Assignments

Major assignments/assessments include:

Journal/Writer’s Notebook Invitation and Your Writer’s Notebook (40) Final journal invitation posted to blog Feb. 24.

Individually Created Educational Blog (48 points)  Due APRIL 14 (Remember: In order to receive full credit, your responses must be posted before 9 p.m. on the night that precedes our class meetings. The idea is to engage in a dialogue. We cannot do this if people are posting last minute!!! Your response must also demonstrate in-depth, critical thought, be well-organized, and demonstrate considerable effort in order to receive full credit. )

Poems-Created By You (40 points) Free Verse, Acrostic, Found, Concrete and I POETRY (Final poems posted to blog by MARCH 10)

Poetry Writing Assignment and Analysis (75 points) Due APRIL 21

Multigenre Memoir Project (100 points) Due APRIL 21 LAST CLASS

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CLASS SCHEDULE:

• Class 1-Introduction to course, blogging, and Writer’s Notebook
• Class 2-Writer’s Notebook
• Class 3-Writer’s Notebook
• Class 4-Love That Poetry!
• Class 5-Formula Poetry
• Class 6-iPoem/Persona Poetry
• Class 7-Persona Poetry/Introducing Memoir
• Class 8-Memoir
• Class 9-Memoir/Multigenre Writing
• Class 10-Multigenre
• Class 11-Multigenre Memoir
• Class 12-Poetry Presentations/Multigenre Memoir Presentations