| Week
1 |
Jan 8
Monday
|
Introduction and
Overview
|
| |
Jan 10
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 1 in MM, Tobias Wolff's "Bullet
in the
Brain" in Method and Madness
(MM)
and
Donald Hall's "The
Insides of Words" before class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 1
|
| |
Jan 12
Friday |
Review Chapter 1; Read Denis Johnson's "Emergency"
in MM before
class.
Journal Acitivty: Complete
Prompt 2 |
| Week
2 |
Jan 15
Monday |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day - No Class
|
|
Jan 17
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 2 and
Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" in
MM and
Donald Hall's "Verbs" before
class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 3
|
| |
Jan 19
Friday |
Read Donald Hall's "Nouns" and "Adjectives and Adverbs and Other Modifiers" before
class
Read MLA formatting guidelines; use these guidelines to
submit all work this semester.
Roundtable: Bring thee copies of a 2-page story to class |
| Week
3 |
Jan 22
Monday |
Read Chapter 3 and Ron Hanson's
"Nebraska" in MM before
class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 4 |
|
Jan 24
Wednesday |
Read Chapter
4, Junot Diaz's "Fiesta, 1980" in MM
before class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 5 |
| |
Jan 26
Friday |
Roundtable:
Bring three copies of a 4-page story to class |
| Week 4 |
Jan 29
Monday |
Read
Chapter 5
and ZZ Packer's "Brownies" in MM before
class
Journal
Activity: Complete Prompt
6 |
|
|
Jan 31
Wednesday |
Read Flannery O'Connor's "Everything that
Rises Must Converge" in MM and Donald Hall's "Sentences" before class.
Journal
Activity: Complete Prompt 7
|
| |
Feb 2
Friday |
Bring
three copies of a 2-page scene to class. |
| Week 5 |
Feb 5
Monday |
Read Chapter 6 and Don Chaon's "The Bees" in
MM before class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt
8
|
|
Feb 7
Wednesday |
Read Chapter 7 and
Robert Olen Butler's "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" in MM before
class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt
9 |
| |
Feb 9
Friday |
Bring three copies of a 6-page story to
class |
| Week 6 |
Feb 12
Monday |
Reread Don Chaon's "The Bees" in MM
and "A Grammatical
Excursion" before class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 10
|
|
|
Feb 14
Wednesday |
Review Chapter 8 and Toni
Cade Bambara's "My Man Bovanne" in MM
before class.
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 11
|
| |
Feb 16
Friday |
Read Around: Bring 1 page of scene with
dialogue to class. |
| Week 7 |
Feb 19
Monday |
Presidents' Day - No Class |
|
|
Feb 21
Wednesday |
Read
Chapter 10 and Jess Walter's "Mr. Voice" before class
Journal Activity: Complete Prompt 12 |
| |
Feb 23
Friday |
Bring three copies of an 8-page story to
class |
| Week
8 |
Feb 26
Monday |
Discuss
Ron Carlson Write's a Story
(103-112)
Journal
Activity: Complete Prompt 13 |
| |
Feb 28
Wednesday |
Discuss
Ron Carlson Write's a Story
(3-27)
Journal
Activity: Complete Prompt 14 |
| |
Mar 2
Friday |
Discuss
Ron Carlson Write's a Story
(28-55)
Journal
Activity: Complete Prompt 15 |
| Week 9 |
Mar 5
Monday |
Discuss Ron Carlson Write's a Story
(56-74) |
|
|
Mar 7
Wednesday |
No Class |
| |
Mar 9
Friday |
No Class
|
| Spring Break - No
Class this Week |
| Week
10 |
Mar 19
Monday |
Workshop; attendance
and preparation for workshop days is strongly recommended |
| |
Mar 21
Wednesday |
Workshop |
| |
Mar 23
Friday |
Workshop |
| Week 11 |
Mar 26
Monday |
Workshop
|
| |
Mar 28
Wednesday |
Workshop |
| |
Mar 30
Friday |
Workshop |
| Week 12 |
April 2
Monday |
Workshop |
| |
April 4
Wednesday |
Workshop |
| |
April 6
Friday |
Workshop |
| Week
13 |
April 9
Monday |
Workshop |
| |
April 11
Wednesday |
Workshop |
| |
April 13
Friday |
Workshop |
| Week
15 |
April 16
Monday |
Workshop |
|
April 18
Wednesday |
Workshop
|
| |
April 20
Friday |
Workshop |
| Week
16 |
April 23
Monday |
Read Chapter 13 and
Ann Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts" in MM
before class
Discuss Portfolio |
| |
April 25
Wednesday |
TBA |
| |
April 27
Friday |
TBA |
| Week
17 |
May 3
Wednesday |
Portfolio
due in Avery 370 by 5:00 p.m. |