English 221: Intro to Creative Writing
Agenda: January 29

• Thoughts on Self-Audits
• 3 C’s: Complete, Clear, Complex
• Quiz on Imagery
• Continue conversation of “Shunned”
• A Sample Reading Response: Discussion on Analysis and the qualities of a good reading response

For Next Time: 1/31

WRITE: A Reading Response, focusing on Imagery, on one of the following readings: The Ring of Time, The Diamond Mine, The Hawk in the Rain, Snow Day, Facing It, or The Naming of Parts. 2-3 pages

READ: Strunk & White: Foreword, Introduction, and Chapter 1.

PREPARE for Quiz on Thursday: You must be able to write out, from memory, Rules #4 & 5, giving both correct and incorrect examples of each rule, and write out, from memory, one other rule from the chapter, of your choice, giving both correct and incorrect examples of the rule.