Calendar

All assignments are due on day of class.  CNF=Creative Nonfiction by Eileen Pollack

Week	Monday	Wednesday
1 What is CNF?	1/28 1st day of class	1/30 Read Hughes (attachment); O’Brien “How to Tell a True War Story” (online)  NOTE: Class meets in Marsh LL12 computer lab Blog #1: In class
2 Technique: Here, Memory, Fetch: Retrieving The Past through Detail	2/4 Read “Knoxville” (CNF 15), “Shooting an Elephant” (CNF 43), “Cracking Open” (handout) “Death of a Pig” (60), “Big Boy” (online), “First” (online)	2/6 Blog #2
3 Techniques: Take Me to the Movies: Cinematic Effects	2/11 Read “My Body…” (CNF 214) “The Death of the Moth” (online), “The Bone Road” (online)	2/13 Blog #3
4 Technique: Building Upon the Scene	2/18 Memoir Draft Due in class; Read “I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part” (online)	2/20 Blog #4
5 Workshopping	2/25 Piece #1 Due: Memoir (Saturday by midnight) /  Workshop #1	2/27 Workshop #1 Cont’
6 Pers. Essay	3/4  Read “At the Dam” (CNF 312), “The Knife” (handout), “The Personal Essay” Lopate (attachment), “On Tongues” (online)	3/6 Blog #5
7 Technique: Research	3/11 Read “No Wonder..“ (CNF 139), “Testing Bloodhounds” (CNF 142), “Joyas Voladoras” (online); “Becoming Adolf” (online)	3/13 Blog #6 Class Meets in Library
8 Technique: Voice	3/18 Read “An Insider's Guide to Jailhouse Cuisine” (online), “On Pests” (online); “The Sultan’s Scissors” (attachment)	3/20 Read student essays; Blog #7
9	3/25  Spring Break	3/27 Spring Break
10 Workshopping	4/1 Piece #2 Due: Personal Essay (Saturday by midnight) / Workshop #2	4/3 Workshop #2 cont’
11 Literary Journalism	4/8 Read “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” (online), “The Stunt Pilot” (CNF 176), “Underworld” (GQ.com)	4/10 Blog #8
12 Technique: Ways to Structure	4/15 Read “Round Trip“ (CNF 382), “Taking Heat” (online); “George” (attachment)	4/17 Blog #9
13 Technique: Dialogue	4/22 Read “Difficult Decisions," “A Boy of Unusual Vision” (online); “American Man at Age Ten” (online)	4/24 Senior Projects Day; Blog #10
14 Workshopping	4/29 Piece # 3 Due: Profile (Saturday by midnight) / Workshop #3	5/1 Workshop #3 Cont’
15	5/6 Final Day of Class	5/13, Mon, Time TBD  Final Portfolios Due & Class Reading