Journal 6
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ENG 510 Module Six Journal Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: Journal activities in this course are private between you and the instructor. A course journal is generally made up of many individual assignments.
The journals in this course will help to prepare you for Final Project II, the creative writing tool kit. In this final project, you will select creative writing styles and
techniques that you believe will be most effective in both expressing your goals as a writer and reaching the audiences you plan to target in your work.
Prompt: Select one of the texts in the Module Six resource list that contains a place (or setting) that appeals to you most as both a reader and a writer.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
x Defend preferences for a particular setting, fi a a eade and econd a a i e U e e ample f om hi mod le e o ce o ppo o idea
Next, use one of your two selected books (either the classic or the contemporary) and:
x Explain the impact ha anal ing he o k in hi co e f om a i e andpoin ha had on o pe onal app oach o c ea ing e ing
x Examine how this knowledge will inform and serve your personal goals as a writer.
Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Your journal
assignment should be no more than 350 words and any sources should be cited in MLA format.
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Setting Meets “Proficient” criteria and
provides exceptional detail in
defending preferences for a
particular setting first as a
reader and second as a writer,
using examples
Defends preferences for a
particular setting first as a
reader and second as a writer,
using examples
Defends preferences for a
particular setting first as a
reader and second as a writer,
using examples, but defense
lacks details or is unclear
Does not defend preferences for
a particular setting first as a
reader and second as a writer
30
Impact Meets “Proficient” criteria and
provides exceptional detail in
explaining the impact that
analyzing the works in this
co e f om a i e
standpoint has had on a
personal approach to creating
settings
Explains the impact that
analyzing the works in this
co e f om a i e
standpoint has had on a
personal approach to creating
settings
Explains the impact that
analyzing the works in this
co e f om a i e
standpoint has had on a
personal approach to creating
settings, but explanation lacks
details or is unclear
Does not explain the impact
that analyzing the works in this
co e f om a i e
standpoint has had on a
personal approach to creating
settings
30
Goals Meets “Proficient” criteria and
provides exceptional detail in
examining how this knowledge
will inform and serve your
personal goals as a writer
Examines how this knowledge
will inform and serve your
personal goals as a writer
Examines how this knowledge
will inform and serve your
personal goals as a writer, but
examination lacks details or is
unclear
Does not examine how this
knowledge will inform and serve
your personal goals as a writer
30
Articulation of
Response
Journal assignment is free of
errors in organization and
grammar
Journal assignment is mostly
free of errors of organization
and grammar, which are
marginal and rarely interrupt
the flow
Journal assignment contains
errors of organization and
grammar but they are limited
enough so that assignment can
be understood
Journal assignment contains
errors of organization and
grammar that make the journal
difficult to understand
10
Total 100%
Assignments 6-1 Journal: Familiar and Unfamiliar Places
6-1 Journal: Familiar and Unfamiliar
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Select one of the texts in the Module Six resource list that contains a place
(or se#ng) that appeals to you most as both a reader and a writer. You will
defend your preferences for se#ng.
Next, use one of your two selected texts (either the classic or the
contemporary).
Explain the impact that analyzing the works in this course from a
writer’s standpoint has had on your personal approach to crea!ng
se#ngs.
Examine how this knowledge will inform and serve your personal
goals as a writer.
To complete this assignment, review the Module Six Journal Guidelines and
Rubric document.
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Module Overview
The Deep South at the cusp of the Civil War. Old New York in the
Gilded Age. A futuris!c dystopian wasteland. An empty café terrace
late at night. No ma”er when, where, or what, se#ngs ma”er. The
degree to which they ma”er depends, in part, on the style of the
crea!ve work, the tone, the characters, and the theme. Some
wri!ng relies heavily on se#ng (Edith Wharton’s The House of
Mirth could take place nowhere but old New York in the late
nineteenth century, for example), and some wri!ng uses it merely as
background to highlight characters and ac!on. But the se#ng is
always there, an integral part of the world of the piece. Module Six
explores se#ng, focusing on methods of building a world through
place and atmosphere.
To begin building a world, you must first iden!fy where it is and
what goes in it. Se#ng is more than simply locale. It also includes
!me—both !me period (present day, medieval !mes, the nineteenth
century, and so on), !me of day (early morning, dusk, midday), and
!me of year (summer, fall, winter, spring). Weather too is a part of
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!me of year (summer, fall, winter, spring). Weather too is a part of
se#ng—just ask any fan of George R. R. Mar!n’s A Song of Ice and
Fire series, and they will tell you what it means that winter is
coming. Se#ng also includes interiors, such as drawing rooms,
kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, and exteriors, including yards,
porches, and pa!os. The type of house a character lives in—be it a
grand planta!on home, a dilapidated Creole townhouse, or a
corporate apartment—is a part of the se#ng. Even the props (e.g.,
the furniture, the wall hangings, the photographs) inside that home
are a part of the se#ng, a part of what “grounds a story in place”
(Burroway 156).
Your world must also have an atmosphere because “without it, your
characters will be unable to breathe” (Burroway 159). To establish an
atmosphere, you take the se#ng and add tone. This is most
prominent, perhaps, in darker crea!ve works, such as “The Fall of
the House of Usher” (which you may have read in Module Five), or
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (which you may read in Module Six). In both
pieces, the authors use the se#ng (the House of Usher and the
room with the yellow wallpaper) to create a sense of impending
doom.
In movies, se#ng and atmosphere can have more of an overt
establishment with visual and aural elements, too. For instance, the
opening clip from Fargo (cc) establishes se#ng and mood right off
the bat, using music to help to build the atmosphere. The writer
does not have music; the writer has only words, and those words
must be concrete, significant, and carefully chosen for this world to
come to life.
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Writers are encouraged to make their se#ngs and worlds
“believable,” which means that everything on the page—a character’s
ac!ons, dialogue, or thought, along with the se#ng itself—must be
congruous. To make it believable, your world must have established
rules. This does not mean laws, exactly, or even a moral code.
“Rules” in this context refer to what can and cannot happen, or what
does and does not exist in this world. For example, in the world of A
Song of Ice and Fire, dragons exist, as do giants, and it is established
early on that what dies is not always permanently dead. In Mar!n’s
world, white walkers, Red Priests, and magic can raise the dead. In
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake trilogy, mutant hybrid animals
such as pigoons and mohairs roam the post-apocalyp!c land. But
even in realist wri!ng, there are worlds with their own sets of rules.
These rules might mimic the real world (dragons might be merely
mythical creatures and the dead might stay dead), but there are
rules just the same.
This week, you will defend your preferences for se#ng in a group
discussion. You will also turn in the next milestone of your final
project, in which you will analyze your classic and contemporary text
for their uses of storytelling elements, literary conven!ons, and
themes.
Works Cited
Burroway, Janet. Wri!ng Fic!on: A Guide to Narra!ve Cra%.
Boston: Pearson, 2007. Print.
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Module Six: Se!ng
Learning Objec!ves
By the end of this module, you will meet these learning objec!ves:
Explain preferences for se”ng in a crea!ve work
Analyze a contemporary work for the core storytelling
elements of narra!ve structure (conflict, crisis, and resolu!on)
and character development choices
Determine how an author’s choices relate to relevant literary
conven!ons of the !me
Reading and Resources
Required Resources
Short Story: Rockets Red
This contemporary short story by Mary Robine#e Kowal serves as
an
example of the reader’s immersion into the world of fic!on.
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an example of the reader’s immersion into the world of fic!on.
This is one of the texts you can choose to discuss in this module’s
journal, which requires you to choose one of the works from the
module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
Short Story: The Yellow Wallpaper
This classic short story by Charlo#e Perkins Gilman serves as an
example of the reader’s immersion into the world of fic!on.
This is one of the texts you can choose to discuss in this module’s
journal, which requires you to choose one of the works from the
module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
Poem: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On
Revisi!ng the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798
This classic poem by William Wordsworth serves as an example of
se”ng in poetry.
This is one of the texts you can choose to discuss in this module’s
journal, which requires you to choose one of the works from the
module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
Poem: Traveling Through the Dark
This contemporary poem serves as an example of se”ng in poetry.
This is one of the texts you can choose to discuss in this module’s
journal, which requires you to choose one of the works from the
module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174796
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module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
One-Act Play: Riders to the Sea
This contemporary play by John Millington Synge serves as an
example of se”ng in drama.
This is one of the texts you can choose to discuss in this module’s
journal, which requires you to choose one of the works from the
module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
Essay: The Beau!ful City of Tirzah
This contemporary essay by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher serves as
an example of se”ng in nonfic!on.
This is one of the texts you can choose to discuss in this module’s
journal, which requires you to choose one of the works from the
module resources to analyze for the element of se”ng.
Video: How to Build a Fic!onal World (5:24)
This video discusses how to build a fic!onal world. This resource
supports the module journal and Milestone Three.
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