INTERNAL MONOLOGUE ASSIGNMENT

ASSIGNMENT 3
DUE DATE: FEBRUARY 28th
INTERNAL MONOLOGUES: “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL”
Please read the following carefully.
Write TWO internal monologues, each around two double-spaced pages in length. Each is worth 6%.
Each monologue should reveal the inner thoughts of a distinct character (different characters for each monologue.) THE MONOLOGUES SHOULD BE IN THE FIRST PERSON.
Each monologue should represent the idea “Life is Beautiful.” You may be ironic, if you like, BUT stay within your personal experience. The characters are not you, but they should tell stories, have memories, express ideas with which you are familiar.
For instance, unless you moonlight as a serial killer, don’t write about murder. The story you tell doesn’t have to be about YOU, but it should be something in which you have been emotionally involved, in some way.
If chosen at an in-class pitch meeting, the monologue will be accompanied by a 3-5 minute film made by your visual story-telling group. You will have to consider the restrictions of your cinematography experience, lack of budget etc. However, remember that your images do not have to represent your monologue exactly.

This assignment is due NEXT WEEK. Late assignments will NOT be considered for the pitch meeting in visual story telling.
You will receive your marked Monologues back in week 9 (March 14th). During that class, you will discuss your monologues in groups, consider my comments and choose one to present at the pitch meeting. I will expect you to make some edits and grammar edits on the chosen piece, which you will hand into me by the end of that class for an additional grade.

Enduring Confusion

Hi y'all: as I explained to those people who showed up for class--the schedule has been pushed back one week; you monologue is NOT due on return--we haven't even started working on it properly yet. You have an analysis assignment due this Wednesday (or Friday). I'm not going to accept any excuses for lateness.

I will give you new schedule tomorrow with the new dates.

Sorry for the change, but, I warned you it might happen.

Please get it together, folks.

BTW: READING WEEK is not the same thing as a HOLIDAY. It is where you study, catch up, and work. Just sayin' . . .

Don't blow off this semester. I know you are all dying to get into your "real" courses, but if you don't finish this certificate you will have a hole on your resume that will not look good. And, if you can't finish this wee certificate properly, what in God's name makes you think you will be able to finish your diploma or degree?

NOTICE: TEST 1

You should all have now sat the editing test.

I know that some of you have not, and you were to notify me when you had booked a computer at the test centre.

If you have not sat it, and did not book a computer to sit it, please contact me as soon as possible.

Latest Assignment: Due next week

ASSIGNMENT 2: Short Story Analysis [5% of final mark.]
Due date: February 24/February 26

Closely read The Return by Sadat Hasan Manto.
Imagine this story is a voice over for a short film. Please answer the following question:
In class we saw the following methods of voice over:
1. Images support the voice over directly and tell the story we are seeing (Sunset Boulevard)
2. Images/monologue in conflict (Election)
3. Images support the narrative poetically and or thematically (American Psycho)
Describe which kind of voice over you would choose for your film of The Return. Why would this type of voice over work best to express the story? (Consider what you want to tell and what you what to show, and what you would leave out entirely.)

Length: 1-2 full double-spaced page(s)
You will be marked on your grammar, structure, and analysis of the story.


OTHER HOMEWORK:
Create a character for our writing workshop (when you return from break.) The character can be as detailed as you like. We will also be working on character in class, but see what you can come up with (for sharing).

The Dog in the Night Time

I was not a very good mother Christopher. Maybe if things had been differant, maybe if you'd been differant, I might have been better at it. But that's just the way things turned out. i'm not like your father. Your father is a much more pacient person. he just gets on with things and if things upset him he doesn't let it show. But that's not the way I am and there's nothing I can do to change that. Do you remember once when we were shopping in town together? And we went into Bentalls and it was really crowded and we had to get a Chrsitmas present for Grandma? And you were frightened. Because of all the people in the shop. It was the middle of Christmas shopping when everyone was in town. And I was talking to Mr Land who works on the kichen floor and went to school with me. And ou crouched down on the floor and put your hands over your ears and you were in the way of everyone. So I got cross, because I don't like shopping at Christmas, either, and I old you to behave and I tried to pick you up and move you. But you shouted and you knocked those mixers off the shelf and there was a big crash. And everyone turned round to see what was going on. And Mr Land was realy nice about it but there were boxes and bits of broken bowl and stuff on the floor and everyone was staring and I saw that you had wet yourself and I was so cross and I wanted to take you out of the shop but you wouldn't let me touch you and you just lay on the floor and screamed and banged your hands and feet on the floor and the maniger came and asked what the problem was and I was at the end of my tehter and I had to pay for two broken mixers and we just had to wait until you stoped screaming. And then I had to walk you all the way home which took hours becuase I knew you wouldn't go on the bus again. and I remember that night I just cried and cried and cried and your father was really ncie about it at first and he made you supper and he put you to bed and he said these things happen and it would be ok.

Strike Press Release

OPSEU has solution to avoid province-wide College strike
TORONTO – The union representing faculty members at 24 Ontario colleges has proposed a
solution to avert a potential province-wide strike.
Today, the union announced a strike deadline of February 11, 2010 if the parties cannot reach
a settlement on a new collective agreement.
However, Ted Montgomery, chair of the OPSEU bargaining team for the faculty, says that
the union is willing to send all outstanding issues to binding arbitration if a settlement cannot
be reached. If that happens, a strike can be avoided.
“First and foremost, we want to reach a negotiated settlement,” Montgomery said. “If the
Colleges won’t bargain that, we are willing to send all our outstanding issues to binding
arbitration. The Colleges, however, must agree.”
Montgomery says that while issues surrounding workload and academic freedom are of
paramount importance, the union is also taking into account the impact on students if there is
a strike.
“We have a solution if the Colleges are serious about addressing our issues,” Montgomery
said. “If they don’t want to negotiate in good faith or use the arbitration process, then it will
be clear whose interests they are putting first…and it isn’t the students’.”
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says that while he is ready to back his members
with the full weight of the union, a strike is not in everyone’s best interest.
“Even the Premier wants these negotiations resolved so that the education of Ontario students
isn’t compromised,” Thomas said. “Our members are serious about backing their demands,
but I believe that a solution can be reached. It’s up to the Colleges now.”
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