ENG 287 Poetry Schedule

ENG 287: Introduction to 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. If you miss more than 4 due dates you fail the course. Work submitted after the due date will not receive credit.
Each missed assignment is an absence, and each absence negatively affects your grade.
Work is due at noon on the date listed. For this class you have 4 types of work due.

Reading - Worth 20% of your grade. For 10 weeks you will be assigned a chapter or two of reading. You will compose a response to the reading and post it in the Reading Discussion Board. To receive credit your response must:

• meet the word-length requirement of 500 words
• use short quotes to support your response
• provide analysis (using literary terms) rather than summary (retelling)

Workshop - Worth 30% of your grade. You will prepare written workshop responses for all of the people in your group. You will post all of your comments in one post in the Workshop forum in BB. To receive credit your response must:

• meet the word-length requirement of 500 words per post
• use short quotes to support your response
• provide analysis (using literary terms) rather than summary (retelling)
• offer suggestions for revision

Writing - Worth 20% of your grade. For 10 weeks you will be given an assignment to write a poem. It is very important to turn your writing in on time so that peers have time to respond. To receive credit your response must:

• be posted on time
• show a thoughtful response to the writing assignment

Portfolio - Worth 30% of your grade. Revision is an imperative step for even the most experienced and skilled writers. Revision is especially important for student writers, since successful revisions show mastery of literary terms and techniques. For the Portfolio you will revise work you have turned in throughout the semester. Grades for the Portfolio are based on the quality of your revisions and your ability to describe why you made the changes you did based on literary skills. Please see the "Portfolio" button in Blackboard for complete instructions.

Spring 2011 Schedule
ENG 287 Beginning Workshop Poetry
		Work Due at Tuesday Noon		Work Due Thursday at Noon
Week 1	18-Jan	Questions: Study all of the sections in the Blackboard course (Announcements, Policies, Schedule, Materials, Discussion). If you have questions, please post them in the "Questions" Forum.	20-Jan	Introductions: Please post a 500 word note about yourself in the "Introductions" Forum.
Week 2	25-Jan	Favorites: In the Favorites forum, post a 500 word note that describes your 5 favorite Living Contemporary American poets. They must be AMERICAN and ALIVE. Consider the following questions: What draws you to their work? What career paths have they followed? What work of theirs have your read or would you like to read?	27-Jan	Goals: In the Goals forum, post a 500 word note that clearly define 5 goals you have for the semester.
See Above for Thorough Description of Reading, Writing, Workshop, and Portfolio Assignments.
Week 3	1-Feb	Reading 1 Chapter 1 An Introduction and Chapter 10 Finding the Poem Writing 1 Write a list of three emotions you have felt recently. Choose one of those and fill in sensory details that correspond with it (sight, sound, smell, taste, texture). Use those sensory details to write a poem about the emotion, but do not name the emotion.	3-Feb	Workshop 1
Week 4	8-Feb	Reading 2 Chapter 2 Verse Writing 2 Write a poem in a very strict form, such as rhyming couplets. Then re-write the poem in free verse.	10-Feb	Workshop 2
Week 5	15-Feb	Reading 3 Chapter 3 Measuring the Line I and Chapter 4 Measuring the Line II Writing 3 Write a poem in syllabics.	17-Feb	Workshop 3
Week 6	22-Feb	Reading 4 Chapter 5 The Sound and Look of Sense Writing 4 Write a love poem with harsh sounds or a hate poem with soft sounds.	24-Feb	Workshop 4
Week 7	1-Mar	Reading 5 Chapter 6 Subject Matter Writing 5 Using research, write a poem about an odd or unique subject.	3-Mar	Workshop 5
Week 8	8-Mar	Update Favorites	10-Mar	Update Goals
Week 9	15-Mar	Spring	17-Mar	Break
Week 10	22-Mar	Reading 6 Chapter 7 Metaphor Writing 6 Make up as many metaphors or similes as you can for a common object. Develop the best into a poem.	24-Mar	Workshop 6
Week 11	29-Mar	Reading 7 Chapter 8 Tale, Teller Tone Writing 7 Write a poem from the point of view of someone you usually disagree with.	31-Mar	Workshop 7
Week 12	5-Apr	Reading 8 Chapter 9 The Mysteries of Language Writing 8 Write a poem in the voice of a unique or odd speaker.	7-Apr	Workshop 8
Week 13	12-Apr	Reading 9 Chapter 11 Devising and Revising Writing 9 Write a 20 line poem about taking a walk. Include specific detail about what the walker encounters.	14-Apr	Workshop 9
Week 14	19-Apr	Reading 10 Chapter 12 Becoming a Poet Writing 10 Write a wild nonsense poem.	21-Apr	Workshop 10
Week 15	26-Apr	Portfolio Draft Due	28-Apr	Portfolio Workshop Due
Week 16	3-May	Portfolio Due	5-May	Happy Summer Break

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