Homework for Wednesday

• Today in class we peer reviewed sestinas. If you did not peer review in class, please bring your sestina to the Academic Resource Center to be peer reviewed.
• Final drafts with peer review sheets are due in class on Wednesday.

More McSweeney's Sestinas

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-forest-of-barbaric-sestinas

McSweeney's sestina

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/sestinas

Remember!

Your short story is due on Wednesday 12/16. Please bring rough drafts and copies of peer reviewed (and signed) peer edited rough drafts!

Here are some resources we talked informally about in class today that you might find interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQYA9Qjsi0

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/superpacs.php

For Thursday 12/10

• Be sure you bring 3 copies of your short story rough draft to class. This is a graded assignment, and we will spend Wednesday working on peer review in class.

Friday 11/20

• We wrote for 20 minutes on an image we brought to class, and we put this in our writing folder.
• We began a story outline for our short story. Be sure to have this completed before Thanksgiving break.
• We handed in writer's notebook. These were due in class on Friday.

Short story schedule and assignment

Creative Writing                                                                                          Name

Short Story Assignment

100 points

 

We have been studying how different writers approach the short story, and what we might learn from these writers for the last several weeks.

Now, your work is to write a short story of your own. The story needs to be original, and it needs to be seven to fifteen pages in length. Several of you have asked if you might write a chapter of a longer work for this assignment, and that is perfectly acceptable. If you choose to do this, please remember to contextualize the short story for me, particularly if what you hand in is not the beginning of the story.

The timeline for our work is outlined below:

1.      Complete short story study notebook is due on 11/20 (This grade is separate from the short story)

2.      Group discussion and short story outline due 11/24

3.      Research questions due via email by 11/25

4.      Library research 11/30

5.      Writing Days 12/2, 12/14 and 12/8.

6.      3 Copies of the draft due for peer review (graded) on 12/10

7.      In class revision day 12/14

8.      Short story due on 12/16