CACW104 TEXT AND CONTEXT Assessment 1: Creative Exercises GUIDELINES. Marked out of 100— Weighting 30% Word Limits: 350-500 words per exercise; 350-500 words per reflective commentary IMPORTANT NOTE: We will investigate all exercises in tutorials during Session You MUST submit Creative Exercise A You can choose to submit EITHER Creative Exercise B OR Exercise C As you develop your work, consider which exercise demonstrates your strongest engagement with the subject. Creative Exercise A: The Dramatic In the lecture in Week 4, we will examine the way Chekhov adapts the structure of the well-made play in order to more accurately represent twentieth-century experience. In this exercise: © Choose an experience that you see as ‘quintessentially 2016: for example, social media interactions, reality TV, iphone use, the budget, international events, the merging of the global/local, ecological disasters, etc. @ Write a plan for a play that engages with this topic, drawing out the ways in which your dramatic form supports the exploration of the topic. You might want to think about: changing the conventional structure of the play, representing dialogue in a new way, devising new kinds of characters, etc. You my present snippets of scenes from your planned play as examples of your writing approach but you do not need to write the whole play. © Write a reflective commentary on your planned play. Discuss the relationship between the content and the writing strategies you've chosen. For example, if you've chosen to break the conventional three-act structure of drama, how does this support the 'themes' of your play? If you have chosen to present non-naturalistic dialogue, how does this represent your current episteme? Explain how your approach is similar/different toChekhov — and why. Submit your plan and your reflective commentary for assessment. Percentage of Final Mark: 10% Due Date: Week 6: Monday, 29 August Submit to LHA Central by 4pm Word Limits: Dramatic Plan: 350-500 words Reflective Commentary: 350-500 words (pto for Creative Exercises B and C)Creative Exercise B: The Poetic In the lecture in Week 8, we will identify the way Eliot uses a wide array of quotation to represent the fragmentation of his experience. In this exercise: © Write a poem using only quotations from texts in your own life, They made be from works you are reading/seeing, popular culture, things overheard, signs on campus, text messages, your own writing, etc. Even though the poem will contain text not written by you, transform these into a poem with a 'theme’: your focus should be on representing experiences in 2016. You might want to think about: the structure/order of quotes you have chosen, the interactions between the different texts, the use of imagery, etc. © Write a reflective commentary on your poem. Discuss the relationship between the content and the writing strategies you've chosen. For example, if you've chosen to place ‘the quotes in the conventional verse form (each quote on a new line), how does this support the ‘theme’ of your poem? If you have chosen to present only fragments of quotes, or blend quotes together, how does this represent your current episteme? Explain how your approach is similar/different to Eliot - and why. ‘Submit your poem and your reflective commentary for assessment. Percentage of Final Mark: 20% Due Date: Week 12: Friday, 21 October Submit to LHA Central by 4pm Word Limits: Poem: 350-500 words Reflective Commentary: 350-500 words Creative Exercise C: The Narrative In the lecture in Week 11, we will explore the way Dickens uses closely-focalised narration to represent a unified depiction of his narrative world In this exercise’ © Choose a ‘public moment’: a party, a train carriage, a lecture, etc. Write a brief narrative piece about the moment that adapts the strategies of Dickens in order to more adequately represent experiences in 2016. You might want to think about: the kind of narrator(s) you'll use, the position of the narrator(s), the representation of characters’ thoughts, multiple or shifting perspectives, etc. © Write a reflective commentary on your piece. Discuss the relationship between the content and the writing strategies you've chosen. For example, if you've chosen to use first-person narration, how does this depict experience in 2016? If you have chosen to present multiple perspectives, how does this represent your current episteme? Explain how your approach is simitar/different to Dickens~and why, ‘Submit your narrative piece and your reflective commentary for assessment. Percentage of Final Mark: 20% Due Date: Week 12: Friday, 21 October Submit to LHA Central by 4pm Word Limits: Narrative: 350-500 words Reflective Commentary: 350-500 words