Welcome to English Studies
North Dakota Governor's School, 2009
 
 

Program Information
Goals, Faculty, Meeting Places, and More

Our Daily Schedule
Where We'll Be, What We'll Be Doing

Questions?
Cindy.Nichols@ndsu.edu
Governor's School Main Page

 
 
Program Information

Rooms We Will Use

  • IACC 116
  • SE 314 (English Lab)
  • Minard 346

Goals

During your three-week stay, you will gain an intensive overview of the many disciplines within English Studies, including some cutting-edge electronic and Web explorations.  You will do a lot of writing, produce your own online magazine, and publish your own poems, stories, essays, memoirs (you get to decide).

And: you will have what we hope will be a challenging, inspirational, and uncommon experience in English.


Activities and Schedule Overview

Each day of our three weeks, following your morning Life and Leadership period, is loosely divided into six segments: Announcements, Guest Speaker, Reading and Reflection, Workshop I, Outing, and Workshop II. You will hear lectures, participate in group discussions, write independently as well as collaboratively, perform thinking and writing exercises, venture out into the Fargo/Moorhead community, and, ultimately, present some of your work to the larger Governor's School community. Your work will be published in online magazines of your own making, as well as in the Fargo Hall of the National Gallery of Writing.


Faculty and Facilitators

Ms. Cynthia Nichols, Cindy.Nichols@ndsu.edu, 231-7024 or 236-8233
Dr. Kelly Sassi, Kelly.Sassi@ndsu.edu, 231-7156
Dr. Bruce Maylath, Bruce.Maylath@ndsu.edu, 231-7176
Dr. Verena Theile, Verena.Theile@ndsu.edu, 231-7152
Ms. Melissa Vosen, Melissa.Vosen@ndsu.edu, 231-6314
Jennie Enger, jennie.enger@ndsu.edu
Katie Gunter, katie.gunter@ndsu.edu

 

Notebooks: Writing to Learn

Your notebook will be a key tool in your daily experience here, and should be carried with you at all times. It will be used for journaling, doodling, freewriting, and brainstorming; for exercises and workshop assignments; for drafts of your to-be-published work; and for just about anything you wish. We will provide you with a notebook, though you are free to use a "fancy book," laptop, or other instrument of your choosing.


Resources

http://www.blogger.com (this is where you'll sign in to our blog, view Dashboard, and make postings)

http://govschoolenglish.blogspot.com/ (this is where you can view the published blog)

National Gallery of Writing and National Day of Writing

Skittish Libations

 

Cell Phones:

Many of you use cellular telephones and iPods; turn them and other electronic devices off in class, unless we are doing an activity that involves music or video. Ringing phones or texting may result in the device being confiscated for the day.


Special Needs

In keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act, students with disabilities who need accommodations in this course should contact us as soon as possible so that the appropriate arrangements can be made to accommodate particular needs.

 
Daily Schedule
(subject to changes)
 

Day 1, Mon., June 8

9:30-10:00: Announcements/Getting Started (IACC 116)


10-11:30: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
What is English Studies?

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)
Exploring online resources of general interest to the student of English Studies:

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-3:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)
Overview of the Magazine Project, including Editorial Boards (pre-selected) & Peer Conference Groups (self-selected).

3:00-4:00: Workshop II (IACC 116 or Jitters)

  • Blogger.com: define "creative writing": what is it, what's it for, whom is it for?
  • Online reading assignment for next day: one short story, one work of flash fiction, and selection of poems.

Day 2, Tues. June 9

9:30-11:00: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Nichols: Intro to Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies

  • What is this stuff?: examine blog entries from yesterday.
  • Respond to favorite quotations in Skittish Libations & create perspectives wheel.
  • Power Point show: Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies


11:00-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)

  • Look at assigned stories and poems in connection with wheel.
  • Browse NDSU Creative Writing sites: 323 and 423
  • Getting started: Harmonious Confusion.
12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)

     The Oral Tradition: Spoken Word Poetry.

2:00-3:00: Outing

     An English Major's Tour of Campus

3:00-4:00: Workshop II (IACC 116)

  • Running student publications.
  • Determine current summer's magazine goals and types of documents.
  • Form editorial boards and conference groups.

Day 3, Wed. June 10

9:30 -11:30: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Introduction to Composition Studies

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)
 
12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)
Read a selection of Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings.

2:00-4:00: Workshop II (IACC 116)
Notebooking.

Day 4, Thurs. June 11

9:30-11:30: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Introduction to Linguistics

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00 or 2:30: Workshop I (IACC 116)
Linguistics activity.

2:00-4:00: Workshop II (IACC 116)
Notebooking.

Day 5, Fri. June 12

9:30-11:30: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Introduction to Literature Studies.

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)
 
12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)
Literature activity.

2:00-4:00 (SE 314 or IACC 150 or Jitters)
Drink icy mocha drinks and write at Jitters coffee shop.

Day 6, Mon., June 15

9:30-11:00: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Introduction to to Rhetoric.

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)
 
12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)
Rhetoric activity.

2:00-3:00: Outing or other   (SE 314)
 
3:00-4:00: Workshop II (SE 314 or IACC 150)

  • Writing drafts due.
  • First conference group critique.

Day 7, Tues., June 16

9:30-10:00: Announcements/Getting Started (IACC 116)

10:00-11:30:Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Introduction to Technical Writing.

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)
Technical writing activity.

2:00-3:00: Outing
To-be-announced
 
3:00-4:00: Workshop II (SE 314)
Intensive writing.

Day 8, Wed. June 17

9:30-11:15: Announcements/Getting Started (IACC 116)
Introduction to English Education: Want to Become a Teacher?

11:15-12:00: Workshop I (SE 314)
Education activity.
 
12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop II (IACC 116)
Education activity and work on magazine.

2:00-3:00: Outing
Attend college literacy class.

3:15-4:00 Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)

Day 9, Thurs., June 18

9:30-11:30: Morning Seminar (IACC 116)
Designing your magazines!

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)
 
12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116) 
Working on your writing and magazines.

2:00-4:00: Workshop II
Writing activities.

Day 10, Fri., June 19

Everyone goes to Minneapolis. No classes or workshops.

Day 11, Mon., June 22

9:00-10:30: Morning Seminar: Special Topics (IACC 116)
Visual Language and Culture

  • What is visual language? What is visual culture?
  • Comics.
  • The big triangle, word picture relations, color, and lines.

10:30-12:00 Workshop II (IACC 116)

  • Work submitted to editorial boards.
  • Boards work on submissions.
  • Boards return work with suggestions.

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:30: Workshop I/Outing (IACC 116)

  • Off-campus guest Deb Dawson shares her work with African Soul, American Heart, plus tips on taking photos and what she has done with her English and MFA degree.
  • The photo essay: a trip around campus, taking photos for the magazine.

2:30-4:00:Workshop II (SE 314)  

Day 12, Tues., June 23

9:30-11:30: Morning Seminar: Special Topics  (IACC 116)
Writing for the Web: Blogs, Twitter, YouTube
Blogger

11:30-12:00: Reading and Reflection (IACC 116)

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)
More work with Web Writing.

2:00-4:00: Workshop II (SE 314)
Marketing your project with new media.

Day 13, Wed., June 24

9:30-11:00: Workshop I (IACC 116)

  • Final revisions to magazine completed and submitted to board.
  • Magazine layout.

11:00-12:00: Morning Seminar: Special Topics (IACC 116)
Shakespeare in Film (pending)

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:00: Workshop II or Afternoon Seminar: Special Topics (IACC 116, with Cindy's 323)
With guest David Martinson: The Book Arts

2:00-3:00 Outing (SE 314)

2:30-4:00: Workshop II (SE 314)
Miscellaneous.

Day 14, Thurs., June 25

9:30-11:00: Looking Back Seminar

  • So: what is English Studies?
  • What is the future of English Studies?
  • What are options for advanced degrees?
  • What do you see yourself doing (if anything) as a future English student?
  • What have you gained so far from the Governor's School experience?

11:00-12:00: Workshop I
Tutorial on public performance and reading.
 
12:00-1:00 : Lunch

1:00-2:30: Outing
Perform work at Jitters with English 323 (NDSU Creative Writing II) students

2:30-4:00: Workshop (SE 314)

  • Complete magazine.
  • Work on remaining odds and ends.
  • Continue rehearsals.
  • English program evaluations.

Day 15, Fri., June 26 

WRAP UP!

  • Run off fliers, set up for evening presentation.
  • Magazine uploaded to web.
  • Final rehearsals.
  • Final notebook reflections.
  • Evening presentation for rest of Governor's School.

 

 

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