#110, Voicemail
This week's Three-Minute Fictionary Quiz featured the short fiction work, Everything's Under Control. It told the story of a man who had accidentally let a baby elephant loose in the city. Instead of writing the story as a traditional narrative, the author, Eric Bronner, wrote it as a series of voicemails. Doing so provided a unique perspective and required a different type of language (conversational English) than that we have become accustomed to in the Literature textbook.
A voicemail is an oral message that is left on a phone. They are used instead of text messages and the language is more conversational than formal.
To complete this Journal response, complete the following tasks,
- Write two voicemails addressed to another person. It can be a friend or family, an acquaintance from PEAI, or someone else altogether (fictional characters are okay). This is a creative writing assignment so let your imagination run wild! Please format it similarly to the message below.
FIRST MESSAGE. SUNDAY MARCH 9 4:15 P.M.
Write the first voicemail here
SECOND MESSAGE. SUNDAY MARCH 9 9:39 P.M.
Write the second voicemail here
- Write a response to one of your peers as if you were the person the voicemail was addressed to. For example, if I wrote a voicemail to Elsa the Snow Queen of Arendelle, you should write a response back to me as if you were Elsa.
In addition to the voicemail response, you may also comment as normal on your peers' writing. There are several examples of stories written in this way at the link, http://www.npr.org/series/172203306/three-minute-fiction-round-10-stories
-Brenden Lee Teacher
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