Creative Writing - SAU

POST SPRING BREAK - TELECOMMUTING WORK
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. -Maya Angelou
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POST SPRING BREAK ASSIGNMENTS

STORY GUIDELINES
Sample Stories
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"Sad and American" by Siamak Vossoughi
"Eating Bone" by Shabnam Nadiya
"Spell Philippines" by Annie Zaidi
"It's Sci-Fi" by Josh Eure -Best of the Net 2010, first published in Raleigh Review vol. 1.

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The guidelines for the story is to craft one between 1000-2000 words
-protagonist needs to be over 35 (or an older and more mature soul who is younger).
-All main characters survive through the story.
-Due the week we comeback from Spring Break.
-One copy typed and emailed and sent to me by Monday, 30 March 2020.
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POST SPRING BREAK POEM GUIDELINES
When "spring break" ends on 23 March 2020, poems need to be self-generated.
You created and we workshopped 3 poems prior to Spring Break.
If you need a prompt, refer to the Poet's Companion chapter one questions where you made a list on the important or noteworthy events in your life.
3 additional poems are to be workshopped during the final month and a half of the semester.

Due dates are: Poem 4 | Wednesday, 25 March 2020
-emailed to Greene and to all ENG 237-01 classmates

Poem 5 | Wednesday, 01 April 2020 -- emailed to Greene and to all classmates

Poem 6 | Wednesday, 15 April 2020  -- emailed to Greene and to all classmates
Greene's email is: rgreene@st-aug.edu, rigreene@ncsu.edu

Final Portfolio is due Wednesday 22 April 2020 -- by email upload on CAMS -- final version of poems and story within one file attachment and uploaded to CAMS and/or emailed to me at
rgreene@st-aug.edu (no google docs -- file types: doc, docx, or PDF only)
If you must send me a Google Doc, please send it to my NCSU email at: rigreene@ncsu.edu

My NCSU email is good for workshopping and editing the poems as they move to the final stages
due to Google docs. You may send poems to both email addresses to reach me:
rgreene@st-aug.edu, rigreene@ncsu.edu

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Week 9 and 10 (Mark Twain quotes III)

1. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

2. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

3. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

4. Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.


Week 11 and 12 (Maya Angelou quotes I)

1. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

2. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

3 There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

4 Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

5. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.


Week 13 and 14 (Maya Angelou quotes II)


1. Nothing will work unless you do.

2. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

3. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.


Week 15 Student conferences


Week 16 (Maya Angelou quotes III)

1. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

2. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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FIRST HALF OF SPRING 2020 SEMESTER
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Week 1-4 (Introduction to the course and creative writing basics)

My course-pack and materials are on CAMS at Saint Augustine's University:

https://students.st-aug.edu/login.asp

After you sign in, go to Course Documents to view the syllabus as well as the course-pack.
Print the course-pack and bring it to class everyday.

Remind Creative Writing class link: https://www.remind.com/join/robgreene

Supplementary Course Materials and Quote List. . .

Denis Johnson's "A Car Crash While Hitchhiking"

Lorca's  Essay on Duende

Week 5-9 (Short Story Due When We're Back from Spring Break)
Sample stories:

Week 4 and 5 (Lucille Clifton quotes)

1. In The bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

2. What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

3. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Too many great ones to list by Lucille Clifton so I encourage you to read more of here quotes here: https://www.azquotes.com/author/2992-Lucille_Clifton

poem example: "Homage to My Hips" by Lucille Clifton: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49487/homage-to-my-hips


Week 6 (Salvador Dali quotes) - Spring Break

1. Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

2. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

3. Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

4. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

5. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.


Week 7 (Mark Twain quotes I)

1. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

2. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

3. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.


Week 8 (Mark Twain quotes II)

1. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

2. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

3. Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Research Writing - SAU

RESEARCH PROJECT - Telecommuting our work together

-ASSIGNMENT=

---ALSO on CAMS & REMIND with a larger font.

MLA Research Project Layout | Spring 2020| ENG 132 | Greene

Rob Greene’s Three Step Check-In Research project last updated 23 March 2020, SAU.

Project details: Research your ideal field of study (or your favorite subject,
if you do not know your major or what you wish to do just yet): derive your research question,

Project must contain what you want to know about your proposed field of study.

Sources:

1. A tertiary source - a one-page general overview that can be found via Google (select a trade within your field of study (or favorite subject)),
2. do not copy and paste - read the text and put it in your own words while citing where you found your information (as always).
3. Use the Purdue MLA citation guide via this page: PURDUE OWL - MLA Citation Guide

Tertiary Source Check-in Presentation to the entire class is due (email this to me at

rgreene@st-aug.edu, rigreene@ncsu.edu : both email addresses by: 

Tuesday the 31st of March 2020 (for T/Th classes) 

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2. A secondary source - a one to three page summary that looks at more specialized text sources.
For example if you want to work in cancer research, determine the specific cancer you want to study and use NCBI Pubmed to search for a research paper in your field that you want to look into and write a one page summary of that research paper by looking at the abstract,
the intro and discussion and results section (you may skip the materials and methods section in this case).
This is only an example, You may choose a field in the humanities, in engineering, in business,
in healthcare delivery, etc.

Secondary Source Check-in Presentation to the entire class is due
(email this to me at rgreene@st-aug.edu, rigreene@ncsu.edu : both email addresses by 

Tuesday April 13th, 2020 (for T/TH)

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3. A primary research source - derived by you, the researcher. Examples can be:

Primary research examples can be an interview with a specialist in your field (for qualitative)

Or an analytical computation for (quantitative) that is derived and analyzed by you the researcher

Research Projects with your tertiary, secondary and primary source data -- 

Due Dates:

Research Paper and Presentations (via Youtube or Zoom or Remind Video Conferencing) 

are due:  Thursday the 22th of April 2020 (For T/TH classes)

Presentations, must be created via Google Slides and sent before the day of your presentation.
Presentations will be on 27 April 2020 -- you can send a video of your presentation or present
via video conference.

And share is with me at: rigreene@ncsu.edu, rgreene@st-aug.edu as these are
the best email addresses to reach me on. You can also send me a message via the Remind App.

Tips

• Cite everything, photos and all text (everything needs to be in your own words unless using a direct quote though still cite if the ideas are not your own).
• Be Original, and give credit to others when necessary.
• Have a Works cited page at the end of your presentation and your paper.
• Prep to Predict questions and have slides ready to address the questions.

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Pre Spring Break | Pre Pandemic
Remind class app: https://www.remind.com/join/robgree



Assignment 1: Argument essay on 12 Angry Men

Argument Essay on 12 Angry Men screenplay by Reginald Rose

Argument Essay Assignment 1: Taking 12 Angry Men into consideration and citing the play in three places within your essay, here is the prompt:

"Imagine yourself as a member of a jury for a murder trial, how would you weigh both the power of empathy and bias in your service on the jury. The following scenario is just an example, would you take the road of juror number 8 who would seek to find the truth no matter how much time it took, or would you want a quick trial so you can move on with your life?"

You may absolutely refer to the MLA Citation guide linked below to Purdue Owl sourcing, and you may absolutely use the play linked above and your notes for this assignment.

Also pay close attention to the argument essay model below for your six paragraph (minimum) paper with your clear rebuttal.


Syllabus with

37 Inspirational Thomas Edison Quotes from the Edison Innovation Foundation

WEEK 1
Introduction to course Chapter 1: “The Dynamics of Argument” (DA)
pp. 3-7

1. Learn with both your head and hands.

WEEK 2
The structure of Argument pp. 157-167 Chapter 2: “Claims and Support,” pp. 25-36, DA MLA & APA Documentations, pp. 371-398.

1. Never stop learning. Read the entire panorama of literature.

View The Entire Argument Essay Model PDF within CAMS.

WEEK 3
Logical Fallacies Chapter 1 continued, pp. 8-14 DA Watch You tube videos on (MLA Style: In-text Citations) Read “Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?” p. 559, DA -or CAMS- (Discuss claims in this work and support the claims with reasons that are found in this work). Read King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” p. 731, DA (Discuss claims in this work and support the claims with reasons that are found in this work).

1."Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

2. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's
useless."

WEEK 4
pp. 17-23 , DA Read Johnathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” p. 761 DA (Discuss claims in this work and support the claims with reasons that are found in this work). “The Obama Era: A Post-Racial Society?” p. 702, DA (Discuss claims in this work and support the claims with reasons that are found in this work).
1."There is no substitute for hard work."

2. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Week 5

Week 5 Rough draft of claim- with-reasons paper is due on one of the preceding readings. Peer evaluation of paper Chapter 6: “The Writing Process” pp. 179-185 DA Paper # 1 is due (Claim- with-reasons) Writing exercises

1. "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

2. "What you are will show in what you do."

Week 6
Writing The Cause-Effect Paper Read “Civil Disobedience,” by Thoreau, p. 717 (Discuss causes and effects in this work) Read Hip-Hop Activism Buds Beautifully,” pp. 78-89, DA (Discuss causes a
Read “Woman’s Time,” pp. 744-748. DA (Discuss some causes and effects that exist in the work).
1. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

2. "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

Week 7
Read “Arizona’s Dreadful Anti-Immigrant Law,”(Discuss some causes and effects that exist in the work). Read sonnet 130-William Shakespeare, p. 771,DA (Discuss some causes and effects that exist in the work). Develop thesis statement for paper #2. Select one of the selections above (cause-effect)
1. "Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

2. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Week 8
Paper # 2 is due Select one of the reading selections above that we discussed Chapter 3: “Reading and Responding,” pp.57-63, DA pp. 64-77, DA
1. "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."

2. "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

Week 9
Ch. 4: “Researching Argument,” pp.90-96, DA How to Write the problem-Solution Paper Read “Understanding Islam: Facts About Islam,” pp.689-691

1. "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."

2. "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

Week 10

Read “Islamophobia: Does America Have a Muslim Problem” pp. 672-678.DA (Discuss some problems that exist within the work) Read “As Social Media Shifts Boundaries, a Student’s Suicide Shows a Darker Side,”DA, pp. 535-540 (Discuss some problems that exist within the work) In-class writing Paper #3 (Reflection)

Week 11 

Read “, Regulation, and the Supersizing of America,” DA pp. 421-431 (Discuss some problems that exist in this essay). Read “Pay Your Student Loan on Time”? p. 50. (Discuss some problems that exist in this work). Paper #4 is due (Problem-solution )

1. "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

2. "Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."

Week 12 

Read “The Loan Without the Regret: For Students Who Borrow, Federal Reform and a Brightening Economy Are Silver Linings,” pp. 508-511,DA

17. "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

18. "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

Week 13 

Using databases to research topics (Use at least five sources, as you revise one of your shorter papers that you wrote this semester. It should t be 1300-1400 words.

19. "Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

20. "Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

Week 14 

Bibliography is due Outline is due

21. "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"

22. "The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."

Week 15 

Research continues Rough draft of the paper is due

In-class workshop

23. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

24. "There's a way to do it better - find it."

Week 16 

Presentations Final draft of paper is due (1300-1400 research assessment paper is due)

1. "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."

2. "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

3. "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."

4.. "To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

5. "The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

6. "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

7. "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

8. "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

9. "There is far more opportunity than there is ability."

10. "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."

11. "When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
12. "I start where the last man left off."

13. "Great ideas originate in the muscles."

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