Journals Due & First Test Friday

Don't forget that your journals are due this Friday. Six entries, neatly submitted in a folder, one of each entry type.

You're responsible for this information for your first major test on Friday October 28:




Info on which you'll be tested

Favorite work of art writing assignment handout
fiction notes
John Updike interview, posted Oct. 4 on blog
The Lucid Eye in Silver Town and notes
notes on The Born Writer
notes on scene, summary, and description
An Old Fashioned Story and notes
notes on storytelling techniques
Fish Cheeks and notes
Jimmy Buffett selection and notes
scene from The Sun Also Rises and notes
scene from Pigeon Feathers
Old Man at the Bridge and notes
Patricia, Edith, and Arnold and notes
notes of effective dialogue

terms/definitions: fiction, scene, summary, mimesis, selection, detached autobiography, first person subjective narration, iceberg theory of Hemingway

"random" discussion topics/class activities in class reg. the stories: Vermeer vs. Degas; Superman by Five for Fighting, etc.

Test format

a. definitions
b. True-false (read them carefully--any one thing that is false makes the answer false)
c. fill-ins (lists, etc.)
d. short answers