Make a map of some place you have worked. Who are the principle characters, what is the set-up, what events or stories can you list. Draw it out on paper so you can see it. The more detailed, the more it will assist your memory. Then write a paragraph describing an event from work in monosyllables (nothing over one syllable) from the perspective of an old hand, someone whos burned out and seen it all. Then write the same paragraph over again in an elaborate way, from the perspective of someone fresh and vibrant and naive. Perhaps the sentences are longer, more loaded with adjectives. Once you are done brainstorming/drawing, write a Monologue to a New Employee, a long (40-50-ish line) poem from the perspective of an insider speaking unguardedly to a new employee. Imagine orientation has just ended and now this character will begin the informal and very revealing, stone-upturning, oath-breaking orientation in poetic form. By the end of the monologue poem, we should get a sense of both the speaker and the new employee and the language of that speakers world. You will be graded only on the monologue.

Make a map of some place you have worked. Who are the principle characters, what is the set-up, what events or stories can you list. Draw it out on paper so you can see it. The more detailed, the more it will assist your memory. Then write a paragraph describing an event from work in monosyllables (nothing over one syllable) from the perspective of an old hand, someone whos burned out and seen it all. Then write the same paragraph over again in an elaborate way, from the perspective of someone fresh and vibrant and naive. Perhaps the sentences are longer, more loaded with adjectives. Once you are done brainstorming/drawing, write a Monologue to a New Employee, a long (40-50-ish line) poem from the perspective of an insider speaking unguardedly to a new employee. Imagine orientation has just ended and now this character will begin the informal and very revealing, stone-upturning, oath-breaking orientation in poetic form. By the end of the monologue poem, we should get a sense of both the speaker and the new employee and the language of that speakers world. You will be graded only on the monologue.