Writing Assignments
This quarter, you will complete seven short writing assignments. Each is designed to encourage you to think deeply and critically about the fiction we'll be reading but to do so as a writer, rather than as a scholar, critic, theorist, or general reader. All of those approaches to reading are valuable and important but different from the way I am asking you to focus your written responses this quarter.
On the Assignments page and below (with links), you will find these seven assignments listed in alphabetical order, all with a due date at the end of the quarter. That's because you may tackle these in any order, mixing and matching them with any of our weekly readings. These written assignments will always be due on Friday at 5 pm and in response to the reading done for that same week. Example: we read Calvino's Invisible Cities for May 13, discuss it on May 13 & 15, and your chosen response is due Friday, May 17 at 5:00 pm.
By the end of the quarter, you should have completed one of each (no repeats) and each should be done in response to a different reading. You'll note this means you will NOT need to complete a response every week.
I strongly suggest that you review all the writing assignments this week so that they're in the back of your mind as you complete the readings and have a sense of the mixing and matching you might want to do.
I'll expect you to keep track of your own progress through these assignments, but if you fall behind (Oh no, it's week 6 and I've only done 1 response!), contact me ASAP.
Always make sure to note which assignment you are doing at top of your submission.
Double-space, 1 inch margins, 12 point font. Unless you have artistic reasons for doing otherwise.