INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING (D02)

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Module 1: What is Creative Writing? (Week 1)

Module 2: Fiction (Weeks 2-5) 6

Module 3: Poetry (Weeks 6-10) 18

Week Six: Introduction to Poetry 1

Week Seven: Imagery 4

Week Eight: Sound 4

Week Nine: Experimenting with Forms 5

Week Ten: Revision Play 4

Module 4: Creative Non-Fiction (Weeks 11-12) 11

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Week Seven: Imagery Print

Welcome to Introduction to Creative Writing, Week 7!

In this module, we will continue to explore craft issues in poetry,
especially imagery. As well, we will read, analyze, and discuss a variety of
poems and approaches to writing poetry.

The reading for this week will allow you to learn and navigate necessary
course information to establish a knowledge-base for this module.

The discussion board post for this week will allow you to successfully
interact with your creative writing community while demonstrating
knowledge and understanding of the subject matter.

The Short Writing Assignment for this week will allow you to successfully
demonstrate that you understand key explication concepts, and can
identify and understand elements of craft within creative works.

The Poem Draft for this week will allow you to successfully demonstrate
that you can apply the elemental aspects of poetry as introduced in this
module.

Course Competencies:
Discuss poetry in terms of craft, technique, and content.

Identify and define poetic forms and styles through reading, analyzing, and
writing about a variety of texts.
Compose original poems following a prompt.

Module Learning Objectives:

Students completing this module should be able to:

Identify and define craft terms related to poetry. (MLO 1)

Analyze poems in term of structure, language, and imagery. (MLO
2)
Write a poem in response to an assignment prompt. (MLO 3)

Module Activities, Assessments & Alignment:

Readings (CLO 5) (MLO 1, MLO 2)

Week 7 Discussion: A Poem Laureate (CLO 5) (MLO 2)
Week 7 Short Assignment: Reading a Poem (CLO 5, CLO 6) (MLO 1, MLO
2)
Poem Draft 2 (CLO 1) (MLO 3)

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Week Seven Checklist

Checklist
Remember to post your initial response to discussion questions by
Thursday (11:59 pm) and follow up responses to peer posts no later than
Sunday (11:59 pm) of the week assigned.

Readings/Resources
Web Page

Week Seven: A Poet Laureate

Discussion Forum

Due July 2 at 11:59 PM

Week Seven Poem Draft 2

Assignment

Overdue - July 2 at 11:59 PM

For this draft, think of a place you know well and can describe clearly (this could be
an indoor or outdoor space, a room, a building, the interior of a car, a hiking path...you
name it!).

Spend 10 minutes making a list of images (words or phrases) related to this

place: include images that make use of all five senses, if possible.
Then, write a poem that uses as many of those images as you can. Keep in mind
your goal is to show readers rather than tell. Don't explain how you feel about the
place you are describing; let readers come to their own conclusions based on
the tactile images of the poem.

Exercises are play: these assignments are designed to get you writing, to generate
ideas and images, and to warm up your brain. You might develop any exercise into
a poem to be turned in for workshop, but you don't have to. You will turn in
exercises for credit (10 points); I will give minimal feedback. They are mainly to get
you writing!

Week Seven Short Writing

Assignment: Reading a Poem
Assignment

Overdue - July 2 at 11:59 PM

Please watch this Ted talk by poet and critic Stephen Burt, in which he talks about
how he reads poetry and why poetry is important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=08ZWROqoTZo

After watching the video, try your own hand at writing an explication of the
poem “Walking, Blues” by Jane Mead :
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/53963/walking-blues

Approx 300 - 400 words. Look at form, image, metaphor, sounds, space, repetition.
Explain what you notice, specifically and with details. Don't say "I don't know";
instead, read and think and respond from your heart and your mind.