ENG 310 Schedule

ENG 310: Intermediate Creative Writing, Poetry

Schedule

All due dates are subject to change.
Changes will appear on the Announcements page in myASU. Read announcements each time you log on.
This course is not self-paced. There are set due dates. Work submitted after the due dates will not receive credit.
Each missed assignment will result in an absence, and each absence will negatively affect your grade.
If you miss more than 4 class assignments you will automatically fail the course.
Work is due at midnight on the night listed (so, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday night at midnight).

I grade early in the morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If your work is there when I grade you will receive credit. If it is not there you will not receive credit.

Spring 2007	Tuesday -- Reading Post Due		Thursday -- Writing Due		Sunday -- Workshop Responses Due
Week 1	8-21	Introduction: 1) Please post a note about yourself in the Virtual Cafe. List 10 unique details about you. Make one of them a lie. 2) Read the Preface, Appendix, and Pocket Definitions in our textbook. 3) Read the Course Policies, Course Schedule, and Course Assignments	8-23	Introduction: Please post a 500 word description of your personal course goals for this session. Please address the following questions: What has been your experience thus far with writing? With writing workshops? What do you hope to learn about writing? What type of feedback would you like to receive from your peers? From the instructor? How do you want your writing to change over the course of the semester?	8-26	Read the Workshop and Reading instructions on the "Course Materials" page.
Week 2	8-28	Reading: Chapter 1 About Reading and Writing Poetry and Chapter 2 Accentual and Syllabic Verse—The Musics of Meters.	8-30	Poem 1 -- Write a Nonce Sonnet. Nonce means the poet has decided on the terms of formal regularity in the text. A sonnet is traditionally written in iambic pentameter with 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme (abab, cdcd, efef, gg) (See pg 24). In your nonce sonnet, you decide on the terms.	9-2	Workshop Responses
Week 3	9-4	Reading: Chapter 3 Couplets and the Sounds of Full, Slant, and No Rhyme.	9-6	Poem 2 -- Write a poem in couplets using subtle rhyme.	9-9	Workshop Responses
Week 4	9-11	Reading: Chapter 4 Elegies and Aubades—Meditations on Loss and Longing	9-13	Poem 3 -- Write an elegy or an aubade.	9-16	Workshop Responses
Week 5	9-18	Reading: Chapter 5 Ghazals and Pantoums—Inhabiting Another Language	9-20	Poem 4 -- Write a Ghazal or a Pantoum	9-23	Workshop Responses
Week 6	9-25	Reading: Chapter 6 Haiku and Haiku-Like Sequences: Making a Perfect Little Out of a Lot of Life	9-27	Poem 5 -- Write a poem in haiku sequence.	9-30	Workshop Responses
Week 7	10-2	Reading: Chapter 7 Listing and Repetition-Catalog, Complicating, and Syncopating	10-4	Poem 6 -- Write a list poem.	10-7	Workshop Responses
Week 8	10-9	Reading: Chapter 8 Odes and Praisesongs—When Poets Look Up	10-11	Poem 7 --Write an ode.	10-14	Workshop Responses
Week 9	10-16	Reading: Chapter 9 Prose Poems—Redefining the Line	10-18	Poem 8 -- Write a prose poem.	10-21	Workshop Responses
Week 10	10-23	Reading: Chapter 10 Quatrains-Compounding the Options in Line and Rhyme.	10-25	Poem 9 --Write a poem in quatrains.	10-28	Workshop Responses
Week 11	10-30	Reading: Chapter 11 Sestinas—A Cat's Cradle of Word Patterns	11-1	Poem 10 -- Write a sestina.	11-4	Workshop Responses
Week 12	11-6	Reading: Chapter 12 Sonnets—Exploring the Possibilities of Fourteen Lines	11-8	Poem 11 --Write a sonnet.	11-11	Workshop Responses
Week 13	11-13	Reading: Chapter 13 Tercets, Terza Rima, Triplets, and Villanelles—Thinking in Threes	11-15	Poem 12 -- Write a villanelle.	11-18	Workshop Responses
Week 14	11-20	Happy	11-22	Thanksgiving	11-25	Break
Week 15	11-27	Prepare for Final	11-29	Prepare for Final	12-2	Portfolio First Draft Due to "Course Discussion" area
Week 16	12-4	Portfolio Workshop Responses due to "Course Discussion" area	12-6	Portfolio Final Draft Due to "Course Assignments" area	12-9	Congratulations! You're Finished.