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postcards from the past.
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Based off of a final project I had in Spanish class, this assignment I’ve created involves history and some form of artistic creativity–preferably writing, but I won’t limit you to just that medium! Find an old archive: letter, postcard, photograph, memo, computer document, e-mail. Then, form a story surrounding the piece. Develop a general, basic narrative or back story and characters. It doesn’t have to be super long; it can be a haiku or a novella–your choice. Let the past inspire you! My example is a postcard from World War I. It was discovered unsent and from an unknown author, ...
ITunes Poem
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I always would listen to songs on ITunes and just so being when I would read the titles the would make up a poem of would make a cool meaningful sentence. When I actually tried creating this poem for the DS106 Assignment ‘Stories Written In Windows Media Player” it was a little harder than I thought. Maybe because I had to actually put in effort. This is what I came up with.
Vergnügungen von Bertolt Brecht
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A 1-star Poetry Reading assignment: Poetry is meant to be read aloud. Select a poem – it can be a personal favorite or one you find randomly – and read it aloud in a way that itself makes it a story. Then at the ending of that poem extend it or connect it to a story — this has to be more than just reading a poem to be a story. Bertolt Brecht, “Vergnügungen” [1954] Der erste Blick aus dem Fenster am Morgen Das wiedergefundene alte Buch Begeisterte Gesichter Schnee, der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten Die Zeitung Der Hund Die Dialektik Duschen, ...