Assignments

__Assignment for Monday, January 11__

(1) Read and "point to" William Stafford's "A Way of Writing." To "point to" a piece means to highlight, underline, or write a list of words, phrases, lines, or passages that provoked you or promoted understanding.



(2) Freewrite #4: Peter Elbow writes that we can find "good bits" amidst the garbage that makes up so much of our freewriting. Choose one of "the good bits" from from Freewrite #3 and write one page about that good bit in your notebook. Remember, keep your hand moving and lose control. Don't edit yourself!

__Assignment for Wednesday, January 13__

1. Read pgs. 3-15 in Anne Lamott's //Bird by Bird// and "point to" compelling words, phrases, lines, or passages with a highlighter. You should aim for AT :LEAST one highlight per page.

2. Read Chapter 2 in //Writing True// and use one of the "Eight Ideas for Getting Started" on pg. 30-31 as the inspiration for a one-page entry in your notebook (Freewrite #5)..

__Assignment for Thursday, January 14__ 1. Read and "point to" Lamott pages 16-29 2. Write 1.5 notebook pages in response to your "random topic" (Freewrite #8)

__Assignment for Friday, Jan 15:__ 1. Write 1.5 pages from a "Masked Perspective" ("A Martian Sends a Postcard Home") aboiut one of the topics from your cluster (Freewrite #9).

__Assignment for Wednesday, Jan 20:__ 1. Read Chapter 4 in Writing True and write 2 pages in response on the "Ways In" at the end of the chapter (Freewrite #10).

__Assignment for Thursday, Jan 21:__ 1. Review your freewrite entries in your notebook. 2. Choose your best excerpt from the notebook and type it up as a Word Document. Must be between 95-105 words. No longer, no shorter. Print 4 copies to bring to class.

__Assignments for Friday, Jan 22nd:__

1. Highlight examples of good word choice in your classmates' 100 word excerpt. 2.Write a 7-10 commentary about your classmates' word choice in their 100word exceprt. Use the sheet itself. Only discuss the writer's word choice strengths.

__Assignments for Monday, Jan 25:__

1. Read Chapter 7 in Writing True 2. Revise the word choice of your 100-word excerpt based on classmates' recommendations.

Assignment for Wed Jan 27:

1. Find a passge from a book, essay etc. that you like and type of a 100-word excerpt from that novel. 2. Under the paragraph, write 7-10 sentences on how word choice impacts the meaning/effect of the excerpt. Be specific.

Homework for Friday, Jan 29:

A) Complete the following:

Assignment for Monday, Jan 30:

1. Revise your 100-word excerpt based on feedback you got in Friday's class. 2. Create a revised google doc version of you essay based on the feedback you get in Friday's class. docs.google.com

Assignment for Wednesday, Feb 3:

Assignment for Thursday, Feb 4: 1. Write 2 pages in your notebook in response to any one of the place prompts linked by the "Place" item on the wiki menu (Freewrite #12)

Assignment for Friday, February 5:

1. Rewrite previous night's freewrite writing only with a focus on your previously ignored mode/s of sensory detail (visual, tactile, nasal, auditory, taste).

Assignment for Monday, February 8:

1. Based on our discussion of "Island" by Gretel Ehrlrich, review Thursday and Friday's freewrites write a two-page entry in your notebook in which you further develop a detail that you feel helps you understand something new or makes a deeper connection with some other aspect of your experience. In other words, write 2 pages about a detail that seems to be related to something else you want to talk about, that seems to be related to some other "island of detail." Build a detail archipelago!!!!

Assignment for Wednesday, February 8: 1. One notebook page in your on campus place. 2. One notebook page in response to your place prompt.

Assignment for Thursday, February 9:

1. Write a one-page extenson of your "A place I'd never want to go back to freewrite" 2. Write 3 half-page freewrites to develop any 3 of the details that your classmates wrote on your place poster.

Assignment for Friday, February 10:

1. Friday 2/12 before class, ALL STUDENTS must create a Google Doc that features 3 100-150 word excerpts from your place freewrites and then invite the entire class as collaborators.

2. Here is the list of the class emails for you to copy and paste into the "Share"/"Invite Collaborators" box on Google Docs. Let me know if you have issues (with this assignment not in general =) )

AllisonCapper@Westminster.Net DavidHanna@westminster.net JDDeYonker@Westminster.Net JackKelley@westminster.net MadisonPumphrey@Westminster.Net JosephPowers@Westminster.Net DanielCurtis@Westminster.Net MiraySeward@Westminster.Net MadisonHufford@Westminster.Net DrewGilsdorf@Westminster.Net josephoenix@gmail.com AnnieHickey@Westminster.Net WillDurrett@Westminster.Net FarahSharis@Westminster.Net JackKidd@Westminster.Net GibbsCullen@Westminster.Net SebastianMuenchrath@Westminster.Net EvanOReilly@westminster.net

Assignment for Wednesday, February 17:

1. Prepare a typed,150 word printed draft of a place essay to read aloud in class. Use your freewrites, the excerpts you and your classmates selected, and your own good writer's sense in preparation of this assignment.


 * 2. If you missed Friday's class, you must initial the excerpt** on each of your classmates' Google Docs invite that you think has the has the most potential for development. You should initial 18 documents total (17 if Evan is still out).

Assignment for Monday, February 22nd.

1.Complete a 300-350 word draft of your place piece and email me a copy before Monday's class.

Assignment for Wednesday, February 24: 1. Invite collaborators from assigned group on to a Google Doc of your place draft. Highlight your collaborators' potential opening lines in green and potential concluding lines in red.

Assignment for Thursday, February 25:

1. Create an organizational design chart for your place piece on a posterboard. What is your central line?

Assignment for Friday, February 26: 1. Develop your place essay to 400 words (doesn't necessarily mean to just add 50 to the ending) and then create a new organizational chart on the same or a different posterboard. How has the added text developed or altered your organization?

Assignment for Monday, February 27:

1.Provide assigned feedback for Google Docs jigsaw exercise. First collaborator: How hard was rearrangment on a scale of 1-10? Explain your answer in 10-12 sentences and initial. Second collaborator: Respond to the first collaborator. Do you think the paragraph they have rearranged actually works from an organizational standpoint?

Assignment for Wed/Thurs: See following:

Assignment for Wed March 17:

1. 3 pages of freewriting about 2 portrait subjects (1.5 each).

Assignment for Thursday March 18: 1. 1.5 pages of freewriting in response to three details from the portrait cluster you completed in class.

Assignment for Friday March 19 1. Two pages of notebook response to one of the portrait prompts listed on "Portrait" menu option.

Assignment for Wednesday March 24 1. Click on the discussion tab on the wiki and followiinstructions for posting in response to Friday's in-class readings. 2. Choose one line from one of the two in-class freewrites you did on Monday and use it as the first line in a one -page free freewrite. 3. Be sure to bring your notbeooks to class on Wednesday!!! Peer reading!

Assignment for Thursday March 25 1. Create a Google Doc with 3 150 word excerpts chosen from portrait excerpts. Invite entire class as collaborators.

Assignment for Fri March 26 1. Print a hard copy of a 200-250 word portrait draft for peer review.

Assignment for Mon March 29 1. More peer reviews on Monday 2. Go to "Discussions" link on wiki menu. Then click on "Discussions" tab. Respond to one of your classmates initial posts from last week in 12-15 sentences. Quote your classmate and use at least on quote from the three "Writing True" portrait essays.

Assignment for Wed March 31 1. Read up to 54 in On Writing by Stephen King and highlight "portrait passages."

Assignment for Wed April 7 1. Read up to page 84 in Stephen King's memoir," On Writing" and continue to highlight "portrait passages." 2. Complete a 400-word draft of your portrait piece as a Google Doc

Assignment for Thursday April 8 1. Read up to page 137 in King memoir. Highlight "good writing" or "portraiture."

Assignment for Friday April 9: 1. On existing portrait google doc, rewrite first 100 words of your portrait using three different "voices." You will have three new 100-word beginnings to the portrait piece.

Assignment for Monday April 12: 1. Write another 400-word portrait in one of the alternative voices that you developed and save it on the same Google Doc.

Assignment for Wednesday April 14: 1. Revise your 400-word portrait. 2. Email me one grammar problem that you typically have.

Assignment for Thursday April 15: 1. Type out/ bring in a publication with a grammar error in it. 2. Continue developing your 400-word portrait.

Assignment for Friday April 16: 1. Create a new clean Google Doc with your most recently revised version of your 400 word portrait. 2. Invite your two partners as collaborators on this document (you do not need to invite me at this point)

Assignment for Monday April 19: 1. Print and read the following PDF file of these three very short stories: "Paring Knife," "Deportation at Breakfast," and "Night." After reading respond to the prompts on the new "SHORT FICTION" page found on the wiki menu to the right of the main page (the same place you find the link to this "assignments" page).When you get to the page, just click on the "EDIT" pencil in the upper right hand corner of the page and respond to the aforementioned prompts.



Assignment For Tuesday April 19:





FINAL PROJECT: