Imaginative nonFifction
Empathy Interviews
We kick off this project with practicing empathy interviews with each other and then writing about it. Then we took it to our house and interviewed people in our like our mom or dad. After that we were ready to go and interview the people that we would end up writing about. I interviewed one of my good friend's grandma because I knew that her life story was really interesting. I also interviewed one of my eight grade teachers, Mr.Law who inspired me in the eight grade to really go into high school with all that I have to give.
I am not your negro film.
We then went to go see the I am not your negro film, this film focuses on James Baldwin and his time when his three close friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Junior were assassinated. This film gave us a way of seeing when someone else's story turns in your own.
Drafting/revision process
To me the hardest thing of this project was how I was going to write it. Was it going to be a lot on fiction and a little bit of details from my interviews or the other way around? I decided to go more for the fiction route because it gives the writer freedom to alter the story a little but still keep the personalities/stories from the original people. The revision process is something that over my years at HTHI I have come to love, this is because it gives new fresh eyes on a piece that you have been looking at for hours and your vision may be clear but not on paper, so having the revision process really helped be better my story.
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