pkmncoordinators:

theroadyouchoose:

I saw @pkmncoordinators talking about Farla again and you know, a part of me kind of wonders where she (Farla) and a few other people (like the one I had to deal with not long ago) learn to properly review things? Like, why do you think that’s the right way to do things? How were you educated.

I have now decided that it’s up to the education system to make sure people properly know how to properly review fanfiction. I’ll even make a goddamn assignment and marking rubric for it.

Read ten (10) pieces of fanfiction rated K-T. Properly review all stories with the two (2) compliments per one (1) critique method. Provide printed version of all reviews and links to fanfiction. Due the end of January. Please no smut. 

If you think I can’t work Pokemon Fanfiction into English curriculum you would be wrong. 

Fanfiction Assignment

Directions: Go to fanfiction.net. Choose three completed fanfics (rated K-T) from any fandom(s) of your choice. For each, write a review using a minimum of 150 words. Include copies of your reviews and the fanfics’ URLs submitted on a Google Doc through [Blackboard/Canvas/Online Module]. Use the below guiding questions for your reviews.

1. How does the author employ theme in the story? How does their choice in theme contribute to the overall meaning of the story? Cite evidence from the text to explain.
2. What choices does the author make in characterization? Do you feel their characterization is true to the source material or not? Explain your answer providing specific details.
3. What point of view does the author use? What effect does this choice have on the overall story? Do you feel this choice was appropriate for the purpose of their story? Explain.
4. What is the overall mood of the story? Cite specific words or phrases the author uses to create this mood. What effect does this mood have on the overall meaning of the story?
5. What choices does the author makes in plot to build mystery, suspense, tension, or conflict? Explain using specific examples. What is your reaction to these choices?

Remember, it is always polite to thank the author for sharing their work.

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This assignment aligns with the following ELA Common Core Standards for high school freshman and sophomore students:

• 9-10.RL.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 
• 9-10.RL.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details
• 9-10.RL.3 Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of the text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop theme
• 9-10.RL.4 

  Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone

• 9-10.RL.5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
• 9-10.W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 
• 9-10.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.