LESSON FOR 6/9/2010
For claire_chan :
You have until 10:00 AM to complete this.
When you think of the perfect criminal, what qualities come to mind? In what ways does the author convey their psychopathic tendencies and criminal behaviors?
Find a short story with at least one criminal in it; read it then analyze. Please send me the analysis and story to my West Chester e-mail.
You have until 2:00 PM to complete this assignment. When I get home, I am going to scan a section from this book for you to read, then complete questions to hand in on June 25.
When I write crime fiction, as I LOVE to write crime fiction, I think of the worst of society. As I also love reading medical manuals (or borrow the psych books from the 600 section of the library) and take the worst of each mental disorder. I also use a lot of history, being the history scholar that I am and take the worst in history. For example: a skinhead from the Ku Klux Klan. I'd make the infamous character list. For example:
Name: Walter
Age: 21
Religion: Baptist
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Mental disorder: severe depression
Then I'd write that maybe Walter was invited to join the Klan and he would have to commit a murder to join. As a depressive, he doesn't find it hard to do. Please read a story I wrote in 2006 for a creative writing class I took in eleventh grade. http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1163000-Will-Be-the-Conqueror
Then take this list below and write a brief (250 words) story related to crime fiction for your binder that I will grade at the end. Then chose one and write a story (750 words). Please hand it in by 4:30. I want to see how you do before I post the other elements of crime writing (from the book Malicious Intent):
A boy in a rural town, overseas, in 1965.
A man returning home from war in 1877.
A woman who works as a prostitute, very poor.
A young girl who feels isolated at school.
Later we'll discuss more crime fiction.
You have until 10:00 AM to complete this.
When you think of the perfect criminal, what qualities come to mind? In what ways does the author convey their psychopathic tendencies and criminal behaviors?
Find a short story with at least one criminal in it; read it then analyze. Please send me the analysis and story to my West Chester e-mail.
You have until 2:00 PM to complete this assignment. When I get home, I am going to scan a section from this book for you to read, then complete questions to hand in on June 25.
When I write crime fiction, as I LOVE to write crime fiction, I think of the worst of society. As I also love reading medical manuals (or borrow the psych books from the 600 section of the library) and take the worst of each mental disorder. I also use a lot of history, being the history scholar that I am and take the worst in history. For example: a skinhead from the Ku Klux Klan. I'd make the infamous character list. For example:
Name: Walter
Age: 21
Religion: Baptist
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Mental disorder: severe depression
Then I'd write that maybe Walter was invited to join the Klan and he would have to commit a murder to join. As a depressive, he doesn't find it hard to do. Please read a story I wrote in 2006 for a creative writing class I took in eleventh grade. http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1163000-Will-Be-the-Conqueror
Then take this list below and write a brief (250 words) story related to crime fiction for your binder that I will grade at the end. Then chose one and write a story (750 words). Please hand it in by 4:30. I want to see how you do before I post the other elements of crime writing (from the book Malicious Intent):
A boy in a rural town, overseas, in 1965.
A man returning home from war in 1877.
A woman who works as a prostitute, very poor.
A young girl who feels isolated at school.
Later we'll discuss more crime fiction.