Response to a Flash Fiction Story
START by reading the assigned TASK: response assignment, rubric & checklist
Step 1. Review all four (4) of the flash fiction story notesheets to the stories we read as a class and choose the story on which you think you can write the best response.
Step 2. Review your notes on this story. Re-read the story as a refresher. You can also look at these websites to round out your understanding of that text. Consider this research - do not plagiarize.
Step 3. Start drafting the response.
Step 1. Review all four (4) of the flash fiction story notesheets to the stories we read as a class and choose the story on which you think you can write the best response.
Step 2. Review your notes on this story. Re-read the story as a refresher. You can also look at these websites to round out your understanding of that text. Consider this research - do not plagiarize.
- "Currents" by Hannah Bottomy Vosquil
- "Likable" by Deb Olin Unferth
- "Taylor Swift" Hugh Behm-Steinberg
- "The Coat" by Lex Williford
Step 3. Start drafting the response.
- Here is a template for rough drafting that you can type into after downloading (PDF version here for handwriting or consulting)
- Here is the rough draft model with template that I refer to in the instructional videos: compare the okay version and the stronger version
- This is a resource for different ways to begin a paper - the Leads handout
- See this master list of literary codes and conventions (AKA devices, techniques) and/or this quick cheat sheet handed out in class
- Watch these instructional videos to write your response:
Step 4. Peer- and self-review
Step 5. Revise and polish the good copy. Making sure all your MLA formatting and citation rules are being followed:
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Step 6. Submit as follows:
- Submit the printed good copy stapled on top of the rough draft that was peer-reviewed, and the notesheet to that story only, and staple the checklist/rubric last.