Thursday, September 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
General notes:
Reading list for fiction workshop coming soon.
Complete syllabus for literature, too.
Please be sure to be on time with all writing and reading assignments as it gets very confusing to collect in class and over email. In the future, I really will accept no late assignments, so again, be mindful and if you're confused about when something is due or what to do, ask me.
skartsonis@ccad.edu or in class.
Complete syllabus for literature, too.
Please be sure to be on time with all writing and reading assignments as it gets very confusing to collect in class and over email. In the future, I really will accept no late assignments, so again, be mindful and if you're confused about when something is due or what to do, ask me.
skartsonis@ccad.edu or in class.
Week of September 7-11 Literature Class
09/08 Discussion of Hemingway and dialogue. What is a white elephant? Why that title, etc.
Homework: Read "A Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf.
& "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison.
09/10 Discussion of Woolf and/or Ellison. What is the conflict in these stories? How does it compare with what we have already read?
Homework: Read "A Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf.
& "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison.
09/10 Discussion of Woolf and/or Ellison. What is the conflict in these stories? How does it compare with what we have already read?
Week of September 7-11 WRITING FICTION
09/08 (T &H class)
09/09 (M & W)
Discussion of stories we read and distribution of "Strange People" for reading tonight.
We will begin workshopping a week from Thursday/Friday so Group One will have stories due, with copies by Thursday/Friday (09/15, 09/16) of next week. Group Two on Thursday/Friday. Group Three on the Tues/Thur of the following week, and so on.
The second class of this week will involve "workshopping" the story I hand out today in class. I will post guidelines for workshopping and you will treat this story (letter to author and all,) as if it is a workshop piece. We will have on "field trip activity" for the Thursday class (the John Cage event) and that might affect our schedule in the T-H class, I'll let you know how exactly.)
09/10 09/11
Workshop of "Strange People". Bring in annotated copies, letter to author and be prepared to discuss the story as if the author were a class member and in attendance. You will begin class by swapping your letters and discussing them as a group and voting on the "most helpful letter" and talking about why. Then we'll move into workshop.
09/09 (M & W)
Discussion of stories we read and distribution of "Strange People" for reading tonight.
We will begin workshopping a week from Thursday/Friday so Group One will have stories due, with copies by Thursday/Friday (09/15, 09/16) of next week. Group Two on Thursday/Friday. Group Three on the Tues/Thur of the following week, and so on.
The second class of this week will involve "workshopping" the story I hand out today in class. I will post guidelines for workshopping and you will treat this story (letter to author and all,) as if it is a workshop piece. We will have on "field trip activity" for the Thursday class (the John Cage event) and that might affect our schedule in the T-H class, I'll let you know how exactly.)
09/10 09/11
Workshop of "Strange People". Bring in annotated copies, letter to author and be prepared to discuss the story as if the author were a class member and in attendance. You will begin class by swapping your letters and discussing them as a group and voting on the "most helpful letter" and talking about why. Then we'll move into workshop.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Fiction Workshop In-Class Assignment plus Weekend Reading Homework
Ten Minute Spill
Write a ten passage piece. The story must include a proverb, adage, or familiar phrase such as: "she's a brick house, between the devil and the deep blue sea, one foot in the grave, at stitch in time saves nine, don't count your chickens before they hatch, the whole nine yard, a needle in a haystack, etc.) You must change the phrase in some way. You must also use five of the following words in your piece:
cliff needle voice whir blackberry cloud mother lick
The reading assignment for the weekend is:
How to Become a Writer by Lorrie Moore
http://www.ninetymeetingsinninetydays.com/lorriemooore.html
The Last Unseen Window in the Last Unseen Car by Bruce Holland Rogers
http://www.taraxa.no/show_text.php?text_no=5&lang=NO
Come to class prepared to thoroughly discuss both. Bring in comments, observations etc.
I would like each of you to be prepared to answer the questions:
which point-of-view are each of these written from? and which verb tense?
Consider how effective these choices were in illuminating the stories and be willing to discuss why they did or did not work for you.
For the T-H class, we will discuss this Tuesday.
For the W-F: Wednesday
Write a ten passage piece. The story must include a proverb, adage, or familiar phrase such as: "she's a brick house, between the devil and the deep blue sea, one foot in the grave, at stitch in time saves nine, don't count your chickens before they hatch, the whole nine yard, a needle in a haystack, etc.) You must change the phrase in some way. You must also use five of the following words in your piece:
cliff needle voice whir blackberry cloud mother lick
The reading assignment for the weekend is:
How to Become a Writer by Lorrie Moore
http://www.ninetymeetingsinninetydays.com/lorriemooore.html
The Last Unseen Window in the Last Unseen Car by Bruce Holland Rogers
http://www.taraxa.no/show_text.php?text_no=5&lang=NO
Come to class prepared to thoroughly discuss both. Bring in comments, observations etc.
I would like each of you to be prepared to answer the questions:
which point-of-view are each of these written from? and which verb tense?
Consider how effective these choices were in illuminating the stories and be willing to discuss why they did or did not work for you.
For the T-H class, we will discuss this Tuesday.
For the W-F: Wednesday
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Optional creative writing assignment
(200 Words each)
1. Write about something repugnant as if it were beautiful.
2. Write about something beautiful as if it were ugly or disgusting.
1. Write about something repugnant as if it were beautiful.
2. Write about something beautiful as if it were ugly or disgusting.
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