ELCS LAB 11

ELCS LAB 11

DATE: 08-04-2020

ACTIVITY:

A) WRITING A SHORT STORY

B) LISTENING TO YOUR FAVOURITE SPEAKER AND MAKING A NOTE

Writing Your Own Short Story:

Sometimes topics for short stories come quickly to writers. When that does not happen, writers must use various strategies to find ideas. If you are struggling for an idea, try sketching a character. Use your imagination to create your characters. Gathering details about characters. Characters are the people, animals, alien life-forms, or other creatures that take part in the action of a narrative. Before you begin drafting, get to know the characters you will develop. Use the chart below to create and examine 2 characters to learn who he, she, or it is. Decide your character’s likes and dislikes, dreams and fears, and what others think of them.

Prewriting Rubric:

Character # 1

	3	2	1	0
Character	Successfully	Gave	Barely	Did not give
Development	gave enough	details to	gave any	details to create
(x2)	details to	create a	details to	an effective
	create a	character	create a	character
	character		character
Completeness	Filled in all	Filled in	Did not	Did not fill in
	spots on the	most spots	fill in	chart
	chart	on the	more
		chart	than half
			of the
			spots

     

STEPS TO WRITE A STORY:

Step 1. Summarize your short story.

Step 2. Define your character's theme and importance to your story.

Step 3. Define your story's theme.

Step 4. Outline your short story at a high-level.

Step 5. Outline each section of your main outline in detail. (Optional)

STORY HINTS AND

Farmer in a village ............... had a hen....... Golden egg........... farmer became rich By selling golden eggs .............. greedy ............... thought to get all eggs at a time ......... killed the hen .............. found no eggs.   

The Greedy Farmer

There lived a farmer in a village. His name was Richard. He had a hen. The hen used to lay a golden egg every day. The farmer used to sell the golden egg in the market and got huge amount of money. Soon he became rich. He got a big house built. But the farmer was very greedy. He wanted to get more eggs every day. He thought, "At present I get an egg every day. This is not enough. Why should I not get all the eggs at a time? I must kill the hen to get all the golden eggs at a time." And the greedy farmer killed the hen. Did the farmer find any egg? No, He did not find any egg. He was very sad now. He could not get golden egg now. This happened only due to his greed.

Moral: Greed is curse

EXAMPLE 2

Hints

Birbal - courtiers jealous of him - ask Akbar to let them test his wiseness - one courtier puts a question to him - How many crows in Agra - Birbal asks for a week to study the situation - everyday seen on the terrace looking at the crows ? after a week courtier asks him again - Birbal says as many crow as hairs in the courtier's head-Akbar laughs. 

Clever Birbal

Some courtiers in Akbar's court were jealous of Birbal. They asked Akbar permission to let them test Birbal's wiseness. Akbar told them to go ahead.

One courtier stepped up to Birbal and said, "You are indeed very clever. Surely you can tell me how many crows there are in Agra."

Birbal thought for a moment and said, "Give me a week and I shall give you the exact number."

From that evening onwards Birbal was to be seen on the terrace staring out across at the crows that flew by or were perched on various places.

A week passed and darbar was called once again. The courtier stepped up to Birbal and put the same question to him again.

Birbal said to him, "Could you tell me how many hairs there are on your head?"

"Why no," said the man.

"I am sorry, then, "said Birbal," For that is exactly how many crows there in Agra. Akbar and all the courtiers had a hearty laugh at this.

Moral: Intelligence is strength.    

B) LISTENING TO YOUR FAVOURITE SPEAKER AND MAKING A NOTE

Listen to any motivational speaker's video of your interest and make a note containing the contents of the speech along with your opinion and suggestions

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