Tues/Wed New Writing Assignment

Photoshop Assignment #1:Your photo on a googled background.  Bring in a full body photo into Photoshop. Find a large size interesting photo to put it on from google search.. Both photos will be open in Photoshop. Use the quick selection tool to go around the body of the person. After selecting, go to edit/cut. Click on the new background photo, then go to edit /paste. Next go to edit/transform/scale. This will put a box around your photo and scale it to where you want it, click enter to confirm. Then use the move tool to put it where you want it. lastly save both as a photoshop file(psd) and as a jpeg. Upload your jpeg to Flickr and put in an album called Photoshop#1.

REMINDER TEST ON COMPOSITION WED/THURS see links below

Assignment #2: SETTING

• You are going to write about a favourite place using the 5 senses. As you describe the place, I want to you to use words that create visuals, sounds, tastes, and a sense of touch. The idea here is to write to create an atmosphere or feeling. Make the reader be able to visualize your scene in their mind.

• You may need to build a fictional story around this place or simply begin describing it. In this assignment students are to focus on the elements of setting ( time, place, description)  using the senses and the concept of show not tell.  (10)

CRITERIA

• 1 paragraph or slightly longer, typed, edited, and then good copy handed in
• show not tell
• be specific in your writing
• use the senses when you write
• make the reader feel they can be right there with you in the setting

Example:

from "The Old House at Home" (1940)

by Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)

McSorley's bar is short, accommodating approximately ten elbows, and is shored up with iron pipes. It is to the right as you enter. To the left is a row of armchairs with their stiff backs against the wainscoting. The chairs are rickety; when a fat man is sitting in one, it squeaks like new shoes every time he takes a breath. The customers believe in sitting down; if there are vacant chairs, no one ever stands at the bar. Down the middle of the room is a row of battered tables. Their tops are always sticky with spilled ale. In the centre of the room stands the belly stove, which has an isinglass door and is exactly like the stoves in Elevated stations.

Link for Setting more info