I feel a bit scattered, or maybe it's more pulled in many directions. A scaled back version of Quilt Camp starts today, and I'm trying to remember what projects I was working on before CPE got rolling.
I'll be going back and forth to Spartanburg Methodist College, and I have entered that period where I'm trying to remember who has done what in each class and where we're going in the immediate future.
In the further ahead future, I got my schedule for Spring, and what a sweet schedule it is: 3 sections of English 102, the Intro to Lit class, 1 section of the second half of the American Lit Survey class, and 1 section of Advanced Creative Writing.
I haven't really taught an Advanced Creative Writing class before, although I've taught variations that focused on a specific type of Creative Writing: Poetry or Scriptwriting for Games (a Game Art design class) or Nonfiction Writing. I'm glad I have some time to think about potential approaches.
But back to our current semester. This week is the one where I take my English 100 and English 101 students outside to look at trees. The weather is PERFECT! We've had a bit of a cold front go through, making it not cold but pleasant and less humid. I am structuring these assignments a bit differently, and I'll report on it as I go.
For English 100, I'm trying something really new: lots of in-class writing, some revision, and then students choose which draft to finish and turn in for a grade. But it will be a multi-part assignment--turning in the 2-4 rough drafts, along with the finished draft, and an analytical piece about the writing and revising process.
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