MILESTONE 2

ENG 510 Final Project Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: As part of your final project, you will be defining storytelling elements, literary conventions, and themes for your writing toolkit; analyzing how your classic and contemporary selections utilize these elements; predicting how you might use them in a future work; and practicing them in short creative pieces. In Milestone One, you chose your works. In the first part of this milestone, you will write a short creative work (could be a scene from a longer work) where you practice using the storytelling elements of point of view, character development, and crisis. In the second part of this milestone, you will justify your choices, analyzing how the classic and contemporary works utilize point of view. Looking ahead, in Milestone Three (due in Module Six), you will focus on other storytelling elements, literary conventions, and themes in the classic and contemporary texts. Prompt: Using a deliberate point of view, craft a scene in a genre of your choice (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama) that illustrates a character dealing with a new crisis. (You may elect to redevelop your Module Three journal assignment, or you may invent a new one.) Point of view, character development, and crisis (depending on where this is in your story, the crisis could be an inciting incident, climax, or merely conflict) are three of the storytelling elements you will focus on learning this term, and this creative exercise allows you to practice applying these elements. Next, you will write a justification for your choices. First, act as a “spoiler” and explain how you would have the character change, grow, or overcome the crisis/obstacle at the end of the story, poem, novel, essay, or screenplay. Then answer the following questions: Why did you select the point of view you did for the project? Would you use this point of view in future work? What are the points of view for the classic and the contemporary works you are reading this term, and why do you think the authors chose those particular lenses? Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Creative Work A. Craft a scene of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama, with a chosen point of view that depicts a character dealing with a crisis

II. Justification A. Explain how you would have your character change, grow, or overcome the crisis by the end of the story B. Defend your own selection of point of view C. Articulate whether or not you would use this point of view again in future work D. Analyze the classic text for point of view employed by the author E. Analyze the contemporary text for point of view employed by the author

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your creative work should be 10 to 50 lines for poetry, 500 to 1000 words for fiction/nonfiction, or 2 to 4 pages of screenwriting. The justification should be 1 to 2 pages.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value Creative Work:

Craft Crafts a scene of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama with a chosen point of view that depicts a character dealing with a crisis

Crafts a scene of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama that depicts a character dealing with a crisis, but point of view is unclear or inconsistent

Does not craft a scene of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama with a chosen point of view that depicts a character dealing with a crisis

20

Justification: Explanation

Explains how the character will change, grow, or overcome the crisis

Explains how the character will change, grow, or overcome the crisis, but explanation is unclear or inconsistent

Does not explain how the character will change, grow, or overcome the crisis

15

Justification: Point of View

Defends selection of point of view Defends selection of point of view, but explanation lacks detail or support

Does not defend selection of point of view 15

Justification: Future Work

Articulates whether this point of view is applicable to future work

Articulates whether this point of view is applicable to future work, but explanation lacks clarity or detail

Does not articulate whether this point of view is applicable to future work

15

Justification: Classic Work

Analyzes the chosen classic text for the point of view employed by the author

Analyzes the chosen classic text for the point of view employed by the author, but analysis lacks detail and support

Does not analyze the chosen classic text for the point of view employed by the author

15

Justification: Contemporary

Work

Analyzes the chosen contemporary text for the point of view employed by the author

Analyzes the chosen contemporary text for the point of view employed by the author, but analysis lacks detail and support

Does not analyze the chosen contemporary text for the point of view employed by the author

15

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

5

Total 100%