EWRT 30

Week 1 Class 1

Agenda

• Adding the Class• Syllabus/Green Sheet • Website• Terms• In-class writing

Adding the Class

• I will take 32 students• If you are on the waiting list, you can stay. I won’t

hand out add codes until Monday of next week, and then, only if there is room.

• As we go over the syllabus, consider whether you will stay in the class. If you want out, please let me know, so I can offer your seat to another student.

• If you are not on the waiting list, it is unlikely you will get into the class.

The Green Sheet

• What you will find here– Course Requirements

• Assignments and values• Participation

– Required Materials– Class Policies

• Plagiarism• Conduct and Courtesy

– The Class Website• How to sign up for an

account• How to post your

homework.– How to use Kaizena to

submit your Paper

Texts and Required Materials:

• Reading assignments will be posted on the course website. There is no text book for you to buy.

• College-level dictionary • A stapler, USB flash drive, loose-leaf paper or a

notebook for notes and drafts, and pens or pencils. Alternatively, you may use your computer for drafting.

Requirements: • Active participation in class discussions and regular

attendance. You will earn real points for your participation in activities.

• Keeping up-to-date on the assignments and reading. • Formal writing: a poetry project, two fiction projects, and a

drama project (small groups).• A series of creative writing posts to the class website• Terms tests, reading quizzes, and in-class assignments.

Grading

Class Policies

Writing Submissions

1. Kaizena allows me to respond to your essay with both voice and written comments and to insert helpful links. 

2. Create your account. Go to Kaizena.com or simply use the link on our class website home page. Click “Sign up.” Choose “Student.” Enter your group code (you can find this on the right side of the website or in the slideshow directions for how to use Kaizena.

3. Files are added to Conversations in Kaizena. To add a file to a conversation, click the "Add File" button.

4. Next, choose to add a file from Google Drive or to upload a file from your computer.  Use the box that pops up to find your file.  When you find your file, click it; next, click "Select" (for a Google Docs file) or open (for an uploaded file).  The file will be added to your conversation.

5. If you experience formatting errors when you upload a Word file, try saving the file as a PDF, and uploading it again.

6. Once I have graded your paper, you can access it by going to the “conversations” link in Kaizena.

7. Click on the highlighted sections of the paper to find both audio and written comments concerning your essay or links to materials that will help you improve your writing.

All out of class work is to be submitted to me electronically before the due date.

Attendance:Success in this course depends on regular attendance

and active participation. Participation points will be part of our daily activities. If you are not in class, you cannot earn these points. You should save absences for emergencies, work conflicts, weddings, jury duty, or any other issues that might arise in your life.

It is your responsibility to talk to me your absences or other conflicts. Work done in class cannot be made up. Also, please arrive on time, as you will not be able to make up work completed before you arrive, including quizzes.

• Tests: – We will have several terms tests during the quarter. I will

offer one opportunity late in the quarter to retake (or make-up) one of the first three terms tests.

• Late Work

– I do not accept late work. I do, however, extend an opportunity to revise one assignment for a better grade. If you miss a due date, you may submit that work when the revisions are due on the last day of the term. This does disqualify you from revising another piece.

Conduct, Courtesy, and Electronic Devices:• In this class, we will regularly engage in the discussion of each

other’s work. Because writing is so personal, I ask each of you to be both kind and honest. Do share helpful critiques so each writer may grow. Courtesy will allow each person to have the opportunity to express his or her ideas in a comfortable environment.

• Courtesy includes but is not limited to politely listening to others when they contribute to class discussions or while they give presentations, not slamming the classroom door or walking in front of classmates giving presentations if you do arrive late, and maintaining a positive learning environment for your fellow classmates. To help maintain a positive learning environment, please focus on the work assigned, turn off all cell phones and iPods before class, and do not text-message in class. If your behavior becomes disruptive to the learning environment of the class, you may be asked to leave and/or be marked absent.

Academic Dishonesty:Plagiarism includes quoting or paraphrasing material without documentation and copying from other students or professionals. Intentional plagiarism is a grave offense; the resulting response will be distasteful. Depending upon the severity, instances of plagiarism may result in a failing grade for the paper or the course and possible administrative action. All assignments will be scanned and scrutinized for academic dishonesty. Please refer to your handbook for more information regarding plagiarism.

The Syllabus

Syllabus

• The syllabus is a tentative schedule. • It may be revised during the quarter.• Use it to determine how to prepare for class.

What we will do in class

Homework due before the next class Current

Project

Week and Days

Website:palmoreewrt30.wordpress.com palm• Our class website is http://palmoreewrt30.wordpress.com. In

order to do the homework, you must establish an account. To make your own FREE Word Press account, go to wordpress.com. The system will walk you through the steps to signup for a username or to set up your own user-friendly Word Press blog. Alternatively, you can sign into our website through Facebook.

• If you prefer not to use your own name, you may use a pseudonym. Please email me your username if it is significantly different from your real name.

• If you cannot establish your website and username, please come to my office hours as soon as possible, and I will help you with the process. Much of our work will take place online, so establishing this connection is mandatory.

• Writing Assignments• Reading Assignments• The Green Sheet• Your Daily Homework Assignment (which is

where you post your homework.)

• The Syllabus (The Daily Plan)• Writing Tips• Helpful Links

HomeworkThere is writing homework due the evening before each meeting. This is both to help you think about your reading and to help you produce ideas for your writing.

In order to earn an A on your homework, you must do the following: Complete all of the posts. Post them on time. Be thoughtful in your writing.

Posting Homework

• On the front page of the website, you will find the homework post after each class. (text me if you don’t see it)

• Below that post on the right, are the words “Leave a comment.”

• Click there and a comment box will open. Copy and paste your homework into the comment box

• Click “Post Comment.”

This class is going to be so easy!Is this class too hard?

Is this classHistory 10?

Will I be a famous writer soon?

Questions?

TERMS

Haiku The haiku is composed of 17 sound units divided into three parts - one with 5 syllables, one with 7 syllables and another with 5 syllables.

AlliterationThe repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy.”

AssonanceThe repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in "I rose and told him of my woe." Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal "I's" in the following lines: "How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself."

ConventionA customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle. Conventions of the Haiku include the line and syllable count, the use of a word that marks a season, and the “phrase and fragment” style.

OnomatopoeiaThe use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. The following line from Pope's "Sound and Sense" onomatopoetically imitates in sound what it describes:

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,The line too labors, and the words move slow.

Most often, however, onomatopoeia refers to words and groups of words, such as Tennyson's description of the "murmur of innumerable bees," which attempts to capture the sound of a swarm of bees buzzing.

Let’s get ready to write!

Haiku

“Haiku show[s] us the world in a water drop, providing a tiny lens through which to

glimpse the miracle and mystery of life” (National Endowment for the Humanities).

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• It is a traditional form of Japanese poetry

• It describes nature, every day life, or the human condition

• It is based on personal reflection

• Its value is in sudden discovery or revelation

What is Haiku?

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The moment two bubblesare united, they both vanish.A lotus blooms.

-Kijo Murakami (1865-1938)

Why Haiku?• It is a great mode of self-

expression

• It demands both brevity and clarity in writing

• It captures one moment and its emotions perfectly

• It expresses complex ideas through simple observations

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• Writing and understanding Haiku requires multiple skills:

– Close observation– Careful reflection– Concise word choice– An open mind

Writing Haiku

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• A Haiku traditionally has three lines with seventeen syllables:– Five --Three– Seven --Five– Five --Three

• This form is strict in Japanese• Sometimes it varies in other languages or

in translation. Endeavor to be traditional—even in English!

Writing Haiku: Form

• A haiku consists of two parts: The description and the reflection.

• Each part depends on the other for meaning.

• In Japanese Haiku, the break is marked by a “cutting word.” In English, the break is often marked by punctuation (e.g. colon, long dash, ellipsis)

• A haiku usually includes a kigo, a word that indicates a season. This does not have to be a traditional season like fall or winter. It could be baseball season or voting time; the reader just has to be able to determine when the event takes place.

Writing Haiku: Structure and Language

English Haiku

Road from Banburya man spilled from his crushed car

dead eyes full of rainJane K. Lambertthe rhythmof her old brown handsweaving thin wet reedsElizabeth St Jacques

open boxcar doors:

the evening sun slips

into a swarm of gnats

James Chessing

1991 Charles B. Dickson International Haiku Contest--winners

Write Your Own Haiku–Try the five, seven, five syllable form–Try the three, five, three syllable form–Include a kigo to indicate the season–Use both a description and a reflection.–Remember to identify the break between the two with punctuation.

old pond . . .a frog leaps inwater's soundMatsuo Bashô (1644-1694)

Billboards . . .    wet        in spring            rain . . . Eric W. Amann

Sign says "no parking";it wasn't there yesterday;my favorite spot.  Paul Brown

the nail box:every nail

is bent Ozaki Hôsai

(1885-1926)

pausinghalfway up the stair--

white chrysanthemums

 Elizabeth Searle Lamb

• Natural Endowment for the Humanities. EDSITEment. Can You Haiku? May 2002. 10 October 2009. <http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=250>.

• Toyomasu, Kei Grieg. HAIKU for PEOPLE. 10 Jan. 2001. 10 October 2009. <http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku>.

• Herrlin, Jackie. HA-KU. 2004. Internet Archive. 10 October 2009. <http://www.archive.org/details/cie_haku>. (Attribution, Non Commercial, No Derivatives)

• Russo, Dave. North Carolina Haiku Society. Unknown. 10 October 2009. <http://nc-haiku.org/haiku-misc.htm>.

Works Cited

Homework

• Make your Word Press Website or establish your user name

• Post #1: 2-3 Haiku• Bring a copy of your work to

our next meeting. • Reading: Blank Verse-All (on

the website under “course readings,” “poetry,” and “blank verse”).

• Study Terms 1-5