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ENG 387: 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. 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 (Monday or Wednesday). 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. In order to receive credit your response must:

• meet the word-length requirement of 300 words (or surpass it)
• use short quotes to support your response
• provide analysis (using literary terms) rather than summary (retelling)

Reading Responses is graded out of 10 total posts.

10 100% A
9 90% A
8 80% B
7 70% C
6 60% D
5 50% E

Workshop - Worth 30% of your grade. You will prepare written workshop responses, which we will use to fuel discussion during out Monday face to face class periods.

• meet the word-length requirement of 300 words per poem (or surpass it)
• use short quotes to support your response
• provide analysis (using literary terms) rather than summary (retelling)
• offer suggestions for revision

Workshop is graded out of 10 total posts.

10 100% A
9 90% A
8 80% B
7 70% C
6 60% D
5 50% E

 

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.

Writing is graded out of 10 total posts.

10 100% A
9 90% A
8 80% B
7 70% C
6 60% D
5 50% E
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 2010 Schedule
ENG 387 Intermediate Poetry
  Monday Work Due at Noon Wednesday Work Due at Noon
Week 1 18-Jan

Questions About the Course: Study all of the sections in the Blackboard course (Announcements, Policies, Schedule, Materials, Discussion). If you have questions, please post them in the "Questions about the Course" Forum.

 20-Jan Please post a note about yourself in the "Virtual Cafe" Forum.
Week 2 25-Jan
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? If you don't have a favorite 5 in mind, then start by browsing our textbook, amazon.com, or literary magzines at www.newpages.com
27-Jan
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 3 1-Feb

Reading 1

Preface, Introduction, Appendix
Chapter 1 Words that Paint, Colors that Speak

 3-Feb

Writing 1-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Please type out the prompt you have chosen. Chose any prompt on page 24.

 
Week 4 8-Feb

Workshop 1

Reading 2
Chapter 2 Lively Image vs. Deadly Cliche
and Chapter 3 Sound of Contemporary Poetry

 10-Feb Writing 2--For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Please type out the prompt you have chosen. Chose any prompt on page 36.
Week 5 15-Feb

Workshop 2

Reading 3
Chapter 4 Conflict and Transformation
Chapter 5 Do Poems Have a Plot?

17-Feb Writing 3-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Change poem--Write a poem portraying an adult you know. Using fresh, concrete images throughout, demonstrate a key change that a person goes through.
Week 6 22-Feb

Workshop 3

Reading 4
Chapter 6 Empathy and Creativity
Chapter 7 Leaping through Time and Space

24-Feb Writing 4-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Write a poem in the form of a letter. Tell two interrelated stories in the one poem. Make sure each story has a problem and that each problem enhances the understanding of hte other.
Week 7 1-Mar

Workshop 4

Reading 5
Chapter 8 Frames and Forms
Chapter 9 Stanzas, Prose, and the Page

3-Mar Writing 5-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Write a sestina.
Week 8 8-Mar

Workshop 5

Update Favorite Writers & Course Goals

 10-Mar

Writing 6-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Write a pome in prose. Do not exceed 250 words and use only one paragraph. Concentrate on action verbs, imagination, and surprise.

Week 9 15-Mar Spring 17-Mar Break
Week 10 22-Mar

Workshop 6

Reading 6
Chapter 10 Surrealism

24-Mar Writing 7--For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Write a poem based on a dream you've actually had. Make sure the poem can make sense to someone other than yourself. It must have some connection to reality.
Week 11 29-Mar

Workshop 7

Reading 7
Chapter 11 Writing about Sadness

31-Mar Writing 8-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Try writing a poem in which you remember the comc elements you hsared wit hteh person you have lost. Without becoming maudlin, invest the poem with a conflict that involves a deeper point of view.
Week 12 5-Apr

Workshop 8

Reading 8
Chapter 12 Poetry and Eros

7-Apr Writing 9-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Write a love poem in which you recognize a neagtive characteristic of the person who is loved.
Week 13 12-Apr

Workshop 9

Reading 9
Chapter 13 The Poetry of Witness

 14-Apr Writing 10-- For all 10 poems you will write an original poem that responds directly to a prompt. Write a poem from the vantage point of the opposite sex. Imagina a critical situation or highly charges emotion or both. Convey what the person is going through.
Week 14 19-Apr

Workshop 10

Reading 10
Chapter 14 Stretching the Imagination
Chapter 15 Breaking Rules, Nurturing Weird

21-Apr Work on Portfolio
Week 15 26-Apr Work on Portfolio 28-Apr Work on Portfolio
Week 16 3-May Portfolio Due 5-May Happy Summer Break