1. Week
Class #
Creative Writing Syllabus Homework
Week One
Jan. 5
Project 1: Poetry
Class 1 Adding the class
Syllabus/Green Sheet
Website
Terms
In-class writing
Establish your Wordpress user name
Post #1: 2-3 Haiku
Bring a copy of your work to our next meeting.
Read: Blank Verse-All (on the website under
“course readings,” “poetry,” and “blank verse”).
Study Terms 1-5
Class 2 Groups and Participation Points
Discussion: Haiku
Terms 6-10
Lecture: Blank Verse: Form, Meter, and
Structure
Guided Writing (Color Poem)
Post #2 Blank Verse: Color Poem
Read: Sonnets
Study Terms 1-10
Week Two
Jan. 12
Poetry
Class 3 Discussion: Blank Verse: Color Poem
Terms 11-16
Lecture: Rhyme and Rhyme Schemes/Sonnet
Guided Writing: Shakespearian/Petrarchan
Sonnet
Post #3 Sonnet: Shakespearian or Petrarchan
Read: Sestina/Villanelle
Study Terms 1-16
Class 4 Discussion: Sonnet
Terms 17-23
Lecture Sestina/Villanelle: Form and Structure
Guided Writing: Sestina/Villanelle
Post #4: Sestina or Villanelle
Read: Free Verse
Study Terms 1-23
Week Three
Jan. 19
Poetry
No Class Holiday
Class 5 Discussion: Sestina/Villanelle
Terms 24- 30
Lecture: Free Verse
Guided Writing: Free Verse
Post # 5 Free Verse
Choose two or three different-style poems to
revise for project 1.
Bring four copies of your proposed project to
our next class meeting.
Study Terms: 1-30
Week Four
Jan. 26
Poetry Project 2: Fiction
Class 6 Terms Test 1
Writers' Workshop: Poetry
Post # 6: Project #1
Class 7 Due: Project #1: Poetry: Friday Noon
New Groups
Lecture: Elements of Fiction: Plot and POV
Guided Writing: POV (Three little Pigs)
Post #7: 250 words of your Three Little Pigs
story.
Read: Note the Plot and POV of each:
“The Tell Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe
“A Very Short Story” Ernest Hemingway
“Dr. Chevalier’s Lie” Kate Chopin

2. Week Five
Feb. 2
Project 2: Fiction
Class 8 Terms 1-8
Review: POV and PlotDiscussion: "A Very
Short Story," "A Tale Tell Heart," and "Dr.
Chevalier's Lie"
Lecture: Character and Setting
Guided Writing: Character, place, time,
situation
Post #8: Guided Writing
Read: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County”
Study Terms: 1-8
Class 9 Terms 9-17
Review
Discussion: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog"
Lecture: Setting, Tone
Guided Writing: Adventure Story
Post # 9: Guided writing (draft)
Read: “The Chrysanthemums”
Study Terms
Week Six
Feb 9
Fiction
Class 10 Terms 18-25
Discussion: "The Chrysanthemums”
Lecture: Fiction: Dialogue
Guided Writing: Fiction Adventure Story
Post # 10: post one or two dialogues from your
story that demonstrate the skills we learned today.
Bring: One copy of your completed fiction for
each member of your group.
Study Terms
Class 11 Terms 25-30
Writers' Workshop: Project #2: Fiction
Post # 11: The best two paragraphs of your
fiction project.
Read: “The Most Dangerous Game”
Study: Terms
Submit: Before Friday, Week 6, at noon
Week Seven
Feb 16
Fiction Project 3 Fiction
Monday No
Class
Holiday
Class 12 Terms Test #2
Lecture: Fiction: "The Most Dangerous Game."
Suspense
Guided Writing: Suspense
Post #12: Post a long paragraph or two that
demonstrate your efforts at creating suspense.
Read: "Labels"
Week Eight
Feb 23
Fiction
Class 13 Discussion: "Labels"
Lecture: Eliminating the passive voice; 7 genres
Guided Writing: Using the Active Voice in 7
genres
Post #13: two paragraphs (without
the “to be” verb) from your in-class writing.
Work on your fiction 2 project
Read Science Fiction: Heinlein: Stranger in a
Strange Land: Sections I-III, ending on page 19.
Class 14 Review: Eliminating "to be" verbs/ 7 Genres
Lecture: Fiction: 7 plots
Guided Writing
Post #14: Post a scene from your story that
demonstrates a convention or step in your tale.
Work on your fiction project.
Finish reading the section from Stranger in a
Strange Land.

3. Week Nine
Mar. 2
Fiction
Class 15 Discussion: Fiction: Science Fiction: Stranger in
a Strange Land
Lecture: Sentence level construction
Guided Writing: Body language
Post #15: A scene of body language
Bring: Three copies of your completed fiction
Class 16 Writers' Workshop #3: Fiction Project
Terms 1-9
Post # 16: The best two or three paragraphs of
your fiction project.Reading: Drama: 10 minute
plays: "Gray Matter"
Submit Project #3 before our next class meeting.
Study: Terms 1-9
Week Ten
Mar. 9
Project 4: Drama
Class 17 Project #3 Due
Writing Exercise
Terms 10-18
Lecture: Short Plays
Guided Writing
Work on Play
Study Terms 1-18
Class 18 Coming Attractions
Discussion: Self evaluation postings; Short
Plays
Terms 19-25
Guided Writing
Work on your projects
Write your self-assessment and email it to me at
palmoreessaysubmission@gmail.com
Study for terms test #3
Week Eleven
Mar 16
Project 4: Drama
Class 19 Due: Self-assessment
Terms: Test #3 Drama
Discussion Short Plays
Group work
Bring a hard copy of the play.
Study for make-up test (optional).
Class 20 Make-up or Retake of Terms Test
Discussion: Portfolios
Writers' Workshop: Drama Project #4
Prepare: Reading/Performance/or Video for
Monday.
Email me a copy of your drama
Email me a copy of (or a link to) your
performance.
Week Twelve
Mar 23
Drama
Class 21 Due: Project #4 Drama
Play Readings/Performances
Prepare: Portfolio submission is due before our
final class.
Class 22
Final
Thursday,
March 26
11:30 to 1:30
Due: Portfolio (Electronic in one file)
Due: Submission to Poetry Magazine
Finish Play Readings/Performances