A Snapshot of a Story
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Legends, myth, and folklore:
There thousands of tales and varieties that exist in the world, but sometimes it takes too long to share your favorite one. Take your favorite myth, legend, or folktale, or find a new one, and wrap it up into a haiku. You can either do the myth as a whole, or focus on your favorite interpretation or essence of it.
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Submissions So Far
From a Wave
from wave’s foamy crest
she emerged, sharp tongue and eyes
love made incarnate
a haiku
As simple as it is, I love the “A Snapshot Of A Story” assignment. I grew up loving mythology, and I always wanted to share that love with my friends and families but anyone who …
Week 3: Assignment Bank
How Does a Song Make You Feel?
Who Inspires You
Someone who inspires me is Gary Vaynerchuck because he is brutally honest about how life is and how you need to be in order to make money and live the …
The 5 Second Rule
This assignment I chose is called A Snapshot of a Story where you have to create a haiku about your favorite myth, legend, or tale. I chose the 5 second rule because its a very funny rule that many people follow sometimes, myself included, even though it is completely false. …
Meet Cerberus the…corgi?
A Snapshot of a Story: my writing assignment for the week!
A Snapshot Of A Story: A haiku on Cerberus (the corgi ) #ds106WritingAssignment pic.twitter.com/LA5d47Ajqh
— Tom Lengel (@tlengel2) September 5, 2019
This was my fun activity for the week. In order to create this, I used Snapchat! I like …
Can you guess my Haiku poem?
This is the original assignment. I chose this for a fun, new learning activity that does not include our 80s theme from the assignment bank. This writing assignment basically asked me to take my favorite fairytale and create a Haiku that will allow the reader to read it and …
Looking at Medusa
Legends, myth, and folklore:
There thousands of tales and varieties that exist in the world, but sometimes it takes too long to share your favorite one. Take your favorite myth, legend, or folktale, or find a new one, and wrap it up into a haiku. You can either do the …
Glass Heals to the Ball
For this 1 star assignment we were asked to pick our favorite myth, legend, or folktale, and wrap it up into a haiku.
There was a young girl
Who wore glass heals to a ball
Then married the prince
If you haven’t guessed, my Haiku is about Cinderella! I loved …
Assignment Bank #1
The first assignment I completed from the assignment bank was to write a haiku about a folklore, myth, or legend. I used this to relate back to our course theme, spies. In society, there is the legend that spies always hide their identity. For example, James Bond has the codename …
HAIKU QUEEN? YES PLEASE!
Let me first start out with saying that I ADORE HAIKUS.
I LOVE THEM.
I used to work at a place called Phonathon, and I would make Haikus for all of the people that worked there, all the moods I had during work, and how hungry I was. I got …
Writing Assignment – A Snapshot of a Story
Journey
Woke up here alone
Walked towards the mountain that’s far
I made some new friends…
A Fairytale Made Shorter
A cat with boots
The ogre was killed with charm
A princess marries
Illustration from 1843, édition L. Curmer
I decided to write a Haiku on the tale “Puss in Boots” by Charles Perrault. I started by googling popular fairytales and came across the story. I had never read …
like a moth to a flame…
One of my favorite Tumblrs was the Godzilla Haiku, which I haven’t seen in a long time. So when I saw this assignment, I had to try it. I decided to use the Mothman, a West Virginia legend and the namesake of a movie that creeped me …
From a Wave
from wave’s foamy crest
she emerged, sharp tongue and eyes
love made incarnate
a haiku
As simple as it is, I love the “A Snapshot Of A Story” assignment. I grew up loving mythology, and I always wanted to share that love with my friends and families but anyone who …
Week 3: Assignment Bank
How Does a Song Make You Feel?
Who Inspires You
Someone who inspires me is Gary Vaynerchuck because he is brutally honest about how life is and how you need to be in order to make money and live the …
The 5 Second Rule
This assignment I chose is called A Snapshot of a Story where you have to create a haiku about your favorite myth, legend, or tale. I chose the 5 second rule because its a very funny rule that many people follow sometimes, myself included, even though it is completely false. …
Meet Cerberus the…corgi?
A Snapshot of a Story: my writing assignment for the week!
A Snapshot Of A Story: A haiku on Cerberus (the corgi ) #ds106WritingAssignment pic.twitter.com/LA5d47Ajqh
— Tom Lengel (@tlengel2) September 5, 2019
This was my fun activity for the week. In order to create this, I used Snapchat! I like …
Can you guess my Haiku poem?
This is the original assignment. I chose this for a fun, new learning activity that does not include our 80s theme from the assignment bank. This writing assignment basically asked me to take my favorite fairytale and create a Haiku that will allow the reader to read it and …
Looking at Medusa
Legends, myth, and folklore:
There thousands of tales and varieties that exist in the world, but sometimes it takes too long to share your favorite one. Take your favorite myth, legend, or folktale, or find a new one, and wrap it up into a haiku. You can either do the …
Glass Heals to the Ball
For this 1 star assignment we were asked to pick our favorite myth, legend, or folktale, and wrap it up into a haiku.
There was a young girl
Who wore glass heals to a ball
Then married the prince
If you haven’t guessed, my Haiku is about Cinderella! I loved …
Assignment Bank #1
The first assignment I completed from the assignment bank was to write a haiku about a folklore, myth, or legend. I used this to relate back to our course theme, spies. In society, there is the legend that spies always hide their identity. For example, James Bond has the codename …
HAIKU QUEEN? YES PLEASE!
Let me first start out with saying that I ADORE HAIKUS.
I LOVE THEM.
I used to work at a place called Phonathon, and I would make Haikus for all of the people that worked there, all the moods I had during work, and how hungry I was. I got …
Writing Assignment – A Snapshot of a Story
Journey
Woke up here alone
Walked towards the mountain that’s far
I made some new friends…
A Fairytale Made Shorter
A cat with boots
The ogre was killed with charm
A princess marries
Illustration from 1843, édition L. Curmer
I decided to write a Haiku on the tale “Puss in Boots” by Charles Perrault. I started by googling popular fairytales and came across the story. I had never read …
like a moth to a flame…
One of my favorite Tumblrs was the Godzilla Haiku, which I haven’t seen in a long time. So when I saw this assignment, I had to try it. I decided to use the Mothman, a West Virginia legend and the namesake of a movie that creeped me …
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Tutorials So Far
This assignment I am doing a tutorial for is called A Snapshot of a Story where you must create a haiku of your favorite myth. The two tough items here are choosing a myth that you can sum up in a small number of syllables and words and counting syllables. …