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IdeaGerenationMappinganAutobigraphyInstructions.docx

Instructions

This exercise will help you develop a variety of options for your story, considered especially in the context of your entire life trajectory.

First, brainstorm at least ten moments or experiences that you consider influential—moments that in some way impacted your identity, your friendships, your worldview—for the better or for the worse. Then, rate those experiences on a degree of “awesomeness,” “pleasurability,” or something else along those lines, on a scale of 0 – 10, with 10 being the hands down best moment of your life and 0 being the worst. Record them in a table below like the one below. If you cannot make a table in your document, then just write each of the ten experiences like these two examples below:

1. 8 years old / My brother being born / Awesomeness factor: 10

2. 24 years old / Graduating with a bachelor's degree in debt / Awesomeness factor:

Your Age	Event, Moment, or Experience	Awesomeness Factor (0-10)

Next, take a moment to look at what you have written for your experiences and their awesome factor. Choose three experiences from your list of ten experiences. Choose whichever three you would like. They do not have to have similar awesomeness factors. For instance, someone might choose three experiences with the highest awesomeness factors while someone else might choose three experiences with the lowest awesomeness factors. Yet, someone else might choose three experiences that are across the spectrum: one experience with a high awesomeness factor, one with a low awesomeness factor, and one with an awesomeness factor in the middle. It is truly up to you to determine which three experiences.

Skip a line below your ten experiences, and then write the three experiences you chose beneath the list of ten experiences. After that, skip another line and free-write about each of the three experiences you chose for at least five minutes each (which would be at least fifteen minutes altogether).

Submission Guidelines: Submit a .docx or .pdf file in MLA format that lists your ten age, experiences, and awesomeness factor chart or list as well as identifies the three experiences you want to free-write about. The document should also include those three free-writes. This assignment will likely be approximately one to two pages long when double-spaced. You may write more than one to two pages if you need to.

TheSecretAfairyTalefromAutoethnographyInstructions.docx

The Secret: A Fairy Tale from Autoethnography (First Draft)

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Instructions

After completing Idea Generation: Mapping an Autobiography, ask yourself which of your three free-writes about the three experiences you chose makes you excited to continue to write about.

Then, consider the following. Many people have said that sometimes nonfiction or true stories have the most lies, and fiction and/or counterstories are actually closer to being true. Additionally, sometimes life's truths can be very hard to write about, especially without some of the liberties that writing in fiction and/or counterstories can offer. For instance, sometimes it can be really hard to write about a trauma that you want people to learn a lesson from. In that case, it might be easier to write about the experience in a fictional or counterstory-based way. Many fairy tales started out as cautionary tales that were framed as fiction but were actually counterstories to dominant expressions of society that were harmful to a particular group of people.

With that being said, transform the autobiographical free-write that you chose into a fairy tale that is at least 500 words (approximately 2 pages double-spaced). In that fairy tale, think of the people from your free-write experience as imaginary characters and feel free to convert any humans into magical creatures or anything else that you think makes creative sense for your fairy tale. After considering your characters, follow the instructions below.

1. Choose any two professions for at least two imaginary characters.

2. Give the two characters a secret that they share with one another. As you might imagine, neither of them would reveal that secret aloud, but they might discuss it. Whatever the secret is up to you, but remember that your fairy tale has to have a lesson that readers learn after reading your fairy tale. (To really challenge yourself, you might also come up with a reason that their secret must be a secret: Is it socially unacceptable to talk about? Are they liable to get in trouble if people find out? Will they ruin a surprise?)

3. For part of your fairy tale paper, write a dialogue exchange between those characters about the secret using only their words (i.e., no “he said” or “she said,” but rather only the language they use). Allow the secret to be revealed to the reader in how the characters speak, what they say, and how they say it. Pay attention to the subtext of what’s being said and how it’s being said. How would these characters discuss their secret without revealing it to eavesdroppers? (Consider Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” as a model.)

4. Be sure that your fairy tale has all five parts of Freytag's Pyramid: (1) exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Submission Guidelines: Submit a .docx or .pdf file in MLA format that contains your fairy tale. This assignment should be at least 500 words long (approximately 2 pages long when double-spaced). You may write more than two pages if you need to.

IdeaGerationRubic.docx

1 point	Level 2 2 points	Level 3 3 points	Criterion Score
Selecting Three Experiences	Selected one experience from the list of ten to free-write about.	Selected two experiences from the list of ten to free-write about.	Selected three experiences from the list of ten to free-write about.	Score of Selecting Three Experiences, / 3
Criteria	Level 1 2 points	Level 2 4 points	Level 3 6 points	Criterion Score
Free-writing about Three Experiences for at Least Five Minutes Each	Free-wrote about one experience from the list of ten experiences.	Free-wrote about two experiences from the list of ten experiences.	Free-wrote about three experiences from the list of ten experiences.	Score of Free-writing about Three Experiences for at Least Five Minutes Each, / 6

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0 points

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1 point

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IdeaGerenationMappinganAutobigraphyInstructions.docx

Instructions

This exercise will help you develop a variety of options for your story, considered especially in the context of your entire life trajectory.

First, brainstorm at least ten moments or experiences that you consider influential—moments that in some way impacted your identity, your friendships, your worldview—for the better or for the worse. Then, rate those experiences on a degree of “awesomeness,” “pleasurability,” or something else along those lines, on a scale of 0 – 10, with 10 being the hands down best moment of your life and 0 being the worst. Record them in a table below like the one below. If you cannot make a table in your document, then just write each of the ten experiences like these two examples below:

1. 8 years old / My brother being born / Awesomeness factor: 10

2. 24 years old / Graduating with a bachelor's degree in debt / Awesomeness factor:

Your Age	Event, Moment, or Experience	Awesomeness Factor (0-10)