Part I Tell the story
Please click on the link. www.jumpcut.com/view?id=7361002CEFC111DDA621000423CF0184
It will bring you to a photo essay that contained 10 digital images. Click the play the button to read the 10-page photo essay. (You can read as many times as you need by clicking the play button.) The assignment is to write a story (minimum 120 words) based on the photo essay and post your story on this class blog.
You are strongly encouraged to think in the broad cultural context and feel free to demonstrate your creativity in your writing!
Submission:
Please submit your story on this blog by responding to this post, click on the "comments" button below.
Deadline:
06:00 pm, February 7, 2009
Grading Criteria (10 points)
Story (content & coherence) 3 points
Demonstrate language proficiency 4 points
Creativity and Organization 3 points
Part II Share the story
Visit the blog and read all posts by your classmates. Pick two stories that you love most and provide reasons. Bring your thoughts and opinions to class for a discussion in the next class. Then, you will be collaborating with a small group (3-4 people ) to create a story based on the same photo essay and submit it on the blog before the end of the class time. Each student is also required to write a reflection by responding to their story post illustrating how the group discussion and collaboration affects or facilitates the group decision process and what he/she has learned from the group discussion, etc.
Grading Criteria (15 points)
Story (content & coherence) 3 points
Demonstrate language proficiency 4 points
Creativity and Organization 3 points
Reflection 5 points
Enjoy writing!
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Once upon a time there lived a beautiful girl. She decided to go for a walk in a desert and got lost. When she saw a handsome man near a dry oasis, she came up to him, knelt and started begging for food, water and directions to get back home. Having just returned from the military, the man decided to use his hunting skills and shoot a couple of geese for dinner to feed the hungry girl. The geese were so delicious that the girl fell in love with the guy. In an hour or so, she noticed that her arms started turning into the wings of the geese that she had just eaten, and she soared high in the sky. The guy got really upset, thinking that the girl was going to fly away, so he jumped to catch the girl soaring in the sky. By that time, the girl, however, had developed very good flying skills, so she took off to the Moon and was gone for good. That was the dawn of Apollo missions...
ReplyDeleteA woman who worked in a laundry service often lost her customer's clothes. Sometimes, her sister would help steal replacement clothes off of the dead bodies they would find in the desert near the Mexico/US border. But her last customer was infuriated by the crazy outfit she tried to palm off on him and he threatened to whip her. Her white boyfriend from Disneyland tried to hide her under a shower of blossom petals. But her parents, who had lost their patience with her incompetence, showed the angry man where she was hiding. She thought she could climb the pile of blossoms to the sky, but the angry man in he crazy outfit danced the Potato Mash on the petals and made her descend back toward earth. He was too late, however, because the moon had already seen her and laid claim to her by enveloping her in clouds and tying her up in blue ribbons. At first she relished being the bride of the moon and was splendid in her glorious role. Soon, as the moon waxed and waned incessantly, she realized it was just like her life as a launderess, every month it grows into a great pile and she must toil to wash it away. Still, it is a great view from up there.
ReplyDeleteGetting lost and being found, you cannot help but to be grateful. What would you do if you ever got lost in the desert with no food and water for days? When you are at the point of death?
ReplyDeleteSuch was the experience of a young women from China.In such a situation she could not but plead with a stranger who came her way and saved her life. Goodness attracts; thus it was not surprising that the woman got attracted to the man and fell in love with him. The man also loved her so much and did everything to change her life for the better.
Yes, falling in love may be good but do we have to fall in love due to gratitude, sympathy or even empathy?
Seasons of Self-Discovery
ReplyDeleteMinako found herself in the desert of her youth. She had grown up as a happy child with adoring parents when suddenly her father fell ill and passed away. Her mother followed shortly from a broken heart. In a short time the garden en fields of flowers of her childhood became a barren desert of aloneness and confusion.
She believed in the power of nature to bloom life and love. Spring finally entered her life after many hardships which saw her triumph despite the intense winter of these trials. Throughout these times she felt her parents' nearness and their assisting her during these difficult times. Minako felt she had gone full seasons and reached a place of strength and satisfaction in herself as well as her expectations of life, when, as if to bless her wisdom, she met Yukisho.
It was his final sunset. His final heartbeat. His final breath. Lying on the sun-soaked desert, the old man slipped away and began his journey into the next life. KAZAM! He transformed into a vibrant young man again, dressed in colorful clothing and ready to do good deeds; he had to redeem himself through a series of tasks in order to gain admittance into the afterlife. His first task was to help a couple who desperately wanted a child. They had been married for many years, and had been unsuccessful in starting their new family. By now they were very old, but still held out hope that one day they would be lucky enough to have a child and be a family. The old man saw the despair in their faces and decided to summon the goddess of love. She lived in the skies, surrounded by the tranquility of fresh life; all creatures adored her and sought her out throughout their lives. She was well-known and even more loved. But just as he found the goddess of love and convinced her to help the desperate couple, their final sunset came. Their final heartbeats. Their final breaths.
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