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Week 3 Plan:

Class Meeting:
Monday, September 25th, 4:00-5:30pm ET on campus and in Zoom.

1. Dialogue on Readings

• step 1: freewriting: In the moments (or periods) when you are at your most creative, what is happening with your thoughts, feelings, and the circumstances around you?
• step 2: dialogue: "everyone can be a creative thinker"

2. Notes on preparing for next week's Work-in-progress Presentation.

Assignments Due Next Week (Oct. 2):

1. Readings:

• a. Metcalf, The Sound of a Voice Thinking (Chapter 1 from Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice). Note that this file contains both Chapters 1 and 2 from this book. Read Chapter 1 (pages 1-15) by our Week 4 class meeting (Oct. 2nd). Then, read Chapter 2 (pages 16-38) by the Week 5 meeting (Oct. 16th).
• b. OPTIONAL: Stokes, Creativity from Constraints, Chapter 4, Constraints for Creativity in Art
• c. OPTIONAL: Jarrett, Does Reading Literature Really Beef Up Your Brain?

2. Prepare for next week's Work-in-progress presentations, using the information given in this link.

3. Now that you have been reading more about creativity and constraints, identify (some of) the constraints that you will use to help narrow down the nature of your Written/Creative Product for Theme 1. Recall that constraints, in the most basic form, are helpful limitations (limitations that you place on yourself that can be seen to give you direction and focus rather than cut off creative directions). Submit a brief Written/Creative Product proposal through your wiki page by completing the Theme 1 Constraint Worksheet.

4. Continue to identify additional readings or other resources (from outside of the class) that contribute to your thinking about your Written/Creative Product (and remember that the Written/Creative Product is due in two weeks, on Oct. 9th.

5. Make your Literature/Arts Reflection Journal entry for this week. Submit your journal through your wiki page (this is assignment W3a, the first submission of the journal). After you submit it this time, you won't submit it again until the next due date of Novembre 6th.