SCHEDULE, Intermediate Fiction Writing, Spring 2003
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Class Discussion /Activities |
Written Work Due |
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WEEK 1 / Jan. 15 Introductions, policies, course goals, exercises, review of techniques |
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Week 2 / Jan. 22 Handouts–"Girl" TBASS–"Black Elvis" "Nilda" "The Beautiful Days" "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water" "Hills Like White Elephants" |
SA1–Character sketch |
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Week 3 / Jan. 29 TBASS–"Brownies" "The Third and Final Continent" "The Chinese Lobster" |
SA2–Dialogue with atmosphere |
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Week 4 / Feb. 5 TBASS–"Call If You Need Me" "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" Workshop Terminology and Protocol |
Story 1 drafts due -bring copies to class. |
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Week 5 / Feb. 12 Workshop A, story 1 "People Like That..." "Why I Live at the PO" "Taking Care" |
SA3-Point of view |
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Week 6 / Feb. 19 Workshop B, story 1"How Far She Went" "Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd" |
Revision of Story 1 due (from Workshop A) |
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Week 7 / Feb. 26 "Killings" "To See You Again" |
Revision of Story 1 due (from Workshop B) |
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Week 8 / March 5 "The Chronology of Water" "Mushrooms, Pepperoni & the Woman in this Story" |
Exercise in experimental writing |
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Week 9 / March 12 Kim Barnes’s Reading "Ralph the Duck" Revision |
Story #2 due in class (copied for workshop) |
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Week 10 / March 26 Workshop "The Things They Carried" "Persistence of Memory" |
Story Journals due–5 stories |
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Week 11 / Apr 2 Last day to withdraw. Conferences Janet Holmes / Al Greenberg Reading |
Revision of Story #2 due |
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Week 12 / Apr 9 Academic advising begins. TBASS–"Bones of the Inner Ear" "Gryphon" "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" |
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Week 13 / Apr 16 Endings / Resolutions Stories TBA Scott Russell Sanders Reading |
Story #3 due in class (copied for workshop) |
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Week 14 / Apr 23 Workshop |
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Week 15 / Apr 30 Conferences |
All final revisions of Story #3 due by Friday, May 2 at 5 p.m. |
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May 7 Finale: in-class reading and pizza |
Story Journals due–5 stories |