SYLLABUS: Fiction Workshop (Fall 2019)

Oakhill Humanities Project—Fiction Workshop Syllabus

Fall Semester 2019

Text: The Story and Its Writer (5th editions), Ann Charters

Attendance Policy: In accordance with OCI policy, if you are absent from any two class sessions, you will be removed from the class.

Book Return Policy: If you are transferred or don’t complete the course, please return the text book to the Oakhill School Office. The instructors will collect books at the end of the 8-week session.

Instructors: Ron Kuka, Christopher Chambers, Gabriel Louis, Emily Shetler

Week 1:

“House on Mango Street,” etc… by Sandra Cisneros, page 180

Week 2:

“The Red Convertible,” by Louise Erdrich, page 283

Week 3:

“The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien , page 605

Week 4:

“The Use of Force,” by William Carlos Williams, page 761

Week 5:

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin, page 490

Week 6:

“The Old Chief Mshlanga,” by Doris Lessing, page 496

Week 7:

“The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” by Richard Wright, page 765

Week 8:

“Civil Peace,” by Chinua Achebe, page 10