Winter Holiday
Narrative
Complete draft due
Tuesday, December 18. 500-1000 words.
Final draft due Thursday, December 20.
- Tell a story (with characters, events, at least one significant object) in first person.
- Include vivid and suggestive details about character, setting, and events.
- Reflect on the meaning of the story. Explain along the way how the story reveals your understanding of “the true meaning” of the winter holiday season to you.
- Narrate with a lively, intimate voice.
- Create a title that suggests focus and/or meaning (literal or symbolic).
Special
issues:
- Choose present or past tense. Stick with it! Don’t shift from one to the other.
- When you shift time, place, or focus, start a new paragraph.
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