ࡱ> '` tbjbj$$ 2FFl++++l+d=^,H.H.H.H._/_/_/ = = = = = = =$?hA0=5_/_/550=H.H.E=i9i9i95H.H. =i95 =i9i9<t<H.R, j>+7<< [=0=<B_9B<<<B<(_/]1li92$3_/_/_/0=0=_9 _/_/_/=5555"++ COURSE CALENDAR: ENGLISH 71 Section 80 Prof. Alan Soldofsky Fall 2010 Poetry, non-fiction, and fiction assignments are to be drafted and handed in to the instructor by announced deadlines. NOTEBOOK assignments should be completed on a weekly basis. You will be sent postings and web links that will be included in your reading assignment. Weeks will be identified on the calendar by Mondays. AUG. 26 LIVE CLASSROOM MEETING AUGUST 26, 4 6 p.m., IS 134: Introductions and orientation. Motives for creative writing: Who do you write for? Writing about your identity. Defeating the inner censor. Writing with detail. Defining poetry: the ways a poem differs from prose. We will divide into small writing groups. Strongly recommended that you attend. PRE-COURSE WRITING DIAGNOSTIC: Write a poem or 250-500 word prose piece titled Self-Portrait, modeled on Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski. This is a diagnostic writing sample, and will not count toward your final grade. However, you will receive an incomplete in the course unless you complete this assignment. Submit the writing sample as an attached Word file by clicking on the Pre Diagnostic link under the Final Portfolio icon on the ENGL 71 Desire2Learn homepage. Complete the Pre-Course Writing Diagnostic assignment by Sept. 3. READING ASSIGNED: Creative Writing Guide (abbreviated CWG) Chpts. 1, 2 & 3. Adrienne Rich Ghazals, (158 159). Bird by Bird (abbreviated BBB): Getting Started (3 - 15), Writing Groups (151 - 161). Poetry: Introduction (1 18). Click on the following web site for basic tips on writing poetry (bookmark this site and use it during the remainder of the poetry unit):  HYPERLINK "http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/Poetry/tips.htm" http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/Poetry/tips.htm WRITING ASSIGNED: Poetry Assignment # 1Ghazal: (Post your draft on your small groups discussion board by Aug. 30). Write a poem in the form of a Ghazal (see pre-writing activities). The poem must be at least 12 lines long, and not longer than 30 lines. (See the file labeled Ghazal on Desire2Learn.) Complete your personal profile and post it on Desire2Learn using the tool for student homepages. WRITING GROUPS: Post responses and revision suggestions as a threaded message in the Desire2Learn Forum to other members of your writing group using the Writing Group tool for your small group. ONLINE WORKSHOP FORUM: Group 1 to post Ghazals (by Sept. 1 for all class members to read and discuss on the class Workshop Forum. In preparation for posting comments on the Ghazal poems, click on and read  HYPERLINK "http://www.du.edu/~mtursi/revising_poetry.html" http://www.du.edu/~mtursi/revising_poetry.html. Important: Follow the criteria in the Discussion Guide posted for the Ghazal poem assignment to generate your critical response. JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: In CWG Writing for Ideas and Practice (WIP) 1-1, Answer questions number 5, 6, and 9. Describe in your journal/notebook using specific details and concrete language the following things: the place where you write (or the place you would like to write); why it is better for you to write in solitude or to write in a place where there are other people around; the routine you will establish for yourself over the semester to complete the writing and reading required in this class. If you can, take a photograph of the place where you write and post it on your home page for the class. EXTRA CREDIT: Read Frank OHaras  HYPERLINK "http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-for-the-fortune-cookies/" Lines for the Fortune Cookies. Write at least 10 fortune cookie lines in your notebook for practice. Write a poem composed of 10 clever or ironic lines you could imagine fitting inside fortune cookies, imitating Frank OHaras Lines for the Fortune Cookies. Post your fortune cookie poem on your small group discussion board. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself: Week 1 on Desire2Learn. (WEEK OF) AUG. 30 READING ASSIGNED: CWG: Chpts 4. BBB: Short Assignments, Shitty First Drafts, and Perfectionism (16 32). Poetry: Introduction (18 29). WRITING ASSIGNED: Poetry AssignmentImage Poem #2: (Post to Small Group Forum by Sept. 7. If you can, also post the photograph or picture of the object your poem is based on.) Write a poem consisting of images that construct a representation of your sense of yourselfeither objective or subjective. (Open the file labeled Image Poem Worksheet on D2L found in the Week 2 folder under poetry.) Base the poem on an old photograph or an object (such as a car, an article of clothing, pair of shoes, or something in your home). Your image poem must use at least one metaphor or simile. Select a poem from Poetry: A Pocket Anthology or The Creative Writing Guide on which you model your poem (in terms of voice, style, line, or form). List the title, author, and page number of the poem you modeled yours on when you turn it in. WRITING GROUPS: Post responses and revision suggestions as a threaded message to other members of your group using the Discussions Link in Desire2Learn (D2L) for your small group. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 1 to post Ghazals for class members to read and discuss (by Sept. 1). Follow the criteria in the Discussion Guide posted for Week 1 to generate your critical response. JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: Write responses to the following exercises: CWG WIP 4-3, # 2; 4-4, #1, 2; 4-5, #1, 3; 4-6, #1. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself: Week 2 on D2L. SEPT. 6: Monday, Sept. 6: CAMPUS CLOSED: LABOR DAY HOLIDAY OBSERVED. READING ASSIGNED: CWG Chpt. 5. BBB School Lunches; Polaroids; Character (33 53); Poetry: Introduction (24 28); poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (202 205). Click on the following link to read narrative poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson:  HYPERLINK "http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robinson/" http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robinson/ Click on the following link to read about irony in poems and follow the links contained on the page:  HYPERLINK "http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/irony_def.html" http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/irony_def.html. Click on the following link to learn ways to revise and improve your poems:  HYPERLINK "http://www.du.edu/~mtursi/revising_poetry.html" http://www.du.edu/~mtursi/revising_poetry.html. WRITING ASSIGNED: Poetry Assignment #3: (Post to Small Group Forum by Sept. 13). Write a narrative poem (from the point of view of a persona or character, who is not you). Open the file labeled Narrative Poem worksheet on D2L under Week 3 under poetry. Select a poem from Poetry: A Pocket Anthology or The Creative Writing Guide on which you model your poem (in terms of voice, style, line, or form). List the title, author, and page number of the work on which you modeled to your poem. WRITING GROUPS: Post responses and revision suggestions to image poems. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 2to post their poems for all class members to discuss (by Sept. 9). In preparation for posting comments on the Ghazal poems, click on and read  HYPERLINK "http://www.du.edu/~mtursi/revising_poetry.html" http://www.du.edu/~mtursi/revising_poetry.html. JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG: Writing to Warm Up # 4; WIP 5-2, # 3. Make a list of five strange sounding or ugly sounding wordsrecall Galway Kinnells poem Blackberry Eating (CWG 68). Write prose paraphrases of Eros Turannos and Richard Corey, A Pocket Anthology 203 204 & 205). Copy two poems into your journal/notebook from A Pocket Anthology that you find that contain a number of strange sounding words. Draft a poem (you dont have to finish or turn the poem in) that includes the names of foods. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself: Week 3 on D2L. SEPT. 13: READING ASSIGNED: CWG: Chpt. 6. BBB: Plot (54 63). A Pocket Anthology: Introduction (29 38). Click on the following link to learn more about using allusion in poetry:  HYPERLINK "http://www.milforded.org/schools/foran/rscaramella/allusions/" http://www.milforded.org/schools/foran/rscaramella/allusions/ Click on the following web site to learn more about writing poetry for the ear:  HYPERLINK "http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/Poetry/ear.htm" http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/Poetry/ear.htm WRITING ASSIGNED: Poetry Assignment #4Poem Containing an Allusion: (Post to Small Group Forum by Sept. 20. Include any information about the subject being alluded to as a footnote to the poem.) Write a poem containing an allusion. The allusion may be to: a Classical or Biblical myth, another poem or poet, a work of fiction, a literary character or author, a film, a work of visual art or an artist, a musical work, group, or musician; or a historical event or person, or person in pop-culture. (Open the file labeled Allusion Poem Assignment worksheet on D2L under Week 4 under Poetry.) In addition, do research on the Internet about the subject your poem alludes to. Include the research in the form of notes or links to web pages which you will attach to your poem. Your poem should also be written in fixed stanza form (select any stanza form of your choice) and must be written rhymed or unrhymed iambic pentameter. WRITING GROUPS: Post responses and revision suggestions to the narrative/persona poems. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 3 to post their poems to the whole class for discuss (by Sept. 16). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG WIP 6-1, # 2 (also scan these lines for rhythm) scan the first stanza or first four lines of a poem you choose from The Pocket Anthology. Write your own parody of William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say, (CWG 142-143). TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 4 on D2L. SEPT. 20: READING ASSIGNED: CWG: Chpt. 7 and Sestina from the Home Gardener (160 161). BBB: Looking Around; The Moral Point of View (97 109). Poetry: Introduction (38 44). WRITING ASSIGNED: Poetry Assignment #5Poem in a Traditional Form: (Post to Small Group Forum by Sept. 27). Write a poem in closed (patterned) verse-form. (Open the file for the closed-form assignment sheets under Week 5 under Poetry for the form in which you want to write your poem.) Select a poem from Poetry: A Pocket Anthology or The Creative Writing Guide on which you model your poem (in terms of voice, style, line, or form). List the title, author, and page number of the work on which you modeled your poem. WRITING GROUPS: Post responses and revision suggestions to the poems containing allusions. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 4 to post their poems for the whole class to discuss (by Sept. 23). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG: WIP 7-6, #1. Scan the first stanza or first four lines of any poem you choose in a closed form from The Pocket Anthology. (A list of closed form poems contained in the anthology can be found in the index.) TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 5 on D2L. SEPT. 27: READING ASSIGNED: CWG Chpt. 8, (162 173). BBB Set Design, False Starts, Plot Treatment, Do You Know When Youre Done (74 - 94). Hold the Enlightenment (HE) Unattractive to the Opposite Sex: An Introduction (xii xviii); Hold the Enlightenment (3 10); Fire and Ice and Everything Nice (43 50); Panic (283 289). Go to the Week 6 Module on D2L to learn about using details in your nonfiction writing, and avoid telling too much (exposition). Also click on the following link to improve your writing by showing, not telling:  HYPERLINK "http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/showing.htm" http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/showing.htm WRITING ASSIGNED: Nonfiction Abstract: (Post to Small Group Forum by Oct. 5) Start work your nonfiction piece (if you havent already). Research factual background material from the library or Internet. Arrange to conduct an interview (if your piece requires interviewing someone). Draft a 150 250-word abstract that describes the article or essay you are writing. In the summary describe the main idea you have for writing this piece, its main components or scenes, and what research materials you have compiled (or persons youve selected to interview). WRITING GROUPS: Post responses and revision suggestions to the poems written in a traditional patterned verse-form. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 1 to post their poems for the whole class to discuss (by Sept. 30). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG WIP 8 1, # 2, a & b; 8 6, #1 and 2. Find materials on the Internet or in the library that will give you background or useful facts pertaining to the subject on which you are writing your non-fiction piece. Make a list of these source materials, even those which you are not sure you will use. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 6 on D2L. OCT. 4: POETRY PORTFOLIO DUE: SUBMIT POETRY PORTFOLIO BY OCT. 4. Compile the five assigned poems as well as other poems you may have completed in a single Word file. Upload the file via the Final Poetry Portfolio uplink under the Final Portfolio tool on the ENGL 71 Homepage. Submit your journal/notebook to the instructor for the poetry segment via the D2L Dropbox. READING ASSIGNED: CWG: Chpt. 8, (173 182). BBB: Dialogue (64 73). HE The Search for the Caspian Tiger (11 27); Bug Scream (28 35); The Platypus Hunter (36 42); The Terrible Land (78 85). Garrett Hongo, Kubota: (click on link)  HYPERLINK "mailto:soldofsk@email.sjsu.edu" http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hongo/volcano.htm WRITING ASSIGNED: Develop a first draft of your non-fiction piece. Write the first page(s); develop an effective opening hook. Work the factual material into your draft. Include dialogue if appropriate. (Post to Small Group Forum by Oct. 11). WRITING GROUPS: Post response to and revision suggestions for group members draft nonfiction abstracts. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 2 (Oct. 7) to post their completed nonfiction abstracts for whole class to comment on. JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CRW: WIP 8 8, # 1; 8 9, # 1, 2; 8 10, #1, 2. Find an article that you can download or attach via a link in your journal/notebook that could be a model for your non-fiction piece. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 7 on D2L. OCT. 11: READING ASSIGNED: CRG: Coming of Age in Mississippi (247 252). HE This Teeming Ark (94 102); Near Massacre Ranch (103 110); The Worlds Most Dangerous Friend (203 221); Collision Course (222 228). WRITING ASSIGNED: Post the opening page(s) of your nonfiction piece, to members of your Small Group Forum for comments (by Oct. 18). Draft the full text of your nonfiction piece. Incorporate all appropriate factual background material into the draft. WRITING GROUPS: Post response to and revision suggestions for group members nonfiction abstracts. Also post responses to group members lists of sources. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 3 to post their non-fiction proposals, with attached list of sources as well as drafts-in-progress for whole class to comment on (by March 18). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CRW: WIP 8 11, # 1; 8 13, # 1. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 8 on D2L. OCT. 18: DUE: Completed draft of the Nonfiction Piece, posted as a Word file to members of your writing group (by October 20). READING ASSIGNED: HE Panic (283 289); Trusty and Grace (290 297). CRG: Chpt. 9; also Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver (252 253). Also The School by Donald Barthleme (click on):  HYPERLINK "http://books.regehr.org/misc/school.html" http://books.regehr.org/misc/school.html. Reunion by John Cheever (click on)  HYPERLINK "http://fourhourhardon.blogspot.com/2006/10/panoply-of-sp.html" http://fourhourhardon.blogspot.com/2006/10/panoply-of-sp.html. BBB: Plot, Broccoli; Radio Station KFKD (110 - 121). WRITING ASSIGNED: Flash Fiction piece. Write a one-scene or two-scene short story--750 words maximum. Use the Barthelme, Carver, and/or Cheever stories as models. (Post to your Small Group Forum by Oct. 26). WRITING GROUPS: Post responses to and revision suggestions for group members Nonfiction Piece completed drafts. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 4 to post their nonfiction drafts with attached list of sources for whole class to comment on (by Oct. 21). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CRG: WIP 9 1, # 1; 9 3, # 1; 9 4, # 2, 3; 9 5, # 2, 3; 9 6, # 3. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 9 on D2L. OCT. 25:SUBMIT NONFICTION PIECE WITH ATTACHED LIST OF SOURCES BY OCT. 25. Upload your nonfiction article or essay (with the attached list of sources) as a single Word file and submit it via the Final Nonfiction Mss. link in the D2L Dropbox on the Upper Nav Bar. Also submit your journal/notebook for the nonfiction unit via the Nonfiction Notebook in the D2L Dropbox. READING ASSIGNED: CRG: Chpt. 10 (204 210). Vintage Contemporary Short Story Anthology (CSS): Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been (CSS 347 365). Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemmingway (click on the following link):  HYPERLINK "http://www.shortstories.computed.net/hemingwayhills.html" http://www.shortstories.computed.net/hemingwayhills.html WRITING ASSIGNED: First draft of Flash Fiction piece: post as a Word file to members of your writing group (by Nov.3). Finish Flash final draft of Flash fiction (short short-story). Begin brainstorming on your second Flash Fiction or longer short story. WRITING GROUPS: Post comments and revision suggestions for first draft of the Flash fiction piece. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 1 to post completed flash fiction piece for comments and revision suggestions by all class members (by Oct. 28). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG: WIP 10 1, #1, 3. 10 2, # 1, 2. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 10 on D2L. NOV. 1: READING ASSIGNED: CWG Chpt. 10 (210 223); also Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston (273 281). BBB Jealousy (133 - 144). CSS: Murderers by Leonard Michaels (342 - 346). Read the file labeled The Wrong Suitcase by Maeve Binchy. Click on the following link to learn more about building plots:  HYPERLINK "http://teenwriting.about.com/cs/plotting/ht/BuildBetterPlot.htm" http://teenwriting.about.com/cs/plotting/ht/BuildBetterPlot.htm  HYPERLINK "http://sjsu.webct.com/engl071sp06as/www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson401/PlotStructure.pps%C2%A0" www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson401/PlotStructure.pps WRITING ASSIGNED: Final draft of Flash Fiction piece. (Post as a Word file to members of Small Group Forum by Nov. 2). Begin working on your longer short story. Sketch a scenario for the storyline, and develop a main protagonist(s) and antagonist(s). WRITING GROUPS: Post comments and revision suggestions for first draft of the Flash fiction piece. Follow the instructions in CRG Writing On Your Own #3. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 2 to post completed flash fiction piece for comments and revision suggestions by all class members (by Nov. 4). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG WIP 10-7 #2, 4; 10 8. Analyze one of this weeks stories: Murderers, Sweat, or A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. Summarize the back story. Note the initial event that starts the rising action. List other events that occur during the storys rising action. What event takes place at the storys climax? What happens at the storys resolution? TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 11 on D2L. NOV. 8: READING ASSIGNED: Read the First-Person Point-of-View Worksheet page on the Week 12 Module in D2L. CWG: Chpt. 11 (224 229); Two Kinds by Amy Tan (312 320). BBB: Calling Around; Someone to Read Your Drafts (151 - 171). CSS: Rock Springs by Richard Ford (162 - 184); Emergency by Denis Johnson (274 285). Haircut by Ring Lardner at the following link:  HYPERLINK "http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/haircut.html" http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/haircut.html Click on this link to learn more about choosing a point of view for your story:  HYPERLINK "http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/elements.asp?e=4" http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/elements.asp?e=4. Click on the following links to learn more about using an unreliable narrator in first-person point of view:  HYPERLINK "http://www.odessa.edu/dept/english/dsmith/pov.htm" http://www.odessa.edu/dept/english/dsmith/pov.htm.  HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator. WRITING ASSIGNED: Write your protagonist's (main character's) profile for the full-length short-story assignment. (Post to Small Group Forum by November 10). Include a sketch of the back story; post the whole draft if it is completed. WRITING GROUPS: Post comments on character profiles to your Small Group Forum (and/or short-story drafts) by November 11). Follow the criteria in the Discussion Guides posted for Weeks 10 and 11 to generate your critical response.ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 3 to post revised first or second flash fiction draft to the Workshop Forum for comments and revision suggestions by all class members. JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CWG: "WIP" 10 - 1, #1, 3. 10 - 2, # 1, 2. Complete a profile for your protagonist. (See character profile worksheet on Desire2Learn under Week 11.) Draft scenes for your protagonist that you might use in your short-story. TEST YOURSELF: Take the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 12 on D2L. NOV 15: READING ASSIGNED: CRG: Chpt. 11 (229 239). BBB: Letters, Writers Block (172 - 182). CSS:The Things the Carry by Tim OBrien (366 - 384). Read Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff:  HYPERLINK "http://www.esiee.fr/%7Ebureaud/jaime../BulletintheBrain.pdf" http://www.esiee.fr/~bureaud/jaime../BulletintheBrain.pdf. Read The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane:  HYPERLINK "http://www.4literature.net/Stephen_Crane/Blue_Hotel/" http://www.4literature.net/Stephen_Crane/Blue_Hotel/ Click on links to learn more about selecting first person, third person and omniscient narration:  HYPERLINK "http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/short_story/tells.htmlWRI" http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/short_story/tells.htmlWRI  HYPERLINK "http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~simpsone/Connections/Fiction/POV/" http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~simpsone/Connections/Fiction/POV/ WRITING ASSIGNED: Continue to work on or revise your longer story or your second Flash fiction piece. Or you may revise your first story. WRITING GROUPS: Post first draft of your longer story as a Word file to members of your writing group (by Nov. 17). Post comments and revision suggestions about the longer story back to the authors in your group. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 4 to post their stories for the whole class on the Workshop discussion board to discuss (by Nov. 18). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: CRG: WIP 11 5; # 1, 2, 3. TEST YOURSELF: Go to the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 13 on D2L. NOV. 22: WRITING GROUPS: Post comments and revision suggestions about any of your group members revised or new stories to the authors. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 1 and 2 to post their stories for the whole class to discuss (by Nov. 24). READING ASSIGNED: CRG: Follow the Eagle by William Kotzwinkle (281 283); The Woman Who Came at Six Oclock, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (281 291). Read A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, found on the Week 14 Module on D2L. BBB Index Cards, Calling Around, (133 150). Read the Magic Realism Worksheet on the Week 14 Module in D2L. WRITING ASSIGNED: Post new or revised story as an attached Word file to members of your writing group (by Nov. 24). Continue working on or revise your longer story or your second Flash fiction piece. Or revise your first story. JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: Read the following links to read about magical realism:  HYPERLINK "http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/03findmagicalrealism/%0D" http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/resourcebank/03findmagicalrealism/  HYPERLINK "http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/oyos/magic/oyos_magic_read.jhtml" http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/oyos/magic/oyos_magic_read.jhtml Read this interview with writer Isabel Allende about magical realism:  HYPERLINK "http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/nonficCZWEnglish.html" http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/nonficCZWEnglish.html Write a short scene or piece of flash fiction in your journal/notebook that uses the technique of magical realism. TEST YOURSELF: Go to the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 14 on D2L. THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: NOV. 25 26. NOV. 29:READING ASSIGNED: CSS Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta, by Kate Braverman (89 - 107); Cathedral by Raymond Carver (108 124); A Romantic Weekend by Mary Gaitskill; (185 - 206). WRITING ASSIGNED: Complete revisions of your full-length story. WRITING GROUPS: Post new or revised story to members of your writing group (by Dec. 1). Post comments and editing suggestions about any of your group members revised stories to the authors. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Group 3 and 4 to post their stories for the whole class to discuss (by Dec. 2). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: Compare the reliability of the narrators in the stories you read for this week. Rank the narrators according to who is the most reliable, who is the least reliable. In a sentence for each story, describe in what way the main character is changed at the end of the story. RE-WRITE YOUR DIAGNOSTIC WRITING SAMPLE SELF-PORTRAIT: Upload the re-write of your Self-Portrait as a Word file by clicking on the Post Diagnostic link on the D2L ENGL 71 homepage (DUE BY DEC. 6). Those who do not turn in their revisions will receive an Incomplete for the semester. TEST YOURSELF: Go to the quiz labeled Test Yourself for Week 15 on D2L. DEC 6: DUE: Completed draft of your second or third short story (or Flash Fiction piece), posted to members of your writing group (by Dec. 8). WRITING GROUPS: Post comments and revision suggestions about any of your group members revised or new stories. ONLINE WORKSHOP: Post re-writes or completed new stories as an attached Word file for final workshop discussion (all groups). JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK: Complete all notebook and pre-writing exercises. DEC 13:FINAL DAY TO SUBMIT ALL COMPLETED SHORT STORIES: Upload your fiction portfolio by no later than May 13 via the Dropbox on D2L on the ENGL 71 homepage. Also post your fiction assignments in your journal/notebook via the Final Portfolio tool on the ENGL 71home page. NO WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER DEC. 13. 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