Revision of Schedule for March 10th and 12th:

Dear Students,

I have also e-mailed you this schedule change, with the two handouts attached. 

First, I apologize for Wednesday's last-minute cancellation; I was stuck in traffic and the earliest I would have made it was half the class late. I also apologize for not getting you the revised schedule up sooner.

The college already had extended the academic semester an entire 3 days prior to Monday's cancellation. We wouldn't have needed those extensions because we hadn't missed a class meeting; however, because this week's trials against Titan and traffic, we can use that extra Monday (and possibly Wednesday) to hold class.

Having thought about it over the last day, here is the course of action I would like us to take so that we can attempt to do some workshopping next week. 

First,  Assignment 5 wildcard is attached to the message in your school e-mail (I left the original due date, but you can have until the Wednesday if you need). Also, I attached the "How to workshop" handout so that you can get started on reading it. 

Second, as for how we handle getting everyone's revised poem for workshop. Instead of having until only tomorrow as I had originally written in the latest blog post, if you can send me an e-mail with the poem you want to workshop, please do so by Sunday night. If you want me to read and give feedback on your Elegy or Ode prior to Monday's class, send that poem through e-mail as soon as you can. Please note whether you intend for this to be your workshop poem. My goal is to be able to distribute a packet of each of your poems on Monday so that we can begin workshop on Wednesday. 

I will be scanning your Sonnets as soon as I can, just in case you wanted to use them for the workshop.

My goal for class on Monday is:  Discuss your elegy/ode and annotations, discuss the White Space options (a few of you e-mailed me your versions of those poems), and to discuss Mimicking the Writer 1.

My goal for Wednesday's class: Workshop 2-3 students as a class; provide my written feedback to the other 2-3 students who aren't workshopped until the Monday after spring break.

The Midterm will be pushed back a little, as we will use the first Monday back from spring break to finish workshop. Then, we will transition to fiction writing on that Wednesday. 

I know that is a lot of information, so please e-mail me with any concerns or confusions.

With regard,

Professor A.