Creative Writing Assignments - Term 2 Click on the links to access materials and resources
Writer's Journal
All exercises must be completed. If you miss class you're responsible for having your journal up to date.
All exercises must be completed. If you miss class you're responsible for having your journal up to date.
Piece #2 - Genre Flash Fiction - max. 1000 word story
How to write flash fiction link; and this one, and here from The Guardian online.
Examples published in The New Yorker online; read more online at commaful.com, this website for flash fiction online, and this Twitter feed. As well as the online mag Smoke Long Quarterly.
Examples handed out in class published in the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman."Half Sleep" by Matt Krampitz; "History" by Beth Alvarado; "The Flowers" by Alice Walker; and, "Between Practice and Perfection" by Azizat Danmole.
Dec. 17 - typed rough draft for peer review on content, sense, genre and flow; working in class to edit to length and not sacrifice the narrative
Dec. 19 - revising and working on laptops to finalize the story and submit for Sauve feedback
Jan. 8 - start brainstorming for magazine
Jan. 10 - Sauve's feedback review and revise
Jan. 14 - Next draft due for final rounds of peer- and self-review
Jan. 16 - GC due, with peer reviewed RC, Sauve reviewed RC, and completed review sheet/checklist
How to write flash fiction link; and this one, and here from The Guardian online.
Examples published in The New Yorker online; read more online at commaful.com, this website for flash fiction online, and this Twitter feed. As well as the online mag Smoke Long Quarterly.
Examples handed out in class published in the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman."Half Sleep" by Matt Krampitz; "History" by Beth Alvarado; "The Flowers" by Alice Walker; and, "Between Practice and Perfection" by Azizat Danmole.
Dec. 17 - typed rough draft for peer review on content, sense, genre and flow; working in class to edit to length and not sacrifice the narrative
Dec. 19 - revising and working on laptops to finalize the story and submit for Sauve feedback
Jan. 8 - start brainstorming for magazine
Jan. 10 - Sauve's feedback review and revise
Jan. 14 - Next draft due for final rounds of peer- and self-review
Jan. 16 - GC due, with peer reviewed RC, Sauve reviewed RC, and completed review sheet/checklist
Piece #1 - Article on something you're good at, know a lot about. (assignment checklist here)
Using Brad Herzog's article "The Writer's Life" as the inspiration, make a list of things you know well or are good at (can be facetious). See the following models of this type of article: "The Confidence Game: how to play like a winner" by Mary M. Mitchell published in the Montreal Gazette, "Full Stop: Can you even imagine not buying any new clothes for a whole year?" by Anna Shepard published in Elle magazine; "Superheroes teach our kids the wrong message" by Craig and Marc Kielburger published in the Montreal Gazette; and, "An Open Book" by Katherine Heing published in O Magazine.
Nov. 18 - by the end of class have a full typed draft of your essay. See Ms. Sauvé's example. Here are some tips on rhetoric (ethos, logos, and pathos) to be persuasive; and another
Nov. 20 - round 1 peer- and self- review for content of typed essay. See Ms. Sauvé's peer-reviewed and self-revised version here with annotations. Make sure you are noting where you have appealed to ethos, logos, and pathos. Revise your content and print a new draft for next class. On this draft you highlight all the literary techniques you have used. See Sauvé's revised and annotated version with literary techniques here.
Nov. 27 - round 2 peer- and self- review for rhetorical devices, voice and flow of article formatted version. Then revise this version to create the good copy. See Sauvé's revised version based on this.
You have two choices for formatting: web-scrolling format (See Sauvé's final good copy example) or magazine/print format (See Sauvé's clean good copy example)
Dec. 2 - GC due (with article formatted draft peer- and self-reviewed; revised draft with literary techniques labelled; draft with peer- and self- review with annotations for ethos, logos,and pathos; checklist last, filled out.
Using Brad Herzog's article "The Writer's Life" as the inspiration, make a list of things you know well or are good at (can be facetious). See the following models of this type of article: "The Confidence Game: how to play like a winner" by Mary M. Mitchell published in the Montreal Gazette, "Full Stop: Can you even imagine not buying any new clothes for a whole year?" by Anna Shepard published in Elle magazine; "Superheroes teach our kids the wrong message" by Craig and Marc Kielburger published in the Montreal Gazette; and, "An Open Book" by Katherine Heing published in O Magazine.
Nov. 18 - by the end of class have a full typed draft of your essay. See Ms. Sauvé's example. Here are some tips on rhetoric (ethos, logos, and pathos) to be persuasive; and another
Nov. 20 - round 1 peer- and self- review for content of typed essay. See Ms. Sauvé's peer-reviewed and self-revised version here with annotations. Make sure you are noting where you have appealed to ethos, logos, and pathos. Revise your content and print a new draft for next class. On this draft you highlight all the literary techniques you have used. See Sauvé's revised and annotated version with literary techniques here.
Nov. 27 - round 2 peer- and self- review for rhetorical devices, voice and flow of article formatted version. Then revise this version to create the good copy. See Sauvé's revised version based on this.
You have two choices for formatting: web-scrolling format (See Sauvé's final good copy example) or magazine/print format (See Sauvé's clean good copy example)
Dec. 2 - GC due (with article formatted draft peer- and self-reviewed; revised draft with literary techniques labelled; draft with peer- and self- review with annotations for ethos, logos,and pathos; checklist last, filled out.