Me how do you use listing and itemizing to develop a short story? a. form a group with classmates. write a sentence in which you tell something about yourself. pass the paper around until each person has added at least one new sentence connected to the previous ones. read the sentences aloud. b. draw and label a map of a place that is meaningful to you. study the map. choose special incidents you associate with each area. c. write down choices about who your main character might be. circle the most interesting choice. then create other ideas about the circled item, and review for the elements you need. if you do not find these elements, repeat the process. d. grab a pen, and start writing about special times in your life. focus on getting down as many ideas as you can. after five minutes, read what you’ve written.

if this is a question from yourself(like not from a test) you could honestly do any of these. You could also do them all together and make something detailed.

What i personally do is write down different ideas for about 9-20 minutes. Find about five that i like and then start on the character. Then i figure out what type of story i want to write using that character. Then figure out the background and the plot. since it is a short story the plot is usly something really simple. But you may want to end up making more short story with it so it is really up to you.  

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)