ENG 107 - University of Kentucky Fall 2022

  Review of Previous Writing Wednesday 9/7 Write down your favorite song lyric that contains imagery as a story telling device. How are images used in writing? Read chapter 2 of Imaginative Writing. Know how to create images that appeal to the senses of the reader how to define and explain concrete, significant details how to define and use figures of speech to enhance the ways you use images in your writing American History Looks for Light - A Prayer for the Survival  of Barack Obama  by  Roger Bonair - Agard  Friday 9/10 Meet in your individual sections with your TAs Quiz 

        Please post your observations for Try This 1.3 on canvas.  Take a notebook with you to any public place and make a list of the proper names you find there (a graveyard, a candy. store, a restaurant, a street, a theater...) Write a paragraph of anything at all that these names, or one of them, suggests to you. 

   The War of the Wall  by Toni Cade Bambara Review  The War of the Wall .  Identify your favorite parts.  This is how we will begin our transformation process of becoming a reader of a writerly sort.  What are the story plots and story elements?  Which ones are you impressed by?  How do you intend to use these elements in your writing to make it better?  How are intending to combine these elements with others to refresh your writing? How does this exercise help you to better understand what a reader of a writerly sort is?

  There are a few key words and vocabulary terms in Chapter 1. Please list two of the terms and their definitions in the comments box. 

  1. List the ideas from the chapter that are important to you? 2.  What does Aristotle teach us in this chapter?  How did his words change, challenge, or affirm what you already think you know?

  Warm-UP Regard the art on the cover of this book. Relax, focus, take in the colors and composition. Then freewrite a page of anything it suggests to you, reminds you of, or makes you feel.  You don't need to make sense of sentences, nor stick to the subject.  Just let it flow. Put the page away for a week.Take it out and see: Is there anything here you might use? Any idea worth more thought? Any phrase of image to pursue?

  Agenda - Week 2  Write Reminder about release forms Attendance Monday 8/29 Review canvas posts/discussions Wednesday 8/31 Review of Chapter One Discuss what we gained What type of reader is "of a writerly sort"? Read like a writer Friday 9/2 Quiz

 

You will receive an announcement about your quiz on Friday that will be completed via canvas. 

  1. Self-portrait free writing 2. Review of Agenda 3. Review of Syllabi 4. Origin Story free writing 5. Quiz Homework for Week 2 1. Read Chapter 1