ENG 107 w/ Dr. DaMaris B. Hill

  Chapter 8- Creative Non-fiction Monday  READ PRIOR TO CLASS Journal writing - Braided essay Various essay forms Chapter 8-Creative Nonfiction The Essay and Creative Nonfiction Memoir and the Personal Essay Techniques of Creative Nonfiction  Fact and Truth Creative Nonfiction Format key words to know in this chapter identify five memories you would enjoy writing about  Wednesday -  READ PRIOR TO CLASS make sure that you read prior to class we will discuss your braided essay in more detail we will discuss what makes creative nonfiction a genre and a good focal point for writing Friday  review the draft of your braided essay or creative non-fiction piece revise and rewrite the braided essay in order to create your very best essay. 

  Go to page 197.  Read the "Developing a Draft" and rank the suggested revision methods.

  Observe the painting on the cover of this book. Free-associate a list of words it suggests to you. Then free write for ten minutes, anything that has occurred to you. Now compare it to the passage passage you wrote for the warm-up of Chapter 1 or first journal writing. Ask yourself, could you use this passage to enrich that earlier piece?

  Chapter 7- Development and Revision Wednesday 10/27 Observe the painting on the cover of this book. Free-associate a list of words it suggests to you. Then free write for ten minutes, anything that has occurred to you. Now compare it to the passage passage you wrote for the warm-up of Chapter 1 or first journal writing. Ask yourself, could you use this passage to enrich that earlier piece? Development and Revision-- Review Developing a draft  structure research revision editing the workshop key words to know in this chapter Friday 10/29 Last Friday (10/22),  you identified your best 3 writings. Please consider what revision techniques would be most helpful to develop your best writings.  Revise at least one of your writings and post the writing under the discussion thread.  Chapter 8- Creative Non-fiction   READ PRIOR TO CLASS

  10/22 Greetings, Class There is no physical meeting for class today. We spent the week discussing our individual progress in our 107 course.  Spend today’s class time revising your best journal assignments and implementing the skills that you learned from chapters 1-6 of our textbook.   If you have not completed the discussions from our Friday classes, you should also complete those assignments.  Your contributions will be factored into your participation and attendance calculations.  Monday and Tuesday are Fall Break. Enjoy your time off and we will meet on Wednesday.  Dr. Hill 

  Try This 6.10 (p. 190) Several of the poems in Chapter 6 of the textbook are also memoirs. All of them tell a story. Write a poem of no more than a dozen lines  with the title of one of the traditional tales below (or a tale of your choice).  Make it contemporary . Can you base it in your own experience? Beauty & the Beast The Ugly Duckling Mulan Baba Yaga (or Baba Jaga) Humpty Dumpty Noah's Ark Three Little Pigs Aladdin's Lamp The Little Mermaid The Snow Queen

  ENG 107 Conference Sheet  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKPAw1vteo7VMsTE4geeNMSal7rtUrjpT1dGCb41RL0/edit Your mid-semester conferences that are scheduled for 10/18 and 10/20 will be held via zoom at your scheduled time.  Please use your iPad or any digital device with zoom capabilities to conference with me. The zoom link is https://uky.zoom.us/j/82369678440?pwd=RlJNQlIyNVBZckxUMENBQ05vRmNUQT09 Password: 107uky Please select a conference time below.  This conference will count as your weekly attendance for 10/18-10/23. Please be prepared to discuss what writings you think are your best and which writings you might revise for the final portfolio. ENG 107 Conference Sheet

  The Hammock    Li-Young Lee ,   1957 Incarnations of Burned Children   David Foster Wallace

  from  http://hubpages.com/hub/Using-These-Words-Will-Help-You-Sound-Smart Please choose at least 3 key terms from Chapter 6  and define them using the book and then add a supplemental definition that you found while researching on the Internet. Post the definitions in comments box. These terms will help us during our class discussions of story. We will review the context of the words in our next class discussion. 

  Chapter 6 - Story 10/11 - Monday Write from memory about a moment that defined you.  Write about the moment you knew that you were not a kid anymore. This is writing should be at least 2 to 3 paragraphs. Story as-- a journey  a power struggle a connection and disconnection key words to know in this chapter 10/13 - Wednesday -  READ THESE PRIOR TO CLASS Li-Young Lee  "The Hammock" David Foster Wallace  "Incarnations of Burned Children" 10/15 - Friday  Digital work day  try this 6.10 10/18 - 10/20

  For inspiration, a few of my favorite poems about place / setting / community: "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop "Early December in Croton-on-Hudson" by Louise Gluck "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright excerpt from "Oil" by Fatimah Asghar

  Greeting, Class Complete the digital assignment in the discussion on canvas for class.  I will base your attendance on your posts and participation.  We will review the assignment on Monday. Complete Try This 5.1 on page 138 of your book Draw the floor plan of the first house you remember living in.  Take a mental tour through this house, pausing (and making on the floor plan) where significant events occurred.   Walk through again, making a list of these events. Pick one of them and write about it. Pay attention to the setting and the atmosphere of the event.   • How does your relation to the space, light, weather, walls, furniture, and objects affect what you are doing and feeling?  • Does the place represent safety of confinement?  In addition to this floor plan and a list, write at least 250-word piece about the first house. It may become a foundation for a story later in our class. The writing may be longer than 300 words if ...

  Setting as Character - revise your paragraph about your favorite place. What is your setting's: desire image(s) voice action thought(s) conflicts

   Make a list  or write a paragraph about the setting at Stephen King's house on Halloween? 

We have been discussing setting.  How to create a setting? How to personify a setting? We have been considering setting as the world, as a camera, as mood and symbol, and as action. As we explore Sherman Alexie "At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School", consider the setting. (154) The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian  

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  Take 10 minutes and begin to write about the scariest  or loveliest place you know.  The place can be real or fictional. Our writing emphasis is on describing the place - precisely. or Warm Up page 135 of the book

  Let's read the opening pages of Toni Morrison's novel  Beloved.   Continue reading  Beloved   here

  https://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Writing-4th-Janet-Burroway/dp/0134053249 Monday 10/4 Review of Chapter 4 - What folk hero did you create journal - write about the scariest or loveliest place you know. If this proves difficult, do the  Warm Up page 135 Chapter 5: Setting (very dependent on image and description)  as the world (137) as the camera (141) as mood and symbol (144) as action (146) Toni Morrison "124" in  Beloved Wednesday 10/6 Sherman Alexie page pg 154   Friday 10/8 writing and reflection (5.1) page 138