Read Fiction Packet 3 (myemich) and come prepared to present/discuss 2-3 stories
Read Lamott, Bird By Bird pgs 95-150
Fiction Portfolio Due (assignment sheet on myemich)
Blog Response on Fiction Packet 3 and/or Lamott
Writing:
Identify a specific early childhood memory. Write down everything you can remember about it. You may choose to do this from your current perspective or from the perspective you had at that age. Take the writing of this memory and turn it into a story in either 1st or 3rd person, past or present tense. Include character, place/space, situation/conflict, and some sort of ending/resolution.
Last week's writing assignment: choose a sentence from a Wreckage of Reason story and use this to begin writing your own story.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
For next week 3/22
Follow syllabus for Wreckage of Reason reading assignment.
Turn in Midterm Evaluation Responses, hard copy, without your name unless you want to include your name; available on myemich.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29; assignment sheet on myemich.
The final publishing project assignment is posted on myemich. I will bring in samples next week, but start thinking about what you want to do.
Blog response on new reading from Wreckage; write about 2-3 stories.
Writing; Choose one of the following:
a. Write a description of a rural landscape, a city street, or a room. Use only active verbs to describe inanimate as well as animate tings. Use concrete and sensory details to make the description come alive.
b. Write about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation boring and that your characters are bored or boring or both. Fascinate the reader with your description of this boring situation. Use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or judgments. Be specific and concrete.
c. Write about one of the following and “Show” the rhythm and functioning of the subject through the language and structure of the prose: a machine of some kind, a vehicle, a piece of music, something that goes in a circle, an avalanche…something else along these lines?
Use the results from the above exercise(s) to construct a story. Include one or more characters in a place having some sort of situation. The story can be long or short. It can be in parts or include some kind of form or structure that is not linear. Etc. Type this up.
Turn in Midterm Evaluation Responses, hard copy, without your name unless you want to include your name; available on myemich.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29; assignment sheet on myemich.
The final publishing project assignment is posted on myemich. I will bring in samples next week, but start thinking about what you want to do.
Blog response on new reading from Wreckage; write about 2-3 stories.
Writing; Choose one of the following:
a. Write a description of a rural landscape, a city street, or a room. Use only active verbs to describe inanimate as well as animate tings. Use concrete and sensory details to make the description come alive.
b. Write about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation boring and that your characters are bored or boring or both. Fascinate the reader with your description of this boring situation. Use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or judgments. Be specific and concrete.
c. Write about one of the following and “Show” the rhythm and functioning of the subject through the language and structure of the prose: a machine of some kind, a vehicle, a piece of music, something that goes in a circle, an avalanche…something else along these lines?
Use the results from the above exercise(s) to construct a story. Include one or more characters in a place having some sort of situation. The story can be long or short. It can be in parts or include some kind of form or structure that is not linear. Etc. Type this up.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Next Week Bathhouse Events and Assignments
Steiner visit and Bathhouse events: http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=986
For Class on Thur: Read Bird by Bird p33-95 and come prepared for in class writing on the text and discussion.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29
For Class on Thur: Read Bird by Bird p33-95 and come prepared for in class writing on the text and discussion.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
For This Week
Read from Wreckage of Reason: Foos, Reeves, Lillis, Treat, Jackson, Natov, Mazza, DeLuca and come prepared to discuss the stories.
Fiction: bring 1-2 stories of your own to share and workshop, written from the exercises we've done in class.
Blog: You should be writing about some of the stories in Wreckage of Reason this week.
Fiction: bring 1-2 stories of your own to share and workshop, written from the exercises we've done in class.
Blog: You should be writing about some of the stories in Wreckage of Reason this week.
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