10/18
1. IRB
2. Study for the Good Word Quiz tomorrow!
3. Write a short, short story (2-3 pages) fleshing out your group’s plot idea. You will share this in class tomorrow with your group and harvest the best ideas that come from your members’ writing. The plots each group came up with are listed below:
Ray, Yo, Sam L. Pilar, Lindsay
Plot:
The main character of the story is totally consumed with his hatred for the King Arthur. The hatred stems from the kings refusal to knight the hero. Humiliated and disheartened, the hero is fixated with wishing evil upon the king.
A wizard who is trying to take over the kingdom needs to harvest hatred as the last component of his magical brew. The wizard tries to antagonize the hero so that his hate peaks for the king and the wizard can take over the kingdom.
Or
Lily is an underestimated dragon who has been passed over by knights who don’t find her very threatening mostly because of her name and maybe because she is female. Lily loves the forest and is upset when a King Arthur threatens to chop down all the trees to build Camelot in her native woods. Lily decides to rally all the animals and woodland fairies to protest against King Arthur. Sadly, the animals and fairies don’t take Lily seriously either, though. How will she mobilize the creatures of the forest to stop the deforestation?
Luca, Sam S. Lachlan, Justine, Sarah & Wim
Plot:
The townspeople are suspicious of a family of orphans who they claim are witches and warlocks. They people claim they have seen the orphans in their fields at night and believe their magic is the reason their many of livestock (cows and sheep) have gotten sick and died. Arthur sends in a squire to investigate this and promises to knight him if he can bring peace to the village.
Jack, Charlotte, Ayden & Lauren
Plot:
A peasant artist realizes that one of his paintbrushes allows him to create real things. He is eager to rise up the feudal ranks and stop living the life of a peasant, but King Arthur refuses to grant him audience mostly because he doesn’t like his type of modern art. The artist, feeling dismissed and desperate, starts to paint each one of Arthur’s knights into masterpiece paintings. One by one, each of the Knights of the Round Table disappear. The painter’s wife realizes what is happening and it is up to her to stop her beloved husband.
Lucy, Julia, Isabel B, Isabel W, Stella Rose
Plot:
Marigold is a wizard in training and wants be as great at magic as Merlin. She is scared that she will not be allowed into the wizards’ elite academy to study because no girl has ever been accepted before. Time and time again, Marigold has faced discrimination because of she is a girl. She poses as a boy and is accepted to the academy. There she learns how to read, write and the magical arts. Marigold knows that if she is found out she risks banishment from Camelot. How can she change people’s opinion of women and get King Arthur to help women’s rights?