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Week 1 -- Assignment 1: So You Think You Are A Writer?
 | Fill out information sheet. Do exercise one |
| Introductions. HW: Write characterization in 3rd person introducing yourself. |
| Review prospectus. Read intros. |
| F: Use this day to take care of writing business. HW: Find a ordinary household item, describe it without using its name in at least ten sentence – do not use adverbs or adjectives. |
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Week 2 -- Read Assignment 2: Discipline and You
Monday: Language , the medium.
Language lecture
Tuesday: Computer Lab (CL) Check
grades.
Wednesday:
Language Activity
Thursday: CL, type reading journal Do exercise two
Friday: Writing day. Use this day to take care of writing
business.
Week 3 -- Assignment 3: The Writer's Domain
(10/3-7) | M: Review elements of poetry |
| T: CL. Read poems by Whitman and Dickinson, discuss |
| Do exercise three |
| W: Discuss practicing poetry. Exercise due. |
| R: CL Problems with poetry--sound versus sense. |
| Share found poem. HW: Read poem posted on web. |
| Friday: Writing day. Use this day to take care of writing business. |
| M: Traditional versus verse' libre' |
| T: CL. Read and listen to poems found at http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/ poetry/antholog/aaindx.htm |
| Write a sound poem and bring to class Write a sonnet or a villanelle...use your handout to help |
| W: Explicate poem. HW: Write a poem from the perspective of one of the characters due on Monday. |
| T: CL. Begin Fiction. Read Elements of Fiction and respond to the following stories. HW: Write a poem about friends. |
| Friday: Writing day. Use this day to take care of writing
business.
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Week 5 -- Assignment 5: Telling a Story - Simple?
| Do exercise five |
| Read Elements of Fiction |
Week 6 -- Assignment 6: Friend or Foe?
| Working with point-of-view and dialogue |
| Do exercise six -- post to DB |
| Send three poems to jan@js.spokane.wa.us by |
| Begin reading and critiquing poems |
| Read How to Give Feedback and How to Respond to Feedback
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Week 7 -- Drama: Audience? Who Needs It?
| Complete exercise 7 |
| Bring story for workshop |
| Read the elements of drama
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Week 8 -- Say What? Creative Nonfiction?
| Read Mike Holmes' piece, "An Unattended Death" |
| Complete exercise 8 |
| Finish critiquing poems, begin critiquing stories |
| One act play due for workshop
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Week 9, 10,11, 12 -- Workshop
| Critique stories |
| Critique plays |
| Creative nonfiction due for workshop vb |
| Portfolio due. |