ENG 227 COURSE CALENDAR – FALL 2018

Week 1 8.20 Introductions | Syllabus and Learning Outcomes (Signing Up for

Workshops) | Reading as a Writer, Writing as a Writer
8.22 Craft | Workshop | Genre | Blogs
Reading due: intro to craft text
Week 2 8.27 Begin Unit 1: Poetry | The Terminology of Poetics | Close Reading
Writing Due: Prompt 1
Reading Due: The Verging Cities, p. 1-37
8.29 Voice and Imagery in Poetry
Reading Due: The Verging Cities, p. 38-end
Online Feedback Due
Week 3 9.3 No Class - Labor Day
9.5 Line and Stanza, Meter and Rhyme | Workshop 1
Reading Due: Excerpts from Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and
Whereas
Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Week 4 9.10 Poetic Forms 1 | Workshop 2
Writing Due: Prompt 2
Workshop Feedback Due
9.12 Poetic Forms 2 | Workshop 3
Reading Due: Excerpts from Senegal Taxi and Drift
Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Week 5 9.17 Hybrid Forms | Workshop 4
Writing Due: Prompt 3
Workshop Feedback Due
9.29 Electronic Forms | Workshop 5
Reading Due: Excerpt from If the Tabloids Are True, What Are You?
(link on ReggieNet) and “What Is Comics Poetry?”
Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Week 6 9.24 Begin Unit 2: Creative Non-Fiction
Writing Due: Prompt 4
Reading Due: intro to cnf craft
9.26 The Art of the Essay
Reading Due: “Arrival Gates,” “Thing With Feathers That Perches in
the Soul,” and “A Man and His Cat”
Week 7 10.1 Flash Non-Fiction
Writing Due: Prompt 5
Reading Due: Excerpts from Brevity
10.3 The Hermit Crab Essay
Reading Due: “The Shared Space” and “A List of Concerns”
Week 8 10.8 The Personal Essay
Writing Due: Prompt 6
Reading Due: “Other Rooms” and “What Was True Then”
10.10 Small-Group Workshop
 Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Week 9 10.15 The Lyric Essay
Writing Due: Prompt 7
Reading Due: Excerpts from Bluets, Citizen, and Don’t Let Me Be
Lonely
10.17 Paired Workshop (Hannah gone, meet with your partner between
10.15 and 10.23)
Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Week 10 10.22 Begin Unit 3: Fiction
Writing Due: Prompt 8
Reading Due: Exit West, p. 1-100
10.24 The Art of the Story
Reading Due: Exit West, p. 101-end
Week 11 10.29 Writing Characters
Writing Due: Prompt 9
Reading Due: “Christina the Astonishing”
10.31 Flash Fiction
Reading Due: “The Story of an Hour,” excerpts from Wait Till You
See Me Dance
Week 12 11.5 Writing Plot / Place
Writing Due: Prompt 10
Reading Due: “Sh’kohl”
11.7 Small-Group Workshop
Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Week 13 11.12 Writing Experience / Connection
Writing Due: Prompt 11
Reading Due: Excerpt from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
11.14 Paired Workshop (possible meet-on-your-own day, TBD)
Online & Workshop Feedback Due
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 11.26 Revision Strategies – Guest Lecturer!
Reading Due: revision text
11.28 Revision Strategies
Writing Due: Initial Revision of a piece from Units 1, 2, or 3
Week 15 12.3 Publication | Visiting ISU’s Publication Unit
12.5 Class Reading (Location TBA)
Finals 12.11 Final Revised Portfolio Due
Week Tues