750: Process-Writing Prompts for “Fatso”

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Bryan

For this class, we’ll break into small groups for RPG (role-playing game) conversation.  Here are the roles that you can choose from:

Discussion director:  develops a list of discussion questions and facilitates the group discussion, keeping everyone on topic and on track.

Reporter: takes notes on the group’s responses on paper, edits what the group has written, then shares the group’s thinking with the whole class.

Encourager:  the encourager makes sure that all the members in the group are participating and invites reluctant members to contribute.

The Questioner: drives discussion forward by posing open-ended questions

The Contrarian: takes the opposite position

Mr. Alternative: Have you considered another possibility, such as . . .

Step 1: Go to this link here to sign up for your role.  It’s first-come, first-served, so you probably want to do it now.

Step 2: Look at the prompts below, then do your process-writing with your role in mind.

“Fatso”

This is a story of/This is a story about . . .

Does the main guy change during the course of the story?  How so?  What factors cause the change?

What’s the arc, or movement of this story?  From what to what?

“I love you” appears in the second paragraph.  The story ends with another claim of love.  Do you believe him the first time?  The second time?  Support your answers with evidence from the text.

Fiction is “the lie that tells the truth.”  That is, it can speak truth or illuminate human behavior even if it’s not “realistic.”  Where’s the truth in this story?  How does it illuminate real human behavior and relationships?

 

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56 Responses to 750: Process-Writing Prompts for “Fatso”

  18. elliot says:
    February 9, 2011 at 3:36 am

    http://750words.com/entries/share/554785

    It took me a really long time to scroll all the way to the bottom.

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  19. Conor J. Owens says:
    February 9, 2011 at 2:14 am

    I get to play the Barbarian!

    http://750words.com/entries/share/554484

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