems to be controlling the conversation? What central conflicts seem to exist between the two? What other character insights can you gain now that you have a greater understanding of their topic of conversation?

Due Tuesday, May 11

Read "Hills like White Elephants" and "A Clean well-lighted Place."

Suggested thinking topics:

Hills: What can be inferred about the relationship between the man and the woman? How does the extensive use of dialog convey some of these dynamics?

Place: Alienation and isolation? Importance of paragraph beginning "'Good night', the other said" in terms of style and content?

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For Monday, please read the story "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway. (722-727).

Pay special attention to:

- The role of technology
- Existential elements (alienation, creation of essence, anxiety)
- Symbolism of characters

(In other words, if I ask a question about these topics in class, you should be able to point to specific quotations and add your own thoughts.)

Here is the complete text (I think) just in case you've forgotten your book.)

They're mine...they're all mine...MUAHAHAHA!

WELCOME BACK!
Welcome Back!

For Monday, please read the story "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway. (722-727).

Pay special attention to:

- The role of technology
- Existential elements (alienation, creation of essence, anxiety)
- Symbolism of characters

(In other words, if I ask a question about these topics in class, you should be able to point to specific quotations and add your own thoughts.)

Here is the complete text (I think) just in case you've forgotten your book.)