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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP 

REQUIREMENTS

GRADE SHEET

You must submit this grade sheet to receive your final grade. If you don’t send in your grade sheet you will be issued a "W" for the term.

CLICK HERE FOR A FURTHER EXPLANATION OF 

GRADING STANDARDS

RECORD THE NUMBER (#) OF PAGES YOU WROTE IN THE BLANK FOR EACH.

Poetry:
_____Imitation of poems from Deciduous Poems by Dr. Axelrod 

_____Extra credit, imitation of any other contemporary poet  (link for lesson)

_____Formal poetry (sonnet or other approved form) (link for lesson)

_____3 Haikus or Tankas; imagistic poems (link for lesson)

_____Other poetry (describe)____________________________________________ 

Script:
_____ 5-page Dialog (link for lesson)

_____Other  script (describe)___________________________________________

Story:  (link for lessons)

_____Imitation of either Hemingway, Joyce or other approved author (click for lesson)

_____Description of person, place or event (or other approved exercise)

_____Other prose fiction (describe)______________________________________

 Required Literary Activities:

_____Name the required literary event you attended__________________________

_____Describe any other extra-credit event(s)___________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

Extra-Credit Writing:

_____Journal

_____Other extra credit________________________________________________

Project (Required to be eligible for an "A"):

_____Total pages of project (20 pages of all poetry; OR all prose; OR 20-page play) (click for description/lesson)

_____Check here if properly formatted for publication (book/bound)

TIMELINESS & Participation:  (click for workshop directions)

_____Sent poem(s) for comment via email. (two poems to everyone was required.)

_____Sent 5-page dialog to everyone for comment via email. 

_____Sent pages of prose fiction to everyone for comment via email.

_____Number of times you commented on other work via email (Minimum, two comments via email for each of the three genre:

poetry , script, prose fiction--for a total of 6 email workshop exchanges.)

ANSWER YES OR NO:  

_____On time for comments on two poems by each of two students =four poems critiqued.

_____On time for comment on two student dialogs.

_____On time for comments on two student stories.        

_____On time for project.

Comments:

(What else might "lobby" for a good grade?!)

_______________________________________________________________________

To receive a grade of "B" one must complete the minimum requirements assigned throughout the term and participate regularly AND in a timely manner in the email workshops. Anything dramatically late or missing will require you receive less than "B" grade. For a grade of "A" one must also have completed an approved project. PLEASE INDICATE FROM THIS LIST ("A"  "B+"  "B"  "C+"  "C"  "D+"  "D"  "W") WHICH GRADE YOU HAVE EARNED:

GRADE:___________

By submitting this grade sheet I hereby certify that all work submitted for this course is of my own original composition. ___________________________________________________

Note: You are asked to assign yourself the grade you believe you have earned. You should be a better judge, and know more honestly how you did, than just about anyone! However, your professor reserves the right to determine all final grades.

 

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Last updated: August 11, 2008.