English 9 (Creative Nonfiction) Schedule

This schedule is tentative.

It might be updated, 

so check it twice daily.

Mon. 3/23

Revision Due: Profile of Place/Person #2

Student Manuscript Readings

Best American Essay groups meet
Wed. 3/25

Brian Turner Readings (find them on English with McCabe). 

For Turner: review the whole post on English with McCabe, but read the two excerpts from his memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, the New York Times Book Review, and the article from the Telegraph.
Best American Essay group essays and dates assigned
Mon. 3/30

CN: Pearson (45)

Brian Turner Readings
Tue. 3/31

PCC closed - Cesar Chavez Holiday
Wed. 4/1

Best American Essay group (Art, Victoria, Augusto)
Best: Baxter's "What Happens in Hell" (142)

In-class: Brian Turner Readings
Thurs. 4/2

Borders of Diversity Conference with Brian Turner
Mon. 4/6

CN: Dillard (357)
See Creative Nonfiction's Issue #55, Spring 2015, The Memoir Issue.
Wed. 4/8

Best American Essay group (Eva, Graham, Nick Serki): Sullivan's "Ghost Estates" (236)
Best American Essay group (Jessica, Marissa, Nick Sanchez): Yang's "Field Notes on Hair" (217)

Mon. 4/13

Class Canceled

Due: Memoir Draft (Typed 7-8 pages.) Leave one copy with the English Dept., C245, by Monday April 13th, 5:00PM. Get it time-stamped. Be sure your name and my name is on your draft.

Wed. 4/15
Class visit with Tracy Dolezal Macrum of South Pasadena Review, The Quarterly Magazine &
SouthPasadenaNow.com
Review SouthPasadenaNow.com and copies of The Quarterly distributed earlier in the semester.
Best American Essay group (Mavi, Acacia): Mirsky's "Epilogue" (266). Everyone reads essay.
Bring one copy of your Memoir Draft to class

Mon. 4/20
BRING A COPY OF YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS
Best American Essay group (Mavi, Acacia): Mirsky's "Epilogue" (266). 

Best American Essay group (Casey, Alex, Andrew): Munro's "Night" (17)

Wed. 4/22
BRING A CLEAN COPY OF YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS
Best: Daniels (225)
Best: Gilb (254)

Mon. 4/27

Revision Due: Memoir (Typed 7-8 pages)
This is the FINAL REVISION.
I will collect it and grade it.

Student Manuscript Readings

Wed. 4/29

Student Manuscript Readings
Best: Smith (188)

Monday, May 4th, 10:15 AM—12:15 PM

Final Exam Meeting

Inscape Submissions Due today by 9:00 A.M.
It must be perfectly edited, proofread and follow submission guidelines. See Inscape submission guidelines for details.
Send it to me at cjmccabe@pasadena.edu
You must attend class--be there by 10:15 AM--today and verify that I have received your submission. If, however, you fear not being able to attend this meeting, send your work days earlier--Friday, May 1st, by midnight--and await my email reply that I have received it. If you don't get an email response from me, I didn't receive it.
This submission counts towards 10% of your course grade.

Follow-up: Writings about Rape on College Campuses

On Monday, 4/6/15, Alex initiated a discussion and others joined in, raising questions about the Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. The New Yorker's George Packer writes about the topic in "Rolling Stone and the Temptations of Narrative Journalism", an April 6, 2015 column. Also, in The New Yorker, April 24, 2015, is Margaret Talbot's "Going to Court in Jon Krakauer’s "Missoula'" about Jon Krakuer's book Missoula, which "remind[s] us of what a brave and risky thing it still is for a woman to report a rape."