Dies Drear Writing Assignments

You must first complete a writing plan, as indicated in the assignment.

  1. Topic: Both Alice and Thomas enter into underground worlds. However, their experiences are very different. Compare these two experiences a very long paragraph which considers these 5 points:
    1. Why and how each enters the underworld. (Thomas enters 2 undergrounds - the tunnel and the cave - cover one or the other or both)
    2. What each experiences in the descent (journey down).
    3. What each finds in the underworld - what is the atmosphere, what is the setting?
    4. How each reacts to the underworld and what happens to cause this reaction.
    5. How each leaves the underworld.

Your writing plan should be an Inspiration concept map. You should use the first 2 sentences of the topic as the first two sentences of your paragraph. You may copy my map or make your own.

 

2. Topic: _______________ had a dream. Fill in the blank with your own name. Write a narrative and descriptive piece in which you describe a dream you have had or might have one day. Write in the 3rd person. You are required to use exaggeration in the dream. Limit : 2 double-spaced pages in 12 point Times New Roman font.

Your writing plan should be the completion of the following notes:

    1. Setting (one only): in this space, tell where, and then list describing words and phrases you will use.

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    2. Character other than yourself:
Name:

Physical description:

Special traits if any:

 

3. What happens in this dream? List 4-5 plot steps.