Assignments 

Initial Plan for Weeks 1 and 2

Unit 1

Week 2:  Reading memoirs

Credit criteria for informal assignments

Week 3 (2/7, 2/9):  The Craft of Memoir Writing

Exploring Literacy Ch. 3 and Karen's Memoir

Week 4(2/24, 2/16): Writing Memoirs

Chart of memoir elements

Memoir grading rubric

Unit 2

Week 5 (2/21, 2/23):  Exploring Aspects of the World

includes group discussion questions on Catfish and Mandala

for 2/16

Week 6 (2/28, 3/2) Analyzing Craft

Week 6 additional readings

Groups and assignment for 3/2

Guidelines for Collaborative Critical Analysis

Elements of Creative Nonfiction (working list 3/2)

Week 7 (3/7, 3/9) Writing about Nonfiction

Rubric for critical analysis essay

Vacation and Week 8 (3/21, 3/23)--Writing a creative nonfiction essay; reading Catfish and Mandala

Unit 3

Week 9 Reading researched creative nonfiction

Week 10 Reading research and researched essays

Schedule of work for Unit 3 Paper--The Researched Creative Essay

Week 11 Web sources, draft, and peer review

Assignment 14--Finding and evaluating web information

Peer review sheet for 4/13

Unit 4  Week 12 to end

Looking ahead:  a rough working schedule for Week 6 to the end of the semester