Reading and Assignment Schedule

Creative Nonfiction – Spring 2005

            Assignments are to be done for the day on which they are listed. This schedule is subject to change; if it does I will let you know as soon as possible.

For Monday Jan. 23  Have read  : Tony Earley "Somehow Form a Family"  p.17; Lucy Grealy, "Mirrorings" p.23  Tracy Kidder, P. 67 "Making the Truth Believable".

Bring in 2-3 pages of instances.

For Wednesday, Jan.25 read p.43, JE Wideman's  "Brothers and Keepers".  Begin the first essay with a detailed memory.

Monday Jan. 30: Have read: P. 160 David Sedaris article, and Philip Lopate's article on making the first person a character (don't have the book here to provide page number, but it's in the first section.

Wed. Feb.1: Bring in your excerpt from chosen author illustrating their voice/technque

Mon. Feb. 6: A draft (beginning to end) of your memoir/personal essay.

Wed. Feb. 8: We will work with Wideman (p.43) and McCann's "The Resurrectionist" p.223)

MONDAY: First draft workshop: we will  respond (orally, and in writing) to drafts turned in last week. If you don't come your draft won't be critiqued!

Wednesday Feb. 15: We will work on responding to critique and revising.

Monday Feb.27 Introduction to profile/reportage

Wednesday March 1 Conferences for those who didn't have them last Wednesday--no class

Monday March 6  Have Read: "Yeager" by Tom Wolfe. p.59   "Meet the Shaggs" by Susan Orlean p.52Bring in four instances that reflect on four different persons/places.

Monday March 27: If you were absent on the Wednesday before break, you have a quiz today. Also, a draft of your profile/reportage should be ready by Wednesday March 29. Bring in whatever you have today.

Wednesday March 20 Give me  a complete draft of your profile, if you did not on Monday.

Monday April 3: Have read p.325 Michael Herr's "Illumination Rounds" and p. 136 Vivian Gornick's "the Situation and the Story."

Wed. April 5 Have read all the drafts for your group.

Monday April 24--draft of your place/travel/history paper. We will be attending the Holocaust Survivor lecture

May 1: Here is the text of your reflection assignment:

May 3: Have read "Final Cut" by Atul Gawande 245

May 8: Have Read "Two or Three Things I Know For Sure" by Dorothy Allison