ENG 107 w/ Dr. DaMaris B. Hill

  If you would like to schedule a conference about your portfolio or digital reading, please email me. MONDAY, DEC 6  CLASS DAY  FOR QUESTIONS, PORTFOLIO INSIGHT, AND TECHNICAL ADVICE WEDNESDAY - DEC 8  DIGITAL WORK DAY  - Please work with classmates and others to record your reading and load the reading up to youtube or vimeo. Create  a link that leads to a 2-10 minute recording of you reading a portion of your original work.  You might find these resources helpful in learning how to record on your phone or tablet.  HOW TO CAPTURE AND RECORD AN IPHONE OR IPAD SCREEN VIDEO?        HOW TO RECORD A VIDEO OF YOUR SCREEN ON ANDROID How to Upload a Video to YouTube

  Consider the aforementioned.  Write about yourself or a someone you know very well.  Decide if you are going to write about them in context of your/their life's accomplishments, your/their practicality or your/their deviance.  Use one form from the previous  list of 50 forms  to enhance your writing.  Also incorporate  poetic devices . Remember each stanza is a room or scene, build something beautiful.  Think about our discussions of  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"  to inspire your exploration. 

  From   " List of 50 Poetic Forms for Poets"  By:   Robert Lee Brewer   |   August 4, 2014 Abstract (or Sound) Poetry . Abstract was a term used by Dame Edith Sitwell. Acrostic . A form for hidden messages. Alphabet Poetry . Perfect back-to-school poetry. Anagrammatic Poetry . More fun with letters. The Blitz . 50-liner invented by Robert Keim. The Bop . Three stanzas and three refrains, developed by Afaa Michael Weaver. Bref Double . French quatorzain. Cascade . Variable length form invented by Udit Bhatia. Chant . If it works once, run it into the ground. Cinquain . Popular five-liner. Concrete Poems . Shapely poetry. Elegy . Song of sorrow or mourning. Epitaphs . Or tombstone poetics. The Fib . Fun form from Gregory K. Pincus. Found Poetry . Finders keepers, right? Ghazal . Couplets and a refrain. Golden Shovel . Terrance Hayes-invented, Gwendolyn Brooks-inspired. Gwawdodyn . Welsh poetic form. Haibun . Japanese form popularized by Matsuo Basho. Haiku ....

  Where I'm From As Kentucky's 2015-2016 poet laureate, George Ella wants to collect a "Where I'm From" poem  from every county in Kentucky .  Kentucky’s ‘Where I’m From’: A Poetry of Place” is the central theme of a project that will touch all 120 of Kentucky’s counties. Find more information, and how to submit poems,  on the Kentucky Arts Council website .      http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I'm From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.  I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,           from Imogene and Alafair. I'm from the know-it-alls           and the pass-it-ons, from Perk up! and Pipe down! I'm from He restoreth my soul  ...

Chapter 10- Poetry Monday  Teaching Evaluations - please complete by December 5, 2021 Expectations for the rest of the semester  (Links to an external site.) " Where I'm From  (Links to an external site.) " Poetic Forms  (Links to an external site.) Chapter 10-Poetry 297-317 Formal and Free Verse Working with Sound The Poetic Line  Imagery, Connotation, and Metaphor Density and Intensity Finding the Poem key words to know in this chapter Homework: Compose 1-2 original poems and bring three copies of each poem into class for workshopping on Wednesday, December 1, 2021.  Wednesday - READ PRIOR TO CLASS Bring in 1-2 original poems and bring three copies of each poem into class for workshopping on Wednesday, December 1, 2021.  Be prepared to analyze your peers work in the context of poetic craft. Tombstone, Menu,  or Menace  (Links to an external site.)  - some poetic explorations Friday  revise the draft of your...

  Expectations for the rest of the semester Final Portfolio for UK ENG 107 Overall Task: Create a creative writing portfolio. It should include: 1.     5-6 pages of original creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry submitted to your Dr. Hill using canvas, A  link that leads to a 2-5 minute recording of you reading a portion of your original work.  You might find these resources helpful in learning how to record on your phone or tablet.  The draft and practice recording link should be posted to the blog on Dec. 3, 2021      HOW TO CAPTURE AND RECORD AN IPHONE OR IPAD SCREEN VIDEO?        HOW TO RECORD A VIDEO OF YOUR SCREEN ON ANDROID Final Portfolio Tips: If you do not have the equipment to record your reading, equipment and IT services/ digital assistance can be found at  The Hub @ WT's - Services Your final composition may be connected to your original writings, but doesn’t have to be.   During class w...

  Friday  Try This 9.5 (page 267) Find a place in your story where you either do or could use a flashback.  Instead use your journal for exploring background.   Write down everything, fast.  Then take a hard look at it to decide just how little of it you can use... How much of it the reader can infer?  How you can sharpen an image to imply a past incident or condense an emotion in a line of dialogue? 

  Monday, November 22, 2021 is a digital workday.  We will continue to explore the literary arts associated with creating fiction works.  I want this fiction piece of 1.5-2 (double spaced) pages to be some sort of  fanfiction .  You can re-write or extend a familiar piece of literary fiction, fairytale, or film.  If you are unsure what to write, you may write a fictional story about Thanksgiving.   Use what you learned from reading the chapter on fiction and lectures on  "suppose...what if" scenarios.  Also remember the insights from other chapters about voice, setting, tone, and ect.    Please submit these fiction stories via by 5:00pm on Tuesday, November 23, 2021. 

  ***Write an outline  for your fiction story using the therefore/except method. (If your story is too personal to share, you may write a therefore/except outline for one of the fiction stories in the textbook). ***Please  read Chapter 10  in the textbook and be ready to discuss poetry the next time we meet in class on 11/22.

  How to Use WHAT IF, SUPPOSE, SUPPOSING? Come up with 5 Suppose/What If Scenarios Choose ONE that you will expand & work with in Wednesday's class

  Try This 9.1 By now you have from your journal entries an idea for a short story. Take 15 minutes to list all the events of this story in their chronological order. List everything we will need to know in order to make sene of it.   If Seth's fear of water results from the time his cruel half brother held him under when he was five - and we need to know this in order to understand why he wont go out in a boat at twenty - then list the bullying incident in its chronological place.  Find the item exactly halfway down your list.  Write the first paragraph of your story, beginning there.  Take the last item on your list. Write the first paragraph of the story beginning it there.  Pick the right item on your list for the beginning of the story. Try these: Begin with a line of dialogue.  Begin with an action. Begin with an image of danger. Begin with the weather. Begin with the protagonist's thought. Begin with a long shot. Begin with a close up....

  from  http://hubpages.com/hub/Using-These-Words-Will-Help-You-Sound-Smart Please choose at least 2  key terms from Chapter 9  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.  story plot summary scene backstory flashback text subtext

Chapter 9- Fiction Monday  -  READ PRIOR TO CLASS Try This 9.1 By now you have from your journal entries an idea for a short story. Take 15 minutes to list all the events of this story in their chronological order. List everything we will need to know in order to make sene of it.   If Seth's fear of water results from the time his cruel half brother held him under when he was five - and we need to know this in order to understand why he wont go out in a boat at twenty - then list the bullying incident in its chronological place.  Find the item exactly halfway down your list.  Write the first paragraph of your story, beginning there.  Take the last item on your list. Write the first paragraph of the story beginning it there.  Pick the right item on your list for the beginning of the story. Try these: Begin with a line of dialogue.  Begin with an action. Begin with an image of danger. Begin with the weather. Begin with the protagonist's thought...

  Take the manuscript you worked on Try This 9.1. Toss out page 1. Try beginning with the first whole paragraph on page 2. Doesn't work? Then : Print out (or digitally separate) the first three pages of your story. Put them side by side and start cutting --a descriptive phrase here, a line of dialogue there. Do away with a flashback, an adjective, a dialogue tag.  How much can you do without and still begin the story? Can you condense the first three pages to a half-page paragraph?

  11/12 Greetings, Students. This week, we have been studying the creative non-fiction genre. We have taken a minute to look at  Ellen Forney 's memoir Marbles.   Also, you identified a memory that you wanted to write about and began a braided essay. https://107uky.blogspot.com/2021/11/try-this-89.html  .You have also been writing a memoir essay about a villain in your life or something you are afraid of. https://107uky.blogspot.com/2021/11/how-to-put-your-memoir-into-storyboard.html Review a draft of either memoir essay or creative non-fiction piece Please consider what revision techniques take place when the essay is articulated in a storyboard or comic strip Please continue to work on either of your memoir assignments to make it your best. You may complete the draft of comic  and post in the assignments (link or docs) on UKy Canvas  OR You may complete the draft of the braided essay and post it in the assignment space on UKy Canvas In the d...

  The 10 Best Storyboarding Software of 2021 for Any Budget -  https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/storyboard-software 

  https://marblesbyellenforney.com Going 'Marbles': From Manic Highs To Oceanic Lows excerpt Think about your essay about a person you don't like or are afraid of.   Chart this essay using the storyboard template.  Use 6 - 8 storyboards to  tell your essay.   Be sure to post what you learned about the essay in the comments box.  The 10 Best storyboarding software -  https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/storyboard-software

  Draft an anonymous memoir about a person you hate or a person you are afraid of. Work with a peer to make your essay better.  This conversation will be a guide for revision.  Consider: 1. Cause and effect relationships.  What is the cause for the discontent?  What was the effect? 2.  What are the immediate consequences of this negative relationship?  How does the relationship immediately effect your thoughts and behaviors as the main character of this story? 3.  What are the long term consequences of this negative relationship?  What is "really" at stake?  What could ultimately go wrong?   4. Why should the reader of this piece invest their time and energy in this work? 5. Why should we care and why do we care?

Try This 8.9 (page 237) Write an anonymous memoir about someone you dislike or someone you are afraid of.  The surer you are that nobody is going to know who wrote it, the freer you are to write; but also -strangely-the more freely you write, the less likely anybody is to know who wrote it.  You have angers and fears that nobody has ever suspected,  right? Write. 

  Chapter 8- Creative Non-fiction Monday  Try This 8.9 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 Homework:  Compose a sample of non fiction writing of 1-2 pages long about a person you don't like or it can be rooted in one of the 5 non-fiction/memoir topics you chose Wednesday -  READ PRIOR TO CLASS Compose a sample of non fiction writing 3-5 pages long about a person you don't like or it can be rooted in one of the 5 non-fiction/memoir topics you chose Friday  meet in sections for workshop bring the draft of your creative nonfiction essay or memoir piece bring enough printed copies for your small groups

A Brief Guide to Essays August 1, 2017  §  26 Comments The time will come when our students, or our mother (in an attempt to seem interested for real and not just because it’s her kid) will ask about essays. “Well, dear,” she might say, “I think it’s lovely.   But what do you mean by lyric? Or perhaps we will want to write a braided essay, or a collage, without really grasping what, exactly that is. We’ll realize it’s been a while since we were in a workshop and nobody else has the notes, and strongly consider retreating to a nice orderly sonnet. Fourteen lines and a whole four classical rhyme schemes to choose from. Go nuts!  It is for these moments that   Brevity   presents our Brief Guide to Essays: Lyric They are all lyric, these categories of essays in literary journals and finer mass-media publications and the occasional feminist website. Built on images, using poetic tools like metaphor to evoke feeling in the reader. What’s also important is the bla...