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EN216 (CM20) A - Introduction to Creative Writing

What to do if you miss THIS class...

This class is conversational. It involves reading, responding, and engaging in class. Or writing and engaging in class. Therefore, if you miss this class, what I am requiring is that you use the Zoom link in “About this Course” and “Syllabus” to talk to me directly on Thursday. Sign in promptly at 2:30

Each Thursday I will use part of our class time to sit in Zoom and talk to those who missed class (required) and those who just want to ask questions or go over their writing/work (encouraged).

If you miss class, it is still your responsibility to be doing the homework on time, so when you check in on Zoom, we can discuss 1. The homework you did 2. What we talked about in class 3. What’s due the next week 4. What’s most significant about all this.

In this way, you continue to be an active part of the class, discussing, asking questions, having your work looked at and discussed.

If you have questions let me know sooner than later.

Thursday Optional Drop In (Zoom) [If you missed class or want to conference about your work]

Shane Combs is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: English 216
Time: Aug 20, 2020 02:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Schedule

Schedule for T/Th class

Meeting in class each Tuesday

Weeks/Dates

Things to do

Week 1

8/19- 8/20

In class work: Introductions; Discuss class; Read and Respond Guidelines; Fiction Techniques Sheet

Homework: Read and Respond to “Anything Helps” and Excerpt from “Cave Boy and the Sun” (Literary fiction devices)

Prompt 1: Read Techniques sheet

Homework: Write a response to Techniques Sheet. Choose the top 2-3 terms/ideas that 1. You feel might come most naturally to you 2. Might present the most challenge or opportunity for learning (Write a few sentences on each. Have you used them before? Why you think they might come naturally or be a challenge, etc.) The goal is to familiarize yourself with the terms as you do this.

Last day to Add & Drop w/o ‘W’ Aug 21^st

Week 2

8/25-8/27

Literary Fiction (Two Weeks)

In class work: Discuss “Anything Helps” and Excerpt from “Cave Boy and the Sun”

Homework: Read and Respond to “Parachute Silk” and Inscape’s “Fairytales, Romance, and Other Nonsense”

Prompt II: Begin writing 1-2 pages of a potential literary short story

Homework: Within the writing try to use at least 1 idea from the Techniques sheet

Week 3

9/1-9/3

In class work: Discuss “Parachute Silk” and “Fairytales”; Discuss Writing Technique homework

Homework: Read and Respond to Light Boxes, pgs. 1-73

Video: Breakdown of Light Boxes

Homework: Write 1-2 Pages using a Technique from Light Boxes (Metaphor; Personification)

Week 4

9/8-9/10

Fable (Two Weeks)

In class work: Discuss Light Boxes; Discuss Writing homework

Homework: Read and Respond to Light Boxes, pgs. -end and “Dandy Man” (Inscape)

Video: Fiction Guidelines

Homework: Start writing full fiction piece (or continue writing)

Week 5

9/15-9/17

In class work: Discuss Light Boxes and “Dandy Man”; Discuss final fiction pieces; Sign up for conferences

Homework: Finish a draft of a fiction story

Video: N/A

Homework: Peer Review Two Classmates

Week 6

9/22-9/24

In class work: One-On-One Conferences

Homework: Read and Respond to “Elements of Personal Essay” and “Weird, Loud, Smelly World”

Video: N/A

Homework: N/A

Week 7

9/29-10/1

Due: Fiction story and uptake

Personal Essay (One Week)

In class work: Discuss finished fiction pieces; “Elements of the Personal Essay”; “Weird, Loud, Smelly World”

Homework: Read “Attributes of Spiritual Memoir” and Chapter 4 of A Grief Observed

Video: Using Elements of the Personal Essay

Homework: Write 1-2 pages of a personal essay using the “Elements of the Personal Essay” technique sheet

Week 8

10/6-10/8

Spiritual Memoir (One Week)

In class work: Discuss writing homework; “Attributes of Spiritual Memoir” and Chapter 4 of A Grief Observed

Homework: Continue drafting a personal essay or a spiritual memoir

Video: Breakdown “Attributes of Spiritual Memoir”

Homework: Write 1-2 pages of a Spiritual Memoir using prompts from “Attributes of Spiritual Memoir”

Midterm Grades due Tuesday Oct 13^th

Week 9

10/13-10/15

In class work: One-On-One Conferences

Homework: Finish drafting a personal essay or a spiritual memoir

Video: Guidelines for Personal Essay/Spiritual Memoir

Homework: Finish drafting a personal essay or a spiritual memoir

Week 10

10/20-10/22

In class work: No Class/Peer Review Two Classmates by end of class time

Homework: Edit/Revise essay/memoir

Video: Poetry Technique Sheet

Homework: Read and Respond to “Bad Relationship”/“First Poem for You”; “Non-Associative Family”/“Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year”; “How to Draw a Perfect Circle”

Week 11

10/27-10/29

Due: Essay/Memoir and uptake

Poetry (One and a half Weeks)

In class work: Discuss final nonfiction pieces; “Bad Relationship”/“First Poem for You”; “Non-Associative Family”/“Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year”; “How to Draw a Perfect Circle”; 10-Page Play Technique Sheet in “Resources and Materials”

Homework: Read and Respond to “What Work Is”; “Fate” [Inscape]; “Sure Thing”

Video: Poetry Guidelines

Homework: Begin writing a poem based on guidelines

Week 12

11/3-11/5

10-Page Plays (One and a half Weeks)

In class work: Discuss Poem drafts; “What Work Is”; “Fate”; “Sure Thing”

Homework: Read and Respond to “The Divine Fallacy”

Video: 10-Page Play Guidelines

Homework: Begin writing 10-Page Play

Week 13

11/10-11/12

In class work: Discuss Play drafts; Discuss “The Divine Fallacy”

Homework: Continue writing your poems or your 10-Page Play

Video: N/A

Homework: Continue writing your poems or your 10-Page Play

Last day to Drop Courses w/ ‘W’ Nov 13^th

Week 14

11/17-11/19

In class work: One-On-One Conferences

Homework: Finish Poems or 10-Page Play and uptake

Video: N/A

Homework: N/A

Week 15

11/24-11/26

Thanksgiving break

Week 16

12/1-12/3

Due: 2 poems OR 10-page drama and uptake

Tuesday: Optional Conferences (Student Request)

Thursday: Optional Conferences (Student Request)

Due: Final Portfolio with 2 revised pieces (December 8^th)

Final Exams Dec 7-11^th

Grades due by 8 am Monday Dec 14^th