Kristine Chalifoux
CREATIVE WRITING
Raleigh Charter High School

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"'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

Spring Semester

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
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"
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"
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)
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
October 3	Flex
October 6	Imagery	Imagery Dubie "Hummingbirds" Hass "On The Coast
October 7	Lab, workshop prep
October 8	workshop Jennifer
October 9 - 10	No school
October 13	Imagery	"Dover Beach" "Snakes" Departure"
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.poetry.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)
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		short story
Dec 9	listen to Stein		2nd short story due (10 pages for the term)
Dec 10	Lab	Revision
Dec 11	work time
Dec 12	work time
Dec 15	Course evaluation
Dec 18	Presentations		Portfolios DUE
Spring Semester
Date	Class Activity	Homework	What's due	Links
Jan 6	The sonnet	Strand pp. 55-60
Jan 7	Sonnets	S trand pp. 61-62
Jan 8	Sonnet	Strand pp. 63-64
Jan 9	Scansion		Short story due for RFS must be turned in on-line
Jan 12	Scansion	Strand: pp. 65-70 Choose one for analysis	Workshop material due
Jan 13	sonnets	sonnet exercise	Analysis due
Jan 14	workshop prep	sonnet exercise
Jan 15	Workshop	sonnet exercise
Jan 16	Interdisciplinary flex
Jan 19	Holiday
Jan 20	snow day		Sonnets due for small group
Jan 21	snow day
Jan 22	workshop/small group for sonnets
Jan 23	Workshop prep/small group
Sat Jan 24	Shapiro reading
Jan 26	Workshop	sonnets
Jan 27	Villanelle/Reading		Sonnets due
Jan 28	Villanelle
Jan 29	Ex day fun !
Jan 30	No class
Feb. 2	Villanelle		Analysis due
Feb 3	Small group workshop		Villanelle for small group
Feb.4	workshop prep
Feb. 5	workshop
Feb. 6	Flex
Feb 9	Reading Villanelles		Villanelle due
Feb 10	Blank verse/heroic couplets
Feb 11	Workshop prep		couplets/quatrains due
Feb 12	Workshop
Feb 13	Flex
Feb 16	Holiday
Feb 17	Sestina
Feb 18	Odes		Analysis due
Feb 19	Workshop prep
Feb 20	Workshop
Feb 23	Prose poems
Feb 24	Strand/open forms
Feb 25	lab day		Ode or Sestina due
Feb 26	workshop prep
Feb 27	workshop
March 2	Strand/open forms
March 3	lab day
March 4	Strand/open forms		Analysis due (open forms)
March 5	Workshop prep
March 6	Workshop
March 9	Small group workshop
March 10
March 11
March 12
March 13	exercise		Poetry chapter due
March 16	teacher workday
March 17	Workshop prep
March 18	Workshop
March 19	Ex day	small group workshop	draft short story due
March 20	no class
March 23	Visiting writer
March 24	Visiting writer
March 25	Exercise
March 26	Visiting Writer
March 27	Visiting Writer
March 30	Submission info Feedback		Workshop materials due
March 31	Lab: zines
April 1				Magazine links: http://www.cannylink.com/magazinesliterature.htm#High%20School www.pw.org
April 2	Workshop prep
April 3	Workshop
April 13	Teacher workday
April 14	First person narratives
April 15	Workshop prep
April 16	Workshop		first person paragrahs due
April 17	Service workday
April 20	Madison Smartt Bell " A Small Blue Thing"		Small Blue
April 21	Workshop prep		Small Blue
April 22	Workshop		Small Blue
April 23	Fun! Submissions!		Submission Assignment due
April 24	no class, ex day
April 27	Nature and Aim of Fiction	Short story	Small Blue Thing exercise due
April 28	Writing With The Body	short story
April 29	Workshop prep
April 30	Workshop
May 1	Teacher Planning
May 4	Small group workshop		final short story due for small group
May 5	small group workshop
May 6	Why I Write
May 7	Workshop prep
May 8	Workshop
May 11	Why I Write
May 12	Workshop prep
May 13	workshop
May 14	Workshop prep
May 15	Workshop
May 18	Workshop prep
May 19	Workshop
May 20	Lab: Portfolios
May 21	Workshop prep
May 22	Workshop
			Portfolios due May 28