SCHOOL YEAR 2021-2022 FIRST QUARTER: MODULE 4

SUBJECT: CREATIVE WRITING/ MALIKHAING PAGSULAT “WRITING JOURNAL ENTRY”

I. INTRODUCTION
Before you start answering the module, I want you to set aside other tasks that will distract you while enjoying the
lessons. Read the simple instructions with comprehension below to successfully enjoy this module. Have fun!

II. STANDARD
CONTENT STANDARD
The learners have an understanding of fiction as a genre and are able to analyse its elements and techniques.
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
At the end of the module, students will be able to:
Determine various modes of fiction;
Write journal entries and other short exercises exploring key elements of fiction

III. TRANSFER
The learners will produce at least one striking scene for a short story.

IV. LESSON PROPER and ACTIVITIES

Activity 1: PICTIONARY!
Directions: Tell something about the provided pictures. Write your statements on your paper.

1. _________________ 2. _________________ 3. _________________

4. _________________ 5. _________________ 6. _________________

Fictional Genres
There are general rules to follow, for example, manuscript length, character types, settings, themes, viewpoint
choices, and plots. Certain settings suit specific genres. These will vary in type, details, intensity, and length of
description. The tone employed by the author, and the mood created for the reader, must also suit the genre.

Why Does Genre Matter?

Genres are great because they fulfil reader expectations. We purchase certain books since we have appreciated
comparative stories previously. Perusing these books gives us a feeling of having a place, of plunking down with an old
companion and knowing we're on recognizable ground. There is additionally a brotherhood between readers who follow
similar classes.
Journalists can utilize this for their potential benefit on the grounds that their limits are models on which to base
stories. Sorts reflect patterns in the public arena, and they advance when authors push the limits. At last choose if the trial
has worked by purchasing these books.
The most significant piece of sort fiction, however, is that it satisfies our human requirement for classic narrating.
We some of the time need stories we can depend on to dull the unforgiving real factors of life.
These are some of the fictional genres that you may encounter while reading a story or watching a film. But, let us
focus only with some of the most common fictional genres that you may select in writing your own fictional story.

1. FANTASY
Stories that are imaginative but could never really happen. The setting may be of another world. Characters might
be magical like talking animals, sorceries, witches and wizardry. It is a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and
adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.
Many fantasy novels involve adventure as a key feature. Characters may discover portals to other worlds or
discover hidden magic, wonder and surprise in our own world. Novels from C.S. Lewis’s classic Chronicles of Narnia

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series to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series populate imaginary worlds with mythical beasts, powerseeking tyrants and
more.
Characters adventure through worlds where the impossible is possible. Exploring the ‘impossible’ is another
common element in fantasy. Magical wands may weave spells that defy the laws of physics as we know them.
Other time magic is spoken, chanted, or ripples through land and landscape.

Element 1: Magic
The word magic comes from the Greek magikos, from magos. This means ‘one of the members of the learned and
priestly class’. This explains how magic, in fantasy, is often associated with learning, with complex books and rituals.
Magic in great books takes many forms. The apprentice wizards in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter duel with wands. In C.S.
Lewis’ Narnia series, a witch casts a spell over the Kingdom of Narnia, plunging it into eternal winter. She also destroys a
secondary world by speaking ‘the Deplorable Word’.

Element 2: Adventure
Adventure in fantasy is common, from bands of travelling, questing heroes (like Frodo and friends in Tolkien’s
The Lord of the Rings) to girls who fall down magical rabbit holes (Alice in Wonderland). Adventure in fantasy often
features another meaning of magic: ‘A quality of being beautiful and delightful in a way that seems remote from daily
life.’
Adventure does indeed take us to places that seem remote from daily life, full of new joys and discoveries (or
dangers). In Frodo’s adventures, he finds both the dazzling land of the elves, Lothlorien, and the foul, stinking lands of
Mordor where the story’s villain resides. Adventure means ‘an unusual and exciting or daring experience’, as well as
‘excitement associated with danger or the taking of risks.’

Element 3: Struggle for mystery

Themes of struggle and mastery are found in many forms throughout many fantasy novels. Part of this is due to
fantasy’s origins in ideas of arcane, ‘special’, yet volatile and dangerous knowledge. The initiate often must learn to
control the unpredictable surges of ‘wild’ magic, to trace or utter the ‘right’ thing to achieve the desired effect. This
process of struggle and mastery is often shown in character development. Sometimes characters use power irresponsibly.
For example, a character tries to ruin a magical game of the airborne sport Quidditch in Rowling’s fantasy series. Struggle
in fantasy fiction includes: Struggle for mastery of self: Understanding and using one’s own power effectively or wisely
Conflict between those who use their own magical mastery for positive or destructive ends.

Element 4: Setting
Because of its exploration of the otherworldly and the supernatural, place is a key aspect of many fantasy novels.
Some places are created through magic. The lion Aslan sings the Kingdom of Narnia into being in C.S. Lewis’ lore. (A
Christian mythology parallel to the Creation in the Bible.) By contrast, Jadis, the White Witch, destroys a whole world by
speaking a powerful word. In fantasy, we often strongly experience both characters’ effects on their world, and their
world’s effects and influence on them. These are some of the literary pieces under fantasy genre:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by K. Rowling
The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Charlie and Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl The Lord of the Rings trilogy / Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alice Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
2. HISTORICAL FICTION
A story that takes place in a historically accurate time and setting. The characters and some events are fictional.

Element 1: Character – whether real or imagined, characters behave in keeping with the era they inhabit, even if they
push the boundaries. And that means discovering the norms, attitudes, beliefs and expectations of their time and station in
life.

Element 2: Dialogue - is cumbersome and difficult to understand detracts from readers’ enjoyment of historical fiction.
Dip occasionally into the vocabulary and grammatical structures of the past by inserting select words and phrases so that a
reader knows s/he is in another time period.

Element 3: Setting – setting is time and place. More than 75% of participants in a 2013 reader survey selected ‘to bring
the past to life’ as the primary reason for reading historical fiction. Your job as a writer is to do just that. Even more
critically, you need to transport your readers into the past in the first few paragraphs. Consider these opening sentences.

Element 4: Plot – the plot has to make sense for the time period. And plot will often be shaped around or by the historical
events taking place at that time. This is particularly true when writing about famous historical figures. When considering
those historical events, remember that you are telling a story not writing history.

Element 5: Conflict – the problems faced by the characters in your story. As with theme and plot, conflict must be
realistic for the chosen time and place. Readers will want to understand the reasons for the conflicts you present. An
unmarried woman in the 15th century might be forced into marriage with a difficult man or the taking of religious vows.
Both choices lead to conflict. These are some of the literary pieces under historical fiction genre:
 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
 Tolstoy's epic masterpiece depicting the French invasion of Russia during the
 Napoleonic era
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  Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
 The fictional memoir of a geisha, from age nine to adulthood, in pre- and post WWII Japan.
 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo The friar's daughter : a story of the American occupation of the
Philippines
 A gothic novel that inspired a flood of tourists to Paris' most famous cathedral.
 (Girard, Kansas : the author, 1909), by Charles Lincoln Phifer (page images at HathiTrust)
 Luha at dugo : (hayag na pangyayari, buhat ng 1895 hanggang 1913) by M. B. Sevilla.

3. SCIENCE FICTION
A story that is typically set in the future or on other planets. It is based on the impact of actual, imagined, or
potential science. It is a type of imaginative literature. It provides a mental picture of something that may happen on
realistic scientific principles and facts. This fiction might portray, for instance, a world where young people are living on
Mars. Hence, it is known as “futuristic fiction.” It dramatizes the wonders of technology, and resembles heroic fantasy
where magic is substituted with technology. Often called “sci-fi,” is a genre of fiction literature whose content is
imaginative, but based in science. It relies heavily on scientific facts, theories, and principles as support for its settings,
characters, themes, and plot-lines, which is what makes it different from fantasy.

Importance of Science Fiction

Many times, science fiction turns real scientific theories into full stories about what is possible and/or imaginable. Many
stories use hard facts and truths of sciences to:
 suggest what could really happen in the future
 to explore what could happen if certain events or circumstances came to be or
 suggest consequences of technological and scientific advancements and innovation.
Historically it has been a popular form for not only authors, but scientists as well. In the past 150 years, science fiction has
become a huge genre, with a particularly large presence in film and television—in fact, the TV network “SciFi” is
completely devoted to science fiction media. It is a particularly fascinating and mind-bending genre for audiences because
of its connection to reality. These are some of the literary pieces under Science Fiction genre:
 The Avengers  The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by  Men in Black 3 by Barry Sonnenfeld
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  Planet of the Apes by Franklin J. Schaffner
 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell  The Matrix by Wachowski brothers
 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

4. MYSTERY FICTION
Mystery (pronounced mis-tuh-ree, ) is a genre of literature whose stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or
circumstance that needs to be solved. The term comes from the Latin mysterium, meaning “a secret thing.” stories can be
either fictional or nonfictional, and can focus on both supernatural and non-supernatural topics. Many mystery stories
involve what is called a “whodunit” scenario, meaning the mystery revolves around the uncovering a culprit or criminal.

Importance of Mystery
Mysteries began to gain popularity in the Victorian era, mostly in the form of gothic literature, which was
primarily for women. Since then it has developed in both form and reach, and has become a widely read genre among
male and female readers of all ages. Mysteries are important because they feature topics that are usually both fascinating
and troubling to the human mind—unsolved crimes, unexplained questions and events in natural and human history,
supernatural curiosities, and so on.
The late 1800’s gave rise to the iconic fictional character Sherlock Holmes, a detective who is featured in a series
of mystery novels and short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of the stories are told from the perspective of
Dr. Watson, Holmes’s assistant and companion. Holmes is an independent detective based in London with eccentric
personality and highly logical reasoning skills. Below is a short selection from the novel The Hound of Baskerville:
Another item had been added to that constant and apparently purposeless series of small mysteries which had
succeeded each other so rapidly. Setting aside the whole grim story of Sir Charles’s death, we had a line of inexplicable
incidents all within the limits of two days, which included the receipt of the printed letter, the black-bearded spy in the
hansom, the loss of the new brown boot, the loss of the old black boot, and now the return of the new brown boot.
Holmes sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to Baker Street, and I knew from his drawn brows and keen face that
his mind, like my own, was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently
disconnected episodes could be fitted.

Here, Watson is running through some of the clues to the victim’s death in his head. He also expresses his
familiarity with Holmes’ character and skills by telling the audience that he knows the detective is finding the connections
between all of these clues in his mind; which will inevitably lead to the solving of the mysterious murder.
These are some of the literary pieces under Mystery Fiction genre:
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
A run-away bestseller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has everything a mystery requires. Murder, family ties,
love in the air, and financial shenanigans. What happened to Harriet Vanger who disappeared forty years ago? Mikael
Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, a tattooed and pierced hacker genius, are on the case. They
uncover family iniquity and corruption at the top of Sweden’s industrial ladder.
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2. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Ten people, strangers, gather on a private island as weekend guests of an unseen eccentric millionaire. These
strangers have secrets to keep, but one by one they are murdered. They all have something in common, though—they each
have a wicked past they’re hiding, a secret that seals their fate. Only the dead are above suspicion.
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone’s logical mind can find patterns and rules for everything but has little time or
inclination for understanding human emotions. When his neighbour’s dog, Wellington, is killed, he starts a quest to find
the killer using Sherlock Holmes as his model.

5. REALISTIC FICTION
A story that seems real or could happen in real life. It is set in present day and includes modern day problems and events.

Characteristics of Realistic Fiction

A quick way to classify a story or novel as realistic fiction is to identify the following characteristics within that literary
work:
1. Realistic fiction stories tend to take place in the present or recent past.
2. Characters are involved in events that could happen.
3. Characters live in places that could be or are real.
4. The characters seem like real people with real issues solved in a realistic way (so say goodbye to stories containing
vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, dragons, zombies, etc.).
5. The events portrayed in realistic fiction conjure questions that a reader could face in everyday life.
Realistic fiction attempts to portray the world as it is. It contains no fantasy, no supernatural elements, and it
usually depicts ordinary people going about the business of daily living, with all its joys, sorrow, successes, and failures.
Over the past 150 years, children's literature has gradually moved from a romantic view of the world toward a
more realistic view (*Note: "Romance" refers to the fiction portraying a world that seems happier than the one we live in).
Subjects that were once taboo in realistic fiction are now commonplace, and language and character development are
presented with greater candor and boldness.
1. In good realistic fiction,
2. the characters are engaging and believable.
3. the dialogue is believable.
4. the plot is fresh and original.
5. the setting is true to life.
6. the problems faced by the characters are honestly portrayed.
7. the resolution makes sense.
8. the theme grows naturally out of the action and characters - the writer does not preach at us.
These are some of the literary pieces under Mystery Fiction genre:
1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
John Green’s fourth novel, The Fault in Our Stars, has gained a following among tween and teen readers. This is
partly due to its tragic love story, but may also be due to its thought-provoking subject matter. The book explores
philosophical questions about the meaning of life, death, and suffering. While adults may find the topics in this novel
heavy and too mature for children, Green believes that young readers are probably already thinking about them.
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a realistic fiction novel, humorously describes the troubles of being in middle school and
trying to fit in with integrated text and drawings. This is the first book in the immensely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid
series.
3. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Every April, when the wind blows from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his
last year at Beaufort High. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. He even swore that he had once been
in love. Certainly the last person in town he thought he’d fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town’s Baptist
minister. A quiet girl who always carried a Bible with her schoolbooks, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from
the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals, and helped out at the local orphanage. No boy
had ever asked her out. Landon would never have dreamed of it. Then a twist of fate made Jamie his partner for the
homecoming dance, and Landon Carter’s life would never be the same. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of
the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood.

6. HORROR
The horror genre in literature dates back to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, where horror stories explored
themes related to death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife. Examples include the ancient Greek tragedy Hippolytus by
Euripides, a gruesome story about how jealousy and a lack of empathy can lead to tragedy; and Parallel Lives by Plutarch,
a series of biographies highlighting the many moral failures of man.
The gothic novel, a genre of horror that focuses specifically on death, originated in the eighteenth century and is
exemplified by the author Edgar Allan Poe. Horror literature in the nineteenth century and twentieth centuries often
focused on tales involving occult ideas, like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (1818) or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).
Modern horror novels have expanded the genre to include new elements and contemporary themes, like serial killers and
slasher stories—Stephen King’s The Shining (1977) is a perfect example—as well as genre mashups that combine horror
with historical fantasy, and modern interpretations of fantastical creatures, like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and
witches.

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Other Fictional Genres:
7. Adventure - A story where a protagonist and other major characters and are placed in dangerous situations. The
characters must use their wit and skills to defeat the antagonist.
8. Folktales
a. Fable - A brief story that is meant to tell a lesson or a moral. The characters are usually animals with human
characteristics.
b. Fairy Tale - A story that has magical elements. The characters are usually fairies, giants, elves, and other
magical creatures.
c. Legend - A story usually about a national or folk hero. This story takes place in a particular time and place and
is partly true and partly fiction. The character traits of the hero are typically exaggerated.
d. Tall Tale - A humorous story with extreme exaggerations. The main character, or hero, usually does
impossible things with ease.
e. Myth - A story that is often based on a historical event that is meant to serve as an explanation for some
phenomenon of nature or human behavior. Characters are usually gods.

Tips in Creative Writing – Writing a Fictional Story

Knowing that after taking this module, you will be writing your own well-crafted poem considering the elements,
techniques and devices presented. You have also to decide the form of the poetry, the diction, tone and other essential
elements that you have learned in the previous modules.

Some Tips in Writing a Fictional Story

Writing fiction is not as hard as it seems, as long as you follow these eight simple rules:

1. Choose what design you need to compose your fiction in.

This may rely upon what kind of story you need to tell. For instance, on the off chance that you need to compose
an epic dream that traverses numerous ages, a novel (or even a progression of books) may work superior to a short story.
In case you're keen on investigating the mind of a solitary character, a short story might be perfect

2. Show, don’t tell.

Recall sharing time in grade school, when you'd acquire an article from home and discussion about it? I need you
to recollect that experience and the exercises about narrating it bestowed. At that point concoct a time machine, and travel
back to primary school, and find a new line of work as a second-grade educator, and ensure you get yourself as an
understudy in your group, and in the time machine bring along an iPhone, and offer it to your second-grade self. All the
children will be overwhelmed, despite the fact that it won't get telephone gathering since mobile phone towers haven't
been fabricated at this point. The more youthful you will create more noteworthy confidence from your recently
discovered notoriety, and proceed to lead a more extravagant grown-up life, and have more material to expound on.

3. Build up the stakes early.

To be connecting with, your fiction needs clear stakes for its characters. These don't need to be world-breaking,
yet they do need to feel critical to the characters.
For instance, regardless of whether a courageous woman gets the chance to be involved with the individual she
adores likely won't be the apocalypse for every other person, yet it is something that ought to be significant for the
character.
Some of the time, the stakes truly are the apocalypse, for example, in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
arrangement, wherein the characters' inability to pulverize the One Ring will bring about the pulverization of Middle
Earth by evil. These kinds of stakes are generally best saved for dream and legends.

4. Create three-dimensional characters.

Let's assume you're expounding on a hardcharging broker who's having an extramarital illicit relationship. This is
a decent beginning, however to abstain from transforming him into an adage, you have to round him out in three
measurements. In each passage, tell the peruser precisely how high, wide, and long he is.

5. Figure out the basic setting and plot.

You have to have a strong feeling of what your story's reality resembles, who lives on the planet, and what will
occur in your story before you begin composing full scenes and sections. In the event that you have a decent
comprehension of your characters, which you ought to have in the wake of conceptualizing, let their characters and
blemishes control your plot.
For setting, ask yourself questions like these: When is it? Is it in the present? The future? The past? More than
one? What's the season? Is it cold, hot or mild? Is it stormy? Where is it? Is it in this world? A different world? An
alternate universe? What country? City? Province/State?
For plot, ask yourself questions like these: Who is in it? What is their role? Are they good or bad? What flaws do
they have? What goals do they have? What is the precipitating incident that made this story happen in the first place? Is
there something that happened in the past that could affect what happens in the future?
Regardless of whether you start in the activity, it's significant that you as of now have a thought of what happened
previously. Regardless of whether you just suggest or allude to the occasions that occurred before the beginning of your
story, it will be simpler for you to be inside predictable and for your perusers to fill in the spaces if there's a built up
backstory.

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6. Choose a point of view.
Decide which point of view makes most sense for your story: first person; second person; third person, either
limited or the omniscient. You have known the different types of Point of View. Consiodering the applicability of the
point of view and the effectiveness of it in telling a story.

7. Don’t be too predictable.

While a lot of fiction proceeds along very familiar lines -consider how many stories are about heroic quests or 2
people who initially hate each other but learn to love each other -- you don’t want to lapse into formulaic storytelling. If
your reader can predict everything that’s going to happen, they won’t care about finishing your story.
For example, you could have a romance novel in which it’s hard to see how the characters will end up happily
ever after because of the situations they’re in or their personality flaws. The surprise for readers will be how things do end
up working out in the end, despite all appearances to the contrary.

8. Give your characters motivations. If you’re having trouble fleshing out your characters, continually ask yourself in
each scene, “What does this character want?” Say this out loud enough, and soon someone nearby will ask why you keep
repeating that. Do not reply, but simply keep questioning aloud, “What does this character want?” Eventually you’ll be
committed to an asylum. Asylums are great places to think without the distractions of the modern world. I’m sure you’ll
figure out that pesky protagonist in no time.

9. Start writing what you know.

You may want to try pen and paper instead of the computer for the first draft. If you're sitting at a computer and
there's one part that you just can't seem to get right, you could find yourself sitting there for ages trying to figure it out,
typing and re-typing. With pen and paper, you just write it and it's on paper. If you get stuck, you can skip it and keep
going. Just start wherever seems like a good place and write. Use your outline when you forget where you're going. Keep
on going until you get to the end.
If you're more of a computer person, a software program like Scrivener may help you get started. These programs
let you write multiple little documents, such as character profiles and plot summaries, and keep them all in the same place

10. No tears for the writer, no tears for the reader.

If you’re not moved by your story, don’t expect your reader to be. Therefore, sob uncontrollably as you compose.
Slice onions to abet the process.

11. Revise, revise, revise.

This goes without saying. Follow the Writing Process that you have learned. Revision literally means to re-view
something, to look at it again. Look at your fiction from the point of view of your readers, not you as a writer. If you had
paid money to read this book, would you be satisfied? Do you feel a connection to your characters?
Revision can be incredibly hard; there’s a reason why in the writing business it’s often talked about as “killing your
darlings.”
Don't be afraid to cut out words, paragraphs, and even entire sections. Most people pad their stories with
extraneous words or passages. Cut, cut, cut. That is the key to success.

12. Trust yourself.

Ultimately, you should value your own judgment over that of others. Except for this list of writing rules. It is
completely accurate.

Activity 2: I-“GENRE”-FICATION
Directions: Read the synopsis of the literary pieces. Identify their fictional genre. Note that some of the literary pieces
might have more than one genre. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

1. Travis Shaw is a ladies' man who thinks a serious relationship would cramp his easygoing lifestyle. Gabby Holland is a
feisty medical student who's preparing to settle down with her long-term boyfriend. Fate brings the two together as Gabby
moves next door to Travis, sparking an irresistible attraction that upends both of their lives. As their bond grows, the
unlikely couple must decide how far they're willing to go to keep the hope of love alive.

2. 84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert,
Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912,
on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth
DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend
Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the
death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

3. A student named Tine wants to get rid of a gay admirer. His friends recommend getting a pretend boyfriend, Sarawat,
who plays hard to get, until he finally agrees. The two become close and intense emotions soon erupted.

4. Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in
with the trendy girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarries and Bella chooses to live with her
father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change
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when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever
met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul.
In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward
really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh,
and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's
just in the movies.

5. Our friendly neighborhood Super Hero decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European
vacation. However, Peter's plan to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly
agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks, creating havoc across the continent.

6. As the film begins, we see Owen and Mariella are fighting in a car by a lake. It appears that Owen has left his wife to
be with Mariella, and is angry that Mariella is not willing to make the same sacrifice. The fight turns violent, and Owen
has hit Mariella through the car window. Mariella tries to escape from the car, and the scene cuts to flashback. We see
Mariella telling her husband, Ivan, that her best friend, Samantha needs company and she drives off into the night. Later
that evening, their daughter Angel comes to Ivan looking for her mother, and Ivan tells Angel that her mother has gone
away. There is a car that passes by in the area where a bloody Mariella is looking for help, in the middle of a rainstorm.
The driver and his passenger are singing Christmas carols in the car, Mariella knows she is dead.

7. Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the
vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes,
however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and Glinda (Michelle Williams),
who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing
the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his
magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great
and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

8. Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what
opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.
Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold:
death or redemption.

V. NEW IDEAS
After going through this module, what Anthonian attitude did you develop? As an Anthonian, I develop
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VI. EVALUATION: CREATIVE MINDS!

Directions: Write one journal entry or other short composition or story exploring key elements of fiction considering the
elements, literary devices and techniques presented in the previous module and the genre that you have chosen
considering your created outline. You have the freedom to choose and utilize any of the elements, forms, and other
essential topics about fictional prose. Do this output in a yellow paper. You may be creative in presenting your output.
You will be guided by the rubrics in grading your outputs.

RUBRICS IN SHORT STORY WRITING

CATEGOR Exceptional Good Fair Poor
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The reader can figure
Many vivid, descriptive Some vivid, descriptive The reader has
out when and where
words are used to tell words are used to tell the trouble figuring out
Setting the story took place,
when and where the audience when and where when and where the
but the author didn't
story took place. the story took place. story took place.
supply much detail.
The main characters are The main characters are The main characters
named and clearly named and described. Most are named. The It is hard to tell who
Characters described. Most readers readers would have some reader knows very the main characters
could describe the idea of what the characters little about the are.
characters accurately. looked like. characters.
It is fairly easy for the
It is very easy for the It is fairly easy for the
reader to understand
reader to understand the reader to understand the It is not clear what
Problem/ the problem the main
problem the main problem the main problem the main
Conflict characters face but it is
characters face and why characters face and why characters face.
not clear why it is a
it is a problem. it is a problem.
problem.
The solution to the
The solution to the The solution to the No solution is
character's problem is
Solution/ character's problem is character's problem is attempted or it is
easy to understand, and
Resolution easy to understand, and a little hard to impossible to
is logical. There are no
is somewhat logical. understand. understand.
loose ends.
Dialogue There is an appropriate There is too much There is not quite It is not clear which
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 amount of dialogue to
dialogue in this story, enough dialogue in
bring the characters to
but it is always clear this story, but it is
life and it is always character is speaking.
which character is always clear which
clear which character is
speaking. character is speaking.
speaking.
The story is very well The story is pretty well
The story is a little
organized. One idea or organized. One idea or Ideas and scenes seem
Organizatio hard to follow. The
scene follows another scene may seem out of to be randomly
n transitions are
in a logical sequence place. Clear transitions arranged.
sometimes not clear.
with clear transitions. are used.
The story contains many The story contains a few The story contains a
creative details and/or creative details and/or few creative details There is little evidence
descriptions that descriptions that and/or descriptions, of creativity in the
Creativity contribute to the reader's contribute to the reader's but they distract from story. The author does
enjoyment. The author enjoyment. The author the story. The author not seem to have used
has really used has used his/her has tried to use his/her much imagination.
his/her imagination. imagination. imagination.
The story contains
The story contains so
many and/or serious
The story contains no The story contains few many errors in
errors in grammar,
Mechanics errors in grammar, minor errors in grammar, grammar, usage, and
usage, or mechanics;
usage, or mechanics. usage, or mechanics. mechanics that errors
may interfere
block reading.
with reading.

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