All Classes (I posted this on Go Studio, as well)

Required Course Materials:

Required Text(s):

LA 496/05

EKPHRASIS:

Text Title	ISBN#	Publisher’s Price
Text # 1 Poets on Painters	0520069714	31.95
Text #2 Art and Artists: Poems	0307959384	13.50

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LA 424/01

ADV. CREATIVE WRITING

Text # 1 The Making of a Poem	0393321789	12.89
Text #2 Making Shapely Fiction	039332124X	15.95

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LA 496/02

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Text # 1 The Heath Anthology of American Literature Contemporary Period

054720180X

18.50

Recommended Text(s): Various.

Schedule of Classes (including key events including assignments, projects due dates/exam dates): See below

Methods/weights of Evaluation (this is a list of items that will be used as the basis for calculating students’ grades in the course, i.e., projects 30%, tests & quizzes, 30%, class participation 10%):

Course Grading Policies (this is a list of policies regarding due dates, late submissions, standards and expectation regarding work, etc.):

CCAD Academic Policies:
DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES (see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)	ADA STATEMENT If you have a documented cognitive, physical, or psychological disability, which includes learning disabilities (LD), attention deficit disorder (ADD), depression, anxiety, or mobility, as described by Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is recommended that you contact Disability Services at 614-222-3292. They will assist you in arranging appropriate accommodations with the instructor.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY	(see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)
ATTENDANCE POLICY	Students are required to attend all classes on their schedule. (see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)
REQUESTING AN INCOMPLETE	(see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)
STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT	The college expects students to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the high ideals and standards that CCAD has set for its community and its students. (see the Student Handbook for complete policy) PLEASE NOTE: YOUR UPDATED DAILY SCHEDULE AND ANY ADDITIONAL CHANGES WILL BE LOCATED HERE. ADDITIONALLY, ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE IN CLASS AND THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MISSED BY A STUDENT ARE THE STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO LOCATE. MANY THINGS ARE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS AND IT IS VERY HARD TO GET COMPLETELY CAUGHT UP WITH EVERYTHING MISSED AND IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR COMMITTING TO REGULAR ATTENDANCE.

Advanced Creative Writing

Group One: Remember your pieces with twenty-one copies. We'll go over workshop etiquette before class but for those being workshopped, there's no talking nor explaining during the workshop, so be sure that if you have special instructions for us, or things that you need for us to keep in mind while reading your piece, that those things are written in what you distribute to us. Also, if you are giving us additional pages (ex: I am giving you the whole forty pages of my project, but I would like for this workshop to focus on the first twenty,) make note of that, too.

For Tuesday, please have read this story:  http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/huntsnow.html

as well as this poem:  http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/may-1968/  and have a letter*(200 words) for each author plus comments for class. We will "workshop" these imaginary folks as if they were with us, so be prepared.

*Your letter might begin something like:
Dear Mr. Hemingway: I really enjoyed your story. It was well-crafted and very clear overall. I found that there were moment where I was less certain of where I was as a reader, temporally, than others. Page seven, the scene with the rainbow trout, was an example. Did this happen before or after the ice cream social? And is there a significant distinction between Dot and Rosemary?  I sometimes struggled with conflating them. Perhaps, Rosemary might be a little older, or perhaps the characters are not both needed? I loved the sentence about the mountain lion and the sycamore. Great simile. Also, your spare but throughful use of metaphorical devise is noted. Although the sentence on page twenty-one that reads "The waiter poured on into the glass so that the brandy slopped over and ran down the stem into the top saucer of the pile seemed somehow less graceful, your story is, overall a well-made thing. --Sophia Kartsonis (sign your note so that people know where to go for clarification or with further questions.

Finally, I liked this week's prompt over at Poets and Writers magazine, so I present it to you. If it helps you to move a story along or to start something new, feel free to use it:

If I Hadn't  

Think about a choice you or your character made in life that led to specific consequences or outcomes. Explore the alternative reality that could have been if you'd made a different choice in an essay that begins If I hadn't...  (If only s/he hadn't, If only you hadn't, If only Throckmorton hadn't, etc.)  

MANDATORY ATTENDANCE, Sharon Olds Reading February 28

This is important for all of our classes. Please make arrangements to be there. More on Olds in your respective classes. There will be reading assignments from her work for each class.

http://www.ccad.edu/events-2013/va-olds

ADVANCED CREATIVE WRITING A little late, but...

Your assignment for Thursday/tomorrow as stated in class was to produce one-two pages of a project description or what you hoped to gain from the course. Feel free to discuss influences, such as authors, books or methods that you might wish to employ. If you have an ongoing project, give a sense of how far you'd like to advance the piece in our class. If you've yet to begin something, talk about the kinds of things that you'd like to be working on or thinking about in preparation for that project.

Required Course Materials:

Required Text(s): 

 LA 496/05

EKPHRASIS:  

Text Title	ISBN#	Publisher’s Price
Text # 1  Poets on Painters	0520069714	31.95
Text #2  Art and Artists: Poems	0307959384	13.50

  

-------------------------------

LA 424/01

ADV. CREATIVE WRITING

Text # 1  The Making of a Poem	0393321789	12.89
Text #2  Making Shapely Fiction	039332124X	15.95

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LA 496/02 

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Text # 1   The Heath Anthology of American Literature Contemporary Period

054720180X

18.50

Recommended Text(s): Various.

Schedule of Classes (including key events including assignments, projects due dates/exam dates): See below

Methods/weights of Evaluation (this is a list of items that will be used as the basis for calculating students’ grades in the course, i.e., projects 30%, tests & quizzes, 30%, class participation 10%):

Course Grading Policies (this is a list of policies regarding due dates, late submissions, standards and expectation regarding work, etc.):

CCAD Academic Policies:
DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES (see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)	ADA STATEMENT If you have a documented cognitive, physical, or psychological disability, which includes learning disabilities (LD), attention deficit disorder (ADD), depression, anxiety, or mobility, as described by Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is recommended that you contact Disability Services at 614-222-3292. They will assist you in arranging appropriate accommodations with the instructor.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY	(see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)
ATTENDANCE POLICY	Students are required to attend all classes on their schedule. (see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)
REQUESTING AN INCOMPLETE	(see the Student Handbook for complete policy information)
STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT	The college expects students to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the high ideals and standards that CCAD has set for its community and its students. (see the Student Handbook for complete policy)

All Classes, Personal Favor, Pretty Please

I volunteer at Cozy Cat Cottage. Despite the precious name, it is pretty hardcore on the rescue front and the campaign to spay and neuter every cat that comes through its doors.   It has placed over 6000 homeless or rescued cats into homes, including the one in the story that I wrote for them for the "Heartwarming stories" portion of the contest for the annual, international Shelter Challenge by Petfinder.   Hundreds of stories get submitted and the one that represents Tiger Lily and Cozy Cat: "One Fierce Flower," was fortunate enough to make the top ten.  Sadly, only the top two stories will win any funds for their shelters and CCC, having recently expanded their space in order to house a low-cost spay/neuter clinic and a surgery room, is in real need of funds.

If you would be so kind as to make a little daily routine of voting for One Fierce Flower from now until December 16th, once a day from any computers you encounter and/or your cell phone, you would be helping us out immensely.

http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/contest.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_contest_from_shelterchallenge

American Lit. Final Days Schedule

Remember to have read or rather, re-read:  Sonny's Blues and White Angel by James Baldwin and Michael Cunningham, respectively. And don't forget the Lobster essay in your Touchstone anthologies. Anyone forgetting his/her book or not able to participate, will indicate that the reading has not been completed and will receive a zero for the day.

Let's give your new student teaching group something with which to work during their discussion. When it's your turn to present, you'll appreciate the effort, I promise.


Remaining groups to present on Wednesday, which is also our final day of class.  :-( 

See you soon.