Themes and Concepts
This phrase is shorthand for revealing things in scenes and details rather than talking about them
What is "show don't tell"?
This one has forty-two parts
What is "42 Tattoos"?
The four genres included in every issue of Bartleby
What are fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art?
The number of absences you are allowed
What are four?
...was about a school lockdown
Who is Sara?
This type of essay has sections instead of a single continuous narrative
What is segmented?
A bunch of invoices to a moving company
What is "United Van Lines"?
The amount of the Bartleby creative nonfiction prize
What is $100?
There were ten of these, all graded pass/fail
What are the reading responses?
...is about a submarine
Who is Jon?
This truth can be more important than the factual truth
What is emotional truth?
This one sent us outside to stare at grass and bugs
What is "Seeing"?
The item used for the door prizes at the Bartleby reading
What is a tee shirt?
Essay #1 counted for this percentage of the total grade
What is 30%?
...is about medals passed down through the family
Who is Danylo?
An example of a common feature in fiction writing that is also used in creative nonfiction
What is scene-making or dialogue or character development or detail or voice or figurative language?
An amateur photographer looks at lots of murals
What is "The Walls of Baltimore"?
The number of copies of Bartleby that you were allowed to take home from the reading
What is as many as you want!
The total number of different groups that students were assigned to, for writing the essays
What is six?
some facts about the stars, blended with stories of friends and family
Who is Josh?
This term refers to the courageous act of writing toward the difficult, challenging tensions in the story you are telling
What is "facing the dragon"?
This one included excerpts of a home movie
What is "Silent Dancing"?
Description of the front cover of the new issue of Bartleby
What is an image of a tattooed white male?
Miscellaneous assignments counted for this percentage of the total grade
What is 20%?
horses!
Who is Kat?