Creative Writing II Schedule, Summer Online, 2010
Below are reading or other assignments due for each week, as well as tentative activities planned. Because this schedule is very flexible and subject to change, and because it's a workshop course, it's vital that you check for updates regularly and keep up with current announcements. Be sure as well to check your email frequently.
Week 1, June 14-18
- Introduction to course. Read our Homepage and browse around our Blackboard to thoroughly familiarize yourself with its contents.
- Browse around Skittish Libations.
- Post a self-introduction to Blackboard. Include brief discussion of your favorite quotation from Skittish Libations.
- View Power Point titled, Introduction to Course and Warm-Up, and then complete Warm-Up Exercise, located in Blackboard Daily Assignments.
- Post finished Warm-Up Exercise in our Blackboard Drop Box.
- Read through the Fiction Project assignment.
Week 2, June 21-25
- Read Carver's, "Cathedral."
- Read O'Brien's, "How to Tell a True War Story."
- Read through Style to get a sense of how different writer prose styles can be.
- View Power Point titled, Fiction.
- Check your email and/or our Blackboard Virtual Workshop for anything your classmates may have submitted for discussion this week. Using the workshop form, offer some feedback on their work and post it to the Blackboard Virtual Workshop. And feel free to submit something yourself!!!!!! You should always be working on your own independent stuff.
Week 3, June 28-July 2
- Read Oates's story, "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
- Read flash fiction samples (pay attention especially to those with an * by their name).
- View Power Point, More About Fiction.
- Complete fiction exercise sheet, located in Blackboard Daily Assignments.
- Check your email and/or the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for anything your classmates may have submitted for discussion this week. Using the workshop form, offer some feedback on their work and post it to the Blackboard Virtual Workshop. And feel free to submit something yourself!!!!! You should always be working on your own independent stuff.
Week 4, July 5-9
- Fiction draft due. Post a copy in our Blackboard Drop-Box. Your draft should be at least three pages, but the more you have done, the more feedback we can give you.
- Critique your classmates' fiction drafts. The critique form is on the Fiction Project assignment page. Post your completed critique in the Draft Drop-Box area.
- Read through critiques of your own draft, and continue to work on your story.
- As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.
Week 5, July 12-16
- Fiction Project, final version, due in Blackboard Drop Box.
- View Power Point titled, Poetry.
- Complete "The Luminous Object," exercise, assigned in the Poetry Power Point.
- Post your finished Luminous Object exercise to our Blackboard Drop Box.
- Read Bishop poems.
- Read Merwin poems.
- Read Edson poems.
- Read Simic poems.
- As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.
Week 6, July 19-23
- Read Hoagland poems.
- Read Bidart poems.
- Read Wright poems (especially "To a Blossoming Pear Tree," "Northern Pike," "A Blessing," "On the Skeleton of a Hound," "A Poem about George Doty in the Death House," and "At the Executed Murder's House." )
- Complete exercise sheet on readings, locaded in our Blackboard Daily Assignments.
- Post your finished exercise sheet to our Drop Box.
- Complete Poetry Project #1, and post to our Drop Box.
- As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.
Week 7, July 26-30
Week 8, Aug. 2-6
- View two Power Points, Spoken Word Poetry and New Media Literature.
- Compete Poetry Project #3 and post to our Drop Box.
- As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.
- Remember that you need to submit at least one Workshop piece before the semester is finished.
Aug. 9
- Chapbook due by midnight, instructions TBA.
- Portfolio due by midnight, instructions TBA.
- Exceptions to these due-dates are possible only with documented evidence of serious hardship or illness.
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