Schedule+Sept.+11+-+Oct.+11


 * Tentative Schedule: University Honors 121-008– Legacy of the Storyteller Session I, Sept. 11 – Oct 11 **

Topics: fiction/nonfiction, place, description, narration, dialogue, situation, plot || King, Flaherty Strunk and White || //Reading// //is writing in reverse// || Elements of Narrative (continued) – Topics: plot and situation, voice, POV || Ursula Leguin, Natalie Angier, Michael Thomas E.Abbey, F.L. Block, D. Chavez, F. McCourt || //“Pity the reader”// || Topics: setting place, senses, description, (10/2)
 * Date: || Activity(s): || Relevant Readings || Notes ||
 * Sept.11&13, || Discussion of Reaction Papers
 * Sept.11&13, || Discussion of Reaction Papers
 * Sept. 18, 20 || Reading discussion groups - Elements of Narrative – Topics: plot and situation || Flaherty || //humility & quelling of the ego// ||
 * Sept. 25, 27 || Reading/Writing discussion groups -
 * Oct. 2, 4 || Field meeting # 1: Rio Grande Nature Center trail at end of Candelaria NW. In situ exercises:

Topics: character, draft #1, project #1 Due (10/9) || Oliver Sacks, Aldo Leopold, Jane Smiley Jay McInerny || //“I am not a monster”// //&// //(Crummy first drafts are OK)// ||
 * Oct. 9, 11 || Character, character development,dialogue Enjoy Fall Break - no class on 10/18

//Remember the final draft of project #1 is due on 10/16// || Ellen Gilchrist Michael.Thomas Margaret Atwood Larry McMurtry Eminem || // “New wave blond babe with half of her head shaved...Susan” //// Eminem // ||