CRTW490 Winter 2014 April Revised Schedule

 *see class blog and EMU online for more detail and specific instructions

*make sure you are keeping up on your blogs, if you are missing any please make sure to go above and beyond before the semester ends…

 

April

1  In-Class: Juliana Spahr, The Transformation; in-class workshopping of projects

Annotated bibliography Final Due

8  Process and Reflection Paper Drafts Due * No exceptions, drafts due on paper to me in class; in-class workshopping of projects

15 Last Day of Class; Showcase practice in classroom (prepare 7-8 minute presentation of your project)

17 Showcase 5pm Halle Auditorium; final version of capstone project should be complete

Mon 4/21 : Turn in final versions of Process Paper, Reflection Paper, Capstone Project to my office; hard copies collected together

assignments and updates

Remember you are scheduled to go back into the 300 classes to discuss your project:

Wed., April 2, 3:30-5:00 (Jill's Class PH 320)

Informally present your Capstone Project (5-10 minutes: summarize and read a small part)

1. Lee                                    4. Sami

2. Ryan

3. Tiffany

Thur., April 3, 11-12:15 (Christine's Class 404 Pray Harrold)

Informally present your Capstone Project (5-10 minutes: summarize and read a small part)

1. Patrick

2. Trinady

3. Jason

Week of  3/25 you are meeting with your new groups to discuss the capstone project. PLEASE SEE WORKSHOP GUIDELINES ON EMU ONLINE FOR GIVING FEEDBACK AND GIVE EACH OTHER COPIES OF THE WORK TO BE DISCUSSED BEFORE MEETING.

4/1 Finish reading The Transformation and write up a 1 page discussion of what kinds of things you see "transforming" in the text from beginning to end, or write about 1-2 particular themes or elements that you see repeated/carried through the text and what effect that has on the whole, etc. You might do your discussion through a couple of specific examples or a particular passage/chapter/section that you can think about in relation to the whole. Focus on what you see an interesting and relevant in terms of the writing/construction of the text.

Also on 4/1 we will discuss selections from Capstone projects by Jason, Sami, and Lee. Documents will be available on EMU Online Friday3/28 to read and write comments and bring to class on 4/1.

On 4/8 we will "workshop" the rest of the projects.

The Showcase will be Thur 4/17 at 5pm.

Essay, Art, Poetics

Check out this short essay: http://www.twoseriousladies.org/from-narrative-nest-by-danielle-vogel/

and look at http://www.twoseriousladies.org as an online mag... it's super cool.

Sending out work

Submit here: http://riverandsouth.blogspot.com/p/guidelines.html

More on Making Books and Whatnot

Some links to work on the web:

 Dusie makes chapbooks available for download, and some of them are great collaborations of visual and textual material...

http://www.dusie.org/Dick%20Tracery.pdf

http://www.dusie.org/Reed%20Hastain%20post%20cards.pdf