Class 13

HOMEWORK FOR THE LAST CLASS:

1) FGCU Student Evaluation of Instruction -- please fill out your course evaluations immediately! And please spend a good amount of time on it. We have never offered this kind of course before, and so your feedback will be an important factor in deciding whether we will offer something like this again. Plus I value the feedback of my creative writing students as I continue to hone my own teaching practices. Please fill out the written part of the evaluation as thoroughly as you can.

2) Read Letters to Wendy's & write a Reading Response

3) Creative Assignment: Create a work that follows a grammatical system but does not make rational sense. Play with language, a la Gertrude Stein.

4) Bring a revised piece in to workshop.


P.S. Here are some of the things we looked at today:

"Venus of Urbino" by Titian

"Olympia" by Edouard Manet

"The Clarinet Player" by Pablo Picasso

"The Convergence of the Twain" by Thomas Hardy

"Be Drunk" by Charles Baudelaire

Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously by Noam Chomsky