(The) Writer's Mind: Daily Schedule for Unit 3,
The Memento Project (weeks 7-11)
Week 7
Tuesday, March 1
Experimenting with new sentence types from Copy and Compose
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Notebook Work:
For the Memento Project:
Begin developing your Network of Conversations
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Thursday, March 3
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Notebook work:
For the Memento Project:
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Week 8
Tuesday, March 8
Recommended reading: Culler's "Story and Discourse."
Workshop 2nd recent narrative and 1st success narrative.
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Prepare 2nd success narrative to workshop in Thursday's class.
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Thursday, March 10
Workshop 2nd success narratives.
Assign fifth round of provocations to be posted by Tuesday following spring break.
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Spring Break (March 14-18)
Week 9
Tuesday, March 22
Workshop first "cause" narrative.
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Complete your Network of Conversations.
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Thursday, March 24
Workshop second "cause" narrative.
Assign sixth round of provocations to be posted by Tuesday.
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For both "cause" narratives, amplify and bring out the successes that resulted from the emergence of the strength, and reveal the "bite" of the strength.
Compose your first draft of the "combination" narrative (recent event, success, and cause narratives).
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Week 10
Tuesday, March 29
Read:
"Cinema of the Mind" by Robert Olen Butler.
"Cinema of the Mind" by Robert Olen Butler.
Workshop your first full draft of the "combination" narrative (recent event plus revised "cause" narrative).
During the workshop, value graph your narrative:
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Develop second draft of "combination" narrative that also incorporates successes and the "bite" of the strength.
Thursday, March 31
Workshop second draft of "combination" narrative that also incorporates successes and the "bite" of the strength.
Develop third draft of "combination" narrative to include reflective voice that explores meaning of the strength, its blessings and curses, its formation, etc.
Week 11
Tuesday, April 5
Workshop third draft of "combination" narrative.
Thursday, April 7
Plan for the lyric essay:
After reading chapter 10 from Tell It Slant, reflect on exercises 7, 8, 10, 14, and 15. Write a brief reflective proposal concerning how you might revise your "combination" narrative to participate in the "lyric" genre. Explain what you think writing in the lyric genre is and how the exercises offered might aid you in making such a move with your own essay. Think through (on the page) each exercise, and speculate how it might work. Focus on what strategies feel the most promising to you. Write out what it might look like to revise your paper. How will writing it this way bring your essay closer to the lyric genre? How will doing so challenge you as a writer? |
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Practice writing 30 or more of these sentence types using content from your "combination" narrative.
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Assign seventh round of provocations to be posted by Tuesday.