Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Monkey's Paw

2nd Block,

Class,

For homework tonight don't forget to read The Monkey's Paw on page 50 and do the writing activity on page 67. After reading short stories in our class, what makes a GREAT short story? Post your response and respond to 1 or more classmates on this post. Here's a video clip about The Monkey's Paw.
Post by 10p.m.

27 comments:

  1. I thought the deadline was 9pm...

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    1. Since he found out (today) that we have no lives then he extended it to 10. Or maybe Mr.G has no life and wants to check our stuff ? (:

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    2. I think he just doesn't have a life haha.

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  2. So we have to answer what we think is a GREAT short story ?

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  3. I think what makes a great short story is the suspense, and it also depends on the character. Suspense, the Romanticism, and the intense problems in the story.

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    1. True,for example, the few moments of suspense before Mrs. White opened the door.

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    2. When she was going to open the door, I was yelling at her to hurry up because I wanted to see what her husband looked like.

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    3. Yup, I agree. Suspense makes it good.

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    4. I agree with stephaniee anout suspence

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    5. i think suspense is always expected in every short story for the reason that it keeps you intrested .

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    6. I'm gonna go with what Mara said . It's true that suspense is pretty much expected in every short story .

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  4. Like Stephanie said, I think susupense is the best thing to make a short story great. I guess the more you make the audience or reader want to know, the more they'll be interested in going on.

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  5. I also think that suspence is the main thing that happens in a story

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  6. What i think makes a short story great is if it contains good details and is interesting.

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  7. i think what makes a short story great is the lesson learned from every action.

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  8. I think what makes a short story great is the moments of suspence. Also when the author makes the readers feel fear.

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  9. I think to make a great short story there has to be something to be solved or a mystery and sudden changes in the charcters emotions or thoughts.

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  10. What she said^^
    hahahaha
    What I think makes a great short story is the story has lots suspense and mystery that leads to a climax

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  11. I think that what makes a short story great is suspence

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  12. I agree with Stephanie about how suspense cause make a Great story but i also think that a Great story consist of making the reader change their emotions....I really don't know how to explain it. So here's an example, when you finish a sad story is makes you cry, or when you read a mystery story is makes you confused. Something along those lines.

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  13. I think suspense is what makes a short story great . Like you're just dying to wanna know what's about to happen next

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  14. What makes a great short story is emotions that you can connect to. Emotions that you connect to are fear and sadness. For example, when Mrs. White was about to open the door and her son didn't let her and those were moments of fear and sadness because he didn't know how his dad was going to look behind the door.

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  15. I think it needs to have detail, suspense,and foreshadowing .

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