Hybrid Course, Spring 2011

• Introduction to course.
• Begin work with fiction and Fiction Project #1: munch snow. How find/make a story in any event or sequence of events?

Jan. 21 — "We didn't go outside today because it was too shivery, shivery freezy cold. Popcicle brain freezy cold."   —Something a friend's little girl said yesterday morning.

Before Class

1. Read our Homepage carefully.
2. Go into our Bb Discussion Board, find the forum titled, "YOUR PERSONAL CYBER CLASS THREADS," and create your personal thread as instructed in clsss.
3. Also in our Bb Discussion Board, find the forum titled, "WEEKLY CYBER CLASS INSTRUCTIONS." Click on "For Week of Jan. 21st" and then follow the instructions for your first cyber class posting. Each week's work is due by class time on Fri.
4. Be working on Fiction Project #1. (A draft will be due by Mon. Jan. 24th in our Bb "Projects and Hoodoo-Flapdoodle" forum.)

    

Jan. 28 —

Before Class

• By Monday, Jan. 24th, post a draft of Fiction Project #1 in our Bb Discussion Board forum titled, "PROJECTS AND HOODOO-FLAPDOODLE."
• Read about Workshop.
• Check your email and/or the Bb Discussion Board "WORKSHOP" forum for anything your classmates may have submitted for discussion this week. (Be sure to read that material carefully before class.) And feel free to submit something yourself!!!!!!
• Read O'Brien's, "How to Tell a True War Story" and Carver's, "Cathedral."
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: groups complete worksheet on O'Brien and Carver.

In Class

• Class canceled due to illness.

Feb. 11 — "Art is thinking in images."—Aleksander Potebnya

Before Class

• Read Mark Doty, Chap. 1 in The Art of Description.
• View Power Point titled, Fiction Project 1 and Style.
• Complete "Cyber Worksheet on Fiction Project 1 and Style." (This is in the cyber class area of our Bb.)
• Complete Project #1
  

In Class

• Completed version of Fiction Project #1 due. Post in our Discussion Board forum titled, "PROJECTS AND HOODOO-FLAPDOODLE," the "Fiction Projects--Final Versions" thread.
• Close look at Fiction Project #2.
• Reviewing genres.
• Playing with figurative language.
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: full details will always be in Bb
• Cyber Class check this week!

March 10: Extra Credit Event:

"Commemorating the Verbal-Visual Art of David Martinson."
7:00 pm, March 10th
The Spirit Room, 111 Broadway, Fargo

March 11 —

Before Class

• Read all of Longenbach.
• Review Doty.

In Class

• All of class this week will be electronic. See email for very important instructions.
• Cyber Class check over break!

March 18—SPRING BREAK

March 21— Northern Eclecta deadline. www.NorthernE.com

March 25—

Before Class

• Read/review all of Longenbach and Doty texts. (We won't get to these right away, but please be reading them.)
• Check Grade Center for new scores late in the break. NOTE: the Grade Center may not be working properly as of 3/24. We'll discuss in class.
• Read poems of Tony Hoagland.

In Class

• Catch up and review.
• Preview Chapbook assignment.
• Begin work with poetry: Hoagland.
• Toast.
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: workshop classmate materials over break. Full details will always be in Bb

April 1 —

Before Class

• Read online for your cyberwork this week as well as completion of Poetry Project #1:
  • Bishop
  • Ponge
  • Simic
• Work on Poetry Project #1.

In Class

• Completed version of Fiction Project #2 due. Post in our Discussion Board forum titled, "PROJECTS AND HOODOO-FLAPDOODLE."
• Introduction to Poetry Project #2. Discuss surrealism: working again on toast and a different approach to things. Metaphor.
• Intensive workshopping.
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: work intensively on Poetry Project #1 and your independent material. Full details will always be in Bb.

April 8 —

Before Class

• Finish Poetry Project #1.
• Look at Form and Poetry and be sure to read the poems at all links on this site.
• View Power Point presentation, A Crash Course in FORM AND POETRY .
• AGAIN review Doty and Longenbach.
• Read Bidart.
• Read surrealist samples.

In Class

• Completed version of Poetry Project #1 due. Post in our Discussion Board forum titled, "PROJECTS AND HOODOO-FLAPDOODLE." Form and poetry. Longenbach.
• Work with Bidart and the persona poem.
• Intensive workshopping.
• Sign up for visual/spoken word presentations?
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: meet with small group to critique Evan, Jessica, and Kirby. See Bb for full instructions.

April 15—

Before Class

• Read all of Kalman.
• Work on Poetry Project #2.
• Work on toaster surrealist poem.

In Class

• Surrealist toaster poem samples?
• Longenbach and the line in poetry.
• Bidart and the persona poem.
• Introduce Poetry Project #3 and Kalman.
• Large-group wrap-up of small-group workshopping.
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: meet physically in groups again to workshop Mi-young, Jenny, and Inessa. Full details will always be in Bb.

April 22 —Holiday Recess

CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: explore Writer's Link and writer's resources and write up report. Work on Poetry Project #2 and begin Poetry Project #3, reading the assignment carefully. Question sheet for Kalman's Principles of Uncertainty. Possible individiual workshopping. View web pages and Power Point presentations on the oral and visual traditions in poetry. Full details will always be in Bb.

April 29—

Before Class

• Complete Poetry Project #2.
  

In Class

• Finished version of Poetry Project #2 due.
• Go over Poetry Project #3.
• Discuss portfolios.
• Intensive workshopping.
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: full details will always be in Bb.

May 6 — WE WILL GO FROM 2-6:30 PM. If you can't stay this long, that will be ok. But I hope you can for at least a bit. We'll have pizza :)

In Class

• Intensive workshopping.
• CYBER CLASS ASSIGNMENT: full details will always be in Bb.

Finals Week, Friday, May 13 —

• Meet in SE 314 from 8:00 am to 10:00 am for oral and visual presentations. (See assignment for Poetry Project #3.)
• Course wrap-up and evaluations.

Chapbooks, Portfolios, and cyberwork due no later than 11:59 pm, Friday, May 13th. No late work accepted without documented evidence of serious hardship.

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