Kristine Chalifoux
CREATIVE WRITING
Raleigh Charter High School
"'What is not said, tends to nonexistence.' It's astonishing to think
about the mutitude of
eventsin the twentieth century and about the people
taking part in them, and to realize that every one
of thosesituations deserved
an epic, a tragedy, or a lyric poem. But nothing -- they sank, leaving only
a faint
trace. One can say that even the most powerful, full-bloodied, active
personality is hardly a shadow compared
to a few well-chosen words, even
if they describe no more than the rising moon."
-- Czeslaw Milosz
Grades
Syllabus
Workshops
| Date | Class Activity | Homework | What's due | Links |
| August 12 | Book sale | |||
| August 13 | Getting To Know You | Journal* | ||
| August 14 | The Writing LIfe | |||
| August 15 | Annie Dillard | Francine Prose pp. 1 -12 "Close Reading" | Signed parent and student contracts due | |
| August 18 | elements of short fiction | Updike's "A & P" | Updike: Salon
interview; Academy of American poets interview |
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| August 19 | character exersice | analysis | ||
| August 20 | A & P | Prose pp. 109-130 "Character" | analysis | |
| August 21 | character exercise |
Prose pp 130-141 "Character" | Anne Beattie Interview | |
| August 22 | character, discuss exercise, Prose | T.C. Boye, excerpts | ||
| August 25 | Character | dialogue assignment | ||
| August 26 | dialogue | Prose pp. 132-166 "Dialogue" | ||
| August 27 | dialogue | Carver "What We Talk About" |
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| August 28 | Carver, "What We Talk About" | Prose pp. 166-192 "Dialogue" | Brett Easton Ellis audio clips | |
| August 29 | lab day | dialogue | ||
| *please note that five journal pages in your composition notebooks are required each week. | ||||
| Date | Class Activity | Homework | What's due | |
| September 1 | holiday | |||
| September 2 | lab day | analysis/Carver | interview with Madison Smartt Bell | |
| Septebmer 3 | analysis | |||
| September 4 | ex day: reading day and workshop, small group | writing piece for small group workshop | ||
| September 5 | no class | |||
| September 8 | small group workshop | Story and journal (througout) | ||
| September 9 | Setting: Read from Ethan Frome | |||
| September 10 | Setting, "Araby" | Scribner: pp. 22-32 Rick Bass "The Hermit's Story" |
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| September 11 | Discuss Scribner | |||
| September 12 | setting writing exercise | |||
| September 15 | ||||
| September 16 | Scribner: "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" Analysis |
short story #1 due (five pages minimum) |
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| September 17 | Analysis due "Jealous Husband" | |||
| September 18 | Mock workshop | |||
| September 19 | EOG, Lab day, workshop prep | |||
| September 22 | Teacher workday | |||
| September 23 | Workshop Stacy and Mary |
Amy Clampitt, "Fog." and E.A. Poe "Annabel Lee) | ||
| September 24 | Workshop? words |
Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," and "Leda and the Swan." | ||
| September 25 | sound elements | |||
| September 26 | Flex | |||
| Septmember 29 | Sound elements | Frost "Birches" | ||
| September 30 | workshop prep | Analysis | ||
| October 1 | "Birches" | Analysis Due "Birches" | ||
| October 2 | Workshop Trey and Roxie |
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| October 3 | Flex | |||
| October 6 | Imagery | Imagery Dubie "Hummingbirds" Hass "On The Coast |
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| October 7 | Lab, workshop prep | |||
| October 8 | workshop Jennifer |
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| October 9 - 10 | No school | |||
| October 13 | Imagery | "Dover Beach" "Snakes" Departure" |
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| October 14 | Simile, Metaphor | Voice: Plath, Espada, June Jordan | 40 lines of poetry due | |
| October 15 | PSAT | |||
| October 16 | Voice | Poem revision | ||
| October 17 | Lab: workday | |||
| October 20 | Small group workshop | 5 poems | Revised poem for workshop due (3 copies) | http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ http://poets.org/ www.poetry outloud.org |
| October 21 | Small group workshop | 5 poems | ||
| October 22 | workshop prep | poems due | ||
| October 23 | Workshop: Ali, Joe, Sarah | |||
| October 24 | no class, ex day | |||
| October 27 | Matthews/Dubie Auden/Troupe (listen) |
Dubie "The Boy Breughal" Sexton "Snow White" Kiser "On a Line from Valery" Kenyon "Dutch Interiors" O'Hara "The Day Lady Died" |
www.poeetry.org | |
| October 28 | Allusion, con't | analysis | ||
| October 29 | prep for workshop | Analysis | ||
| October 30 | Workday (lab) | |||
| October 31 | Workshop (Mills, Price) | |||
| November 3 | prep for workshop | |||
| November 4 | workshop (Kempton, Malcolm) | |||
| November 5 | Stanza exercise | |||
| November 6 | 40 lines of poetry due (one poem for comments) |
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| November 7 | prep for workshop | |||
| November 12 | workshop (Etororon, Morris) | Two versions of the same story, one true, one what should have happened | ||
| November 13 | Workshop (Coker, Wright) | |||
| November 14 | Community workday | |||
| November 17 | Prose "Sentences" | Two versions of story | ||
| Nov. 18 | what makes a story powerful? | Ron Hanson "Wicked" | Two versions due | |
| Nov. 19 | Wicked | Analysis | ||
| Nov. 20 | Workshop prep | Analysis due | ||
| Nov. 21 | Poetry workshop | |||
| Nov. 24 | Poetry workshop | |||
| Nov. 25 | Lab | drafts for small group due | ||
| Dec 1 | Small group | |||
| Dec 2 | Small group | |||
| Dec 3 | Creating scenes and characters | |||
| Dec 4 | ex day: Mystery game | |||
| Dec 5 | no class ex days | |||
| Dec 8 | Prose, "Paragraphs" | |||
| Dec 9 | paragraphs listen to Stein | 2nd short story due (10 pages for the term) | ||
| Dec 10 | Lab | Analysis due | ||
| Dec 11 | ||||
| Dec 12 | ||||
| Dec 15 | Course evaluation | |||
| Dec 18 | MIDTERMS DUE | |||