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
