Fall 2010 | R 2-4:30 pm | Jackson Hall 113
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Week 1: Aug 26
Introduction to poetry and prose fiction
Prose 1 assigned (see Blackboard)
Lorrie Moore's "How to Become a Writer Or, Have You Earned This Cliche?"
Events: President's Convocation (11 am Tuesday, Brown Chapel)
Week 2: Sept 2
LaPlante Chapters 1-4 with stories
Prose 2 assigned
Prose 1 due
Week 3: Sept 9
LaPlante Chapters 5-7
Prose 1 workshop
Prose 3 assigned
Prose 2 due
Week 4: Sept 16
LaPlante Chapters 8-10
Prose 2 workshop
Prose 4 assigned
Prose 3 due
Week 5: Sept 23
LaPlante Chapters 11-12
Prose 3 workshop
Prose 5 assigned
Prose 4 due
Week 6: Sept 30
LaPlante Chapter 13
Declare the poem you want to recite
Prose 4 workshop
Prose 5 due
Week 7: Oct 7
Prose 5 workshop
Fiction Exam
Week 8: Fall Break
Week 9: Oct 21
Oliver Chapters 1-5, 13, and 16, with poems on pages 111-142
Poem 1 assigned
Discuss explication
Poem recitations begin: Jacob, Amanda (Hopkins' "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child"), Corinne (Wordsworth's "Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room")
Week 10: Oct 28
Oliver Chapters 6-9 with poems on pages 143-158
Wade 3 and 27-31
Poem 2 assigned
Poem 1 due
Poem recitations: Taylor (Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us"), Kyle (Smith's "Ozymandias"), Erika (Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death")
Week 11: Nov 4
Oliver Chapters 14-15 with poems on pages 159-174
Poem 1 workshop
Poem 3 assigned
Poem 2 due
Poem recitations: JoyBeth, Delisha (Kipling's "If"), Lea (Shakespeare's Sonnet 130)
Week 12: Nov 11
Oliver Chapters 7 and 10 with poems on pages 175-188
Poem 2 workshop
Poem 4 assigned
Poem 3 due
Poem recitations: Kate (Wade's "Leaving Train"), Katie (Frost's "The Road Not Taken")
Week 13: Nov 18
Oliver Chapters 11-12 and 17 Poem 3 workshop
Poem 4 due
Poem 5 assigned
Poem recitations: Noel, Rachel (Blake's "The Divine Image")
Week 14: Thanksgiving break
Week 15: Dec 2
Wade 7-24
Explication due
Poem 4 workshop
Poem 5 due
Week 16: Dec 9
Wade 34-48 and 51-74
Poem 5 workshop
Journal submissions
Finals Week
Final exam: 4-7 pm Monday, December 13
Portfolio and final journals due via email or at Jac 312 by 5 pm Friday, December 17
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