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Lecture
Exercises
Written Assignments
Reading Assignments
Guide Questions for Reading Assignments
5-6 Diagnostic Test
7 LEC#1: Creative Writing: Introduction
Course Orientation
Types of Writing
8-10 LEC#2: Improving Reading & Writing
11-12 RA#1: Double Face
13-15 EX#1: The Writing Process
16 WA#1: The Writing Process

17 D-RA#1: Double Face

18-19 RA#2: Langston Hughes: A Biography
20 EX#2: GRAMMAR: Nouns & Pronouns
21-22 EX#3: Nouns & Pronouns
23 WA#2: Nouns & Pronouns
24 EX#4: GRAMMAR: Verbs
25 EX#5: Verbs
26 EX#6: GRAMMAR: Adjectives & Adverbs
27-28 EX#7: Adjectives & Adverbs; Guide
29-31 WA#3: Adjectives

32 D-RA#2: Langston Hughes: A Biography

33 RA#3: Poems
34-35 EX#8: Prepositions
36-37 EX#9: Sentence Construction: Transformation
38 EX#10: GRAMMAR: Conjunctions
39 WA#4: Sentence Construction: Transformation
40 EX#11: GRAMMAR: Relative Pronouns; Participles
41-42 EX#12: Sentence Construction: Connection & Combination
43 WA#5: Sentence Construction

44 D-RA#3: Poems
45 RA#4: Desiderata
46 EX#13: Exploring Sensory Experience
47-48 EX#14: Figurative Language
49 WA#6: Figurative Language
50-52 EX#15: Special Places
54, 56 EX#16: Narrative Writing: Sequence & Details
53 WA#7: Revised Special Places
58,59,61 EX#17: Narrative Writing: Focus
55, 57 WA#8: Revised Sequence & Details
x EX#18: Writing Dialogue
x EX#19: Point of View
60, 62 WA#9: Revised Focus
x EX#20: Story
x WA#10: Revised Dialogue, Point of View
x D-RA#4: Desiderata
x WA#10: Revised Story
 Congratulations! Now that you’ve completed your first real assignment, let me remind you how you did it.
First you thought about a place. Then you organized your thoughts by writing some of your impressions on
the chart. Once you had some details to work with, you wrote the description, and the assignment was
complete, right? WRONG! No writer writes it right the first time. I asked you to wait a day, then read your
paper again and evaluate it against the revision checklist. You made corrections in the original rewrote it.

My Children Explain the Big Issues

by: Will Baker

FEMINISM
I am walking up a long hill toward our water tank and pond. My daughter Montana, 23 months, has decided
to accompany me. It is a very warm day, so she wears only diapers, cowboy boots, and a floral-print bonnet. At
the outset I offer to carry her but she says “I walk,” and then, “You don’t have to hold my hand, daddy. ”
This is the longest walk she has taken, without assistance. I see droplets of sweat on the bridge of her nose.
Just before the water tank there is a steep pitch and loose gravel on the path, so I offer again to help.
She pulls away and says, “You don’t have to hold me, daddy.” A moment later she slips and falls flat. A pause
while she rolls into a sitting position and considers, her mouth bent down. But quickly she scrambles up and
slaps at the dirty places on her knees, then looks at me sidelong with a broad grin. “See?”
EXISTENTIALISM
Cole is almost three and has had a sister now for four months. All his old things have been resurrected. Crib,
changing table, car sear, backpack, bassinet. There have been visitors visiting, doctors doctoring, a washer and
dryer always washing and drying.
He has taken to following me around when I go to work on a tractor or pump, cut firewood, or feed the
horses. We are out of the house. It doesn’t matter if it is raining. In our slickers and rubber boots we stride
through a strip of orchard, on our way to some small chore. I am involved with a problem of my own, fooling
with a metaphor or calculating if it’s time to spray for leaf curl. The rain drumming on the hood of the slicker,
wet grass swooshing against the boots, I completely forget my son is there.
“Hey dad,” he says suddenly, and I wake up, look down at him, and see that he is in a state of serious wonder,
serious delight. “We’re alone together, aren’t we dad?”

In Search of Adventure
by: Chris Davis

Imagine the thrill of steering your canoe into a tidal cave as majestic as the nave of a cathedral, mountain
biking through the dappled shades of a primary rain forest or taking a small boat out to the playground of the
endangered pink dolphin. Travelers looking for such adventures will find there is a lot more to do in Asia than
soaking up the sun beside a hotel swimming pool.
In recent years, the most popular Asian tourist destinations have begun fulfilling the growing demand for
eco-travel, for experiencing a destination – instead of just “seeing” it – through its natural treasures. The
process has been necessarily slow and cautious. “It’s a matter of finding the right balance between giving
people quality tourism and ensuring that our culture and natural resource are not exploited or lost,” explains
Silachai Surai, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) in Hong Kong and Macau.
Working in the north of Thailand, local tour operators have developed a broad range of responsible eco-
tourism programs. The common feature is that all the trips combine the thrill of adventure., the creature
comforts that sophisticated tourists expect, and most importantly, a keen respect for the environment in which
they operate.
Thirty miles north of Chiang Mai, Adam Finn’s Elephant Nature Park sits in a fertile valley surrounded by
jungle-clad mountains. Finn set up the park initially as a sanctuary for elephants and their mahouts (handlers)
out of work when Thailand imposed a logging ban in 1989 (until the elephants were an integral part of the
lumber teams). The park also offers rooms and activities for travelers. “The main activity is the elephant safari,”
says Finn, “but oxcart riding and river descents on bamboo rafts are also on the adventure menu.” Even the
local farmers benefit by selling their produce to the park’s kitchens, which helps to preserve the area’s natural
balance and harmony.
 Farther south in the Gulf of Phuket, John (Caveman) Gray operates Sea Canoe, a company dedicated to the
philosophy that economic development and conservation can coexist. Gray and experienced guides take
visitors by sea canoes into limestone caves known locally as hongs, which are filled with inland lagoons, coral
gardens, and stalactites. “The most common comment that people make is “this is the most remarkable
experience of my life,” says Gray. By keeping the number of canoers low and leaving no traces of their visit, the
sites remain as pristine as the day they were discovered.

Independent Strategies
by: Jill Marie Warner

When I get stuck on a word in a book,

There are lots of things to do.
I can do them all, please, by myself;
I don't need help from you.
I can look at the picture to get a hint,
Or think what the story's about.
I can "get my mouth ready" to say the first letter,
A kind of "sounding out."
I can chop the word into smaller parts,
Like on and ing and ly,
Or find smaller words in compound words
Like raincoat and bumblebee.
I can think of a word that makes sense in that place,
Guess or say "blank" and read on
Until the sentence has reached its end,
Then go back and try these on:
"Does it make sense?"
"Can we say it that way?"
"Does it look right to me?"
Chances are the right word will pop out like the sun
In my own mind, can't you see?
If I've thought of and tried out most of these things
And I still do not know what to do,
Then I may turn around and ask
For some help to get me through.
CREATIVE WRITING

Critical Reading: Reading Fiction

 RECAP:
Genre - derived from the Latin word, “genus”,
meaning “kind”
- refers to what kind of writing is being read
or written
Literary Genres of Creative Writing:
 fiction ★
o short stories
o novels
 nonfiction
o memoir
 poetry of all kinds
 stage play scripts
 film and television screenplays
 lyrics

Fiction
 writer’s job:
o to convince the reader that the events he recounts really happened or to persuade the
reader that they might have happened (given small changes in the laws of the universe)
o to engage the reader’s interest in the patent absurdity of the lie
- depend heavily on precision of detail
e.g. Would a mother really say that?
Would a child really think that?

Creative Writing
1 HOUR, WEEKDAYS
April 15 - May 13, 2019

Apr 15 M Introduction 0:20

Diagnostic Test: Mock Test 01 1:40
Apr 16 T Mini Practice Test: E 01 0:20
Break 0:05
Discussion of Solution & Answers 0:35
Apr 17 W
Apr 18 TH
Apr 19 F

Apr 20 M
Apr 21 T
Apr 22 W
Apr 23 TH
Apr 24 F

Apr 29 M
Apr 30 T
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May 2 TH
May 3 F

May 4 M
May 5 T
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May 9 M
May 10 T
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May 13 F *LAST DAY: Evaluation & Completion Day

20 days TOTAL