Assignment (this will be in 2 parts... this week and next--for this week please compose the following
1. Write a chunky paragraph telling what the "big" event is (its nature). This is mostly expository background -- on a world event (presidential election, natural disaster, NASA discovery)... a media event (news story that caught your attention, celebrity death, etc)... or on a more localized "big deal" (your brother's wedding, a graduation, a concert or protest march). All that needs to happen here is that the event be beyond your sphere... affecting others in a profound way. Write this paragraph in the 3rd person. (No mention of self.) Use the internet to do research on larger implications and to get facts right.
2. Write a paragraph of long sentence description of a setting--the place you were when you became aware of this event (or if you were somehow involved in the event). Describe the physicality of the scene. Do not mention yourself much, if at all. Put in as much sensory info as you can--all 5 senses if possible.
3. Write a 6-word-or-less sentence spine... a play by play of your actions when you heard about the event - or a play-by-play your actions during a particularly compelling moment (if you were in the event). Even dialogue must be compressed to 6-word or less bursts.
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