Karenna wrote a few notes on Margaret's final Exhibition of the year.
Instead of creating Legacy Projects like the 8th graders, the 7th graders of our class composed ‘Retro’ Exhibitions, in which we revisited previous projects, or exhibitions, and went deeper into the subject.
Margaret chose to base her Retro Exhibition off a story she wrote earlier in the year titled; “How to Save a Dystopia” about two characters transported to the world of ‘Doom’. In the story, they are trying to assemble their classmates, who have also been transported to Doom, in order to escape back to Earth.
She started off by telling us about the genre of her book. She differentiated between Dystopian and Dark Fantasy. Dystopian fiction takes place in a broken world, and Dark Fantasy is a form of creepy fiction that also involves magic and the supernatural. We then read the prologue of her story, and gave constructive criticism, similar to a Writers Workshop.
For the activity we each gave our opinions on what the first chapter should contain, the original first chapter having been turned into the prologue that we read. There were quite a few good ideas, such as showing the school day before the main characters were teleported, and going more into depth with the doors to other universes.
Overall the Exhibition was well coordinated, and I enjoyed all of it.
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