Most Dangerous Game Creative Writing Assignment

Select a scene from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and write the scene from an alternate point of view. You may also compose a scene that takes place after or before the events in the story from either first or third person. Make sure to evoke Connell’s tone and utilize vocabulary from the original story. Development and description are important to achieving a successful grade on this assignment.

Vote for Our Next Novel

Please vote for one of the following by replying with the title of your choice:

The God of Small Things

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.

Ender’s Game

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Beloved

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison’s greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the decade. “A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story . . . read it and tremble.”

The Book Thief

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak’s unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

Nothing

When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his classroom, climbs a tree, and stays there. His classmates cannot make him come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to Pierre-Anthon that life has meaning, the children decide to give up things of importance. The pile starts with the superficial—a fishing rod, a new pair of shoes. But as the sacrifices become more extreme, the students grow increasingly desperate to get Pierre-Anthon down, to justify their belief in meaning. Sure to prompt intense thought and discussion, Nothing—already a treasured work overseas—is not to be missed.

 

 

 

Allusions Project Part II

All of the listed allusions have stories associated with them. Using the resource you identified in Part I of the project, tell the story associated with your allusion. Create bullet points to outline the main events of your story and compose a concise narrative that you will share with the class.

1984 Part III

Analyze the allegorical significance of  Winston’s experience as a member of The Party living in the totalitarian society of Air Strip One. Discuss literary devices Orwell utilizes to convey his meaning in Part III of the novel Responses must contain a clear topic sentence, a minimum of three specific examples from the text, analysis of each example, and a concluding statement about Orwell’s literary intent.  Submissions are due Friday, October 4, 2013.

1984 Part II

Analyze the allegorical significance of  Winston’s experience as a member of The Party living in the totalitarian society of Air Strip One. Discuss literary devices Orwell utilizes to convey his meaning in Part II of the novel Responses must contain a clear topic sentence, a minimum of three specific examples from the text, analysis of each example, and a concluding statement about Orwell’s literary intent.  Submissions are due Friday, September 27, 2013.

1984 Part I

Analyze the allegorical significance of  Winston’s experience as a member of The Party living in the totalitarian society of Air Strip One. Discuss literary devices Orwell utilizes to convey his meaning in Part I of the novel Responses must contain a clear topic sentence, a minimum of three specific examples from the text, analysis of each example, and a concluding statement about Orwell’s literary intent.  Submissions are due Friday, September 13, 2013.

Poem 1: Imagery and Personification

Please post your original poem using imagery and personification. This poem is modeled after Tennyson’s “The Eagle” and should contain two stanzas with three lines each. The first stanza describes the subject and its environment, while the second describes an action the subject performs. The rhyme scheme is AAA-BBB using end rhyme. The poem follows iambic meter, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. You poem should follow Tennyson’s content, form, and meter as closely as possible, but allowances will be made for originality.