Welcome to Contemporary Writers 2011-2012

1. Go over course criteria sheet and overview of course

2. Introduction to Anne Michaels--go to website, read poems. We'll be getting the novel next week.

3. Look at Fugitive Pieces movie  trailer--video bar.  We have the full movie that you can see as we finish the novel.  This is a novel about the power of memory and its hold upon us.

4. Writing Exercise: The Role of Memory
from Natalie Goldberg's Old Friend from Far Away Test #1
I Remember/I Don't Remember exercise
  http://www.nataliegoldberg.com/

5. Who is Natalie Goldberg?  Writers should know who she is. Check out the website:
http://www.nataliegoldberg.com/