ENG 310: Intermediate Creative Writing, Poetry Schedule
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All due dates are subject to change. Changes will appear on the Announcements page in myASU. Read announcements each time you log on.
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This course is not self-paced. There are 36 due dates. If you miss more than 4 due dates you fail the course. Work submitted after the due dates will not receive credit.
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Each missed assignment is an absence, and each absence negatively affects your grade.
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Work is due at midnight on the night listed (so, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday night at midnight).
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I grade early in the morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If your work is there you receive credit. If it is not you do not receive credit.
Fall 2008 |
Tuesday -- Reading Due |
Thursday -- Writing Due |
Sunday -- Workshop Responses Due |
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Week 1 |
26-Aug |
Questions About the Course: Also, please post a note about yourself in the "Getting to Know You" board. |
28-Aug |
Favorite Writers: In the Favorite Writers forum, post a 500 word note that describes your 5 favorite Living American poets (for our purposes they must be alive and they must be American). 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? |
31-Aug |
Course Goals: In the Course Goals forum, post a 500 word note that clearly define 5 goals you have for the semester. You will use these goals when you write your final portfolio, so it is important that they are specific. Consider the following: What aspects of craft would you like to improve? What are your strengths and weaknesses with poetry: titling, speaker, characters, setting, theme, tone, structure, imagery, figurative language, and musical devices. |
Week 2 |
2-Sep |
Group Orientation |
4-Sep |
Group Orientation |
7-Sep |
Group Orientation |
Week 3 |
9-Sep |
Reading 1 • meet the word-length requirement of 400-500 words (or surpass it) |
11-Sep |
Poem 1 For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to the prompt listed here. Please type out the prompt you have chosen. Any prompt on page 24 |
14-Sep |
Workshop Response 1 For all 10 workshop responses you will compose a response to your group members and post it in the Writing Board. In order to receive credit your response must: • meet the word-length requirement of 400-500 words (or surpass it) |
Week 4 |
16-Sep |
Reading 2 Chapter 2 Lively Image vs. Deadly Cliche and Chapter 3 Sound of Contemporary Poetry |
18-Sep |
Poem 2 |
21-Sep |
Workshop Response 2 |
Week 5 |
23-Sep |
Reading 3 Chapter 4 Conflict and Transformation Chapter 5 Do Poems Have a Plot? |
25-Sep |
Poem 3 Any prompt on page 71, 72, 90, 91 |
28-Sep |
Workshop Response 3 |
Week 6 |
30-Sep |
Reading 4 Chapter 6 Empathy and Creativity Chapter 7 Leaping through Time and Space |
2-Oct |
Poem 4 Any prompt on page 104, 105, 106, 119, 120 |
5-Oct |
Workshop Response 4 |
Week 7 |
7-Oct |
Reading 5 Chapter 8 Frames and Forms Chapter 9 Stanzas, Prose, and the Page |
9-Oct |
Poem 5 Any prompt on page 137, 138, 139, 150, 151 |
12-Oct |
Workshop Response 5 |
Week 8 |
14-Oct |
Group Orientation |
16-Oct |
Group Orientation |
19-Oct |
Group Orientation |
Week 9 |
21-Oct |
Reading 6 Chapter 10 Surrealism |
23-Oct |
Poem 6 Any prompt on page 164, 165 |
26-Oct |
Workshop Response 6 |
Week 10 |
28-Oct |
Reading 7 |
30-Oct |
Poem 7 Any prompt on page 174, 175 |
2-Nov |
Workshop Response 7 |
Week 11 |
4-Nov |
Reading 8 Chapter 12 Poetry and Eros |
6-Nov |
Poem 8 Any prompt on page 187, 188 |
9-Nov |
Workshop Response 8 |
Week 12 |
11-Nov |
There is no school on Nov 11 so you can post this the following day. |
13-Nov |
Poem 9 Any prompt on page 203, 204 |
16-Nov |
Workshop Response 9 |
Week 13 |
18-Nov |
Reading 10 |
20-Nov |
Poem 10 Any prompt on page 214, 215, 228, 229 |
23-Nov |
Workshop Response 10 |
Week 14 |
25-Nov |
Happy |
27-Nov |
Thanksgiving |
30-Nov |
Break |
Week 15 |
2-Dec |
Portfolio First Draft Due |
4-Dec |
Portfolio Workshops Due |
7-Dec |
Portfolio Final Due |
Week 16 |
9-Dec |
Happy |
11-Dec |
Winter |
14-Dec |
Break |
Patricia Colleen Murphy, MFA * Arizona State University * 240M Santa Catalina Hall * 7291 E Sonoran Arroyo Mall * Mesa, AZ 85212