Found Fiction

The assignment starts with students finding an object (a lost article of clothing, a key, an earring, someone’s shopping list), which they will then use to develop a short piece of fiction.  Their goal is to use the author’s tools of characterization, plot structure, sensory imagery and narration to create a compelling piece of fiction centered on their found object.  The piece may explain where the object came from, serve as the basis for a character or provide the backstory to their plot, but whatever they create will come out of the object they find.