Assignment 5

[jfields]

It sounds like you're totally perfect on part A...so I'll talk about part B.

Technically, you can just do a kind of stream-of-consciousness gushing forth of the girl's ideas on all manner of things and not have them rooted in the library or anywhere else in particular.

Alternately, you can create a scene (just a scene, NOT a story) with the girl in it as narrator, telling us what's happening and using action and detail just like any scene in a story, but written in first person. Since Assignment 6 is going to ask you to write a story with her in it, you could writing a scene you could imagine being in a story somewhere.

But you don't write a story. You do write fiction in that you aren't that girl and so anything you imagine her thinking is you imagining and thus fiction. Given our druthers, we instructors would strongly rather you didn't just rewrite the moment you observed into a first person account in the child's head. A lot of students do it though, so you wouldn't be alone...but we would RATHER you put her in a totally different moment and situation so you're really imagining how that child you observed might see totally different things in her life.

But it's just a scene -- not a full story.

[lauramlee]

I sure was heading down the wrong path on part b. Thanks for asking this question, Kim and thank you Jan for clarifying things. I,too, was thinking a story!

M'Lee

[readnwrite]

Whew! Thank you, again Jan. The creativity is again flowing.............LOL 

You're welcome, M'Lee! I was such a stubborn kid that I never asked my teachers for clarification on instructions. Didn't do well grade-wise. Now, I'm like a kid again, learning something new everyday. Except, I'm not intimidated about asking those questions. How else am I gonna learn?! And, if others learn from it, all the better. I'm in good company, obviously.                 Kim