Tentative Schedule CRW 2000
McClain
Week One: Introduction to course; Assign pp. 2-9 in
text; Students share one previous work; Haiku; Writer’s journal handout.
Week Two: Labor Day; Go over pp.2-9; Continue Haiku;
Student sharing; Ch 6; Elements of poetry handout; Introduce Parody p. 394.
Week
Three: Parody samples; Assign Parody;
Student Sharing; Introduce Octiva Rima.
Week
Four: Student Octiva
Rima due; Film; Introduce Sonnet; Samples.
Week Five: Sonnets due; Free Verse Samples; Introduce
Short Fiction; Ch.9, pp. 174-182; pp.; Characterization
Week Six: One page narrative; Go over Ch.10,
Narrative and its problems; Read and discuss Short Fiction by selected authors.
Week
Seven: More stories; Showing vs.
telling; Narrative due; Student sharing.
Week Eight: Objective point of view; Samples; “Hills Like White Elephants” a study; Juggling.
Week Nine: Objective story due; Student sharing;
There’s a bear at the door; Preparing your manuscript for publication Ch.16.
Week Ten: Journal check; Student share; Library;
There’s a Bear at the door story due.
Week Eleven: Chapter 11 “Creative Nonfiction” pp.236-244;
Memoirs/family stories Ch.12; Cante fable in class.
Week Twelve:
Week Thirteen: Drama; One
act play, Thirst by Eugene O’Neill
Week Fourteen: Thirst
continued; Thanksgiving holiday
Week
Fifteen: Check Writer’s journal; Conference on One act play assignment.
Week
Sixteen: Submit folder of works; Share one act plays.