JULY 2017 MASTER SCHEDULE MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults THURSDAY, JULY 6 NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION 12:00-1:00 Lunch GLC Art Gallery 1:15-2:15 Welcome, New Students GLC 100E First Semester Orientation: Introduction of faculty, program overview 2:30-4:30 Faculty Meeting CWP House 2:15-2:45 Review of schedule/ campus services overview GLC 100E 2:45 3:45 Library Introduction with Kate Borowske LIB 131 3:45 4:30 Photo IDs, Campus Tour Safety & Security 4:30 5:15 New Students meet with Hamline Buddies Anderson 111 5:15-6:30 Dinner/Q & A Session Anderson 111 FRIDAY, JULY 7 9:00-11:00 Faculty Meeting CWP House 9:00-10:00 IT Overview/Odds & Ends LIB 10 10:15-11:15 Shuttle to Target (Departs from behind the Apts) 11:00-12:15 Lunch Anderson Center 12:30-1:15 Welcome (All Students) GLC 100E 1:15-1:45 2nd Semester Orientation GLC 102E 3rd & 4th Semester Orientation GLC 100E 1:15-1:45 1 st Semester & Grad Assistants GLC 104E Guide to Successful Workshopping *2:00-3:00 Phyllis Root / Lecture GLC 100E Setting in PB Fiction and Nonfiction *3:15-4:15 Ron Koertge / Lecture GLC 100E The Novel-in-Verse: A Closer Than Usual Look 4:15-4:45 Community Catch-Up GLC 100E
4:45-5:15 Class Meetings First Semester: GLC 101; Second Semester: GLC 102E; Third Semester: GLC 103E; Fourth Semester: GLC 104E; Graduating Students: GLC Lobby 5:15-6:30 Opening Reception Anderson Patio Rainsite: AND 111/112 6:30 7:30 Faculty Reading GLC 100E Laurel Snyder, Jackie Briggs-Martin, Coe Booth 7:30-8:15 Alumni Reading GLC 100E SATURDAY, JULY 8 11:30 12:45 LGBTQ Meet & Greet Lunch Anderson 302 (Go through line and bring your tray to 302) 1:00-2:00 Victoria Marini / Lecture GLC 100E Everything You Want to Know About an Agent but Were Afraid to Ask *2:15-3:15 Coe Booth / Lecture GLC 100E Building (Real) Worlds 3:15-3:30 Community Catch-Up GLC 100E 3:30-4:15 Book Fair with Addendum Books GLC Lobby FREE EVENING (dinner on your own) and optional activity: Can Can Wonderland! www.cancanwonderland.com SUNDAY, JULY 9 11:30-12:45 Writers of Color Meet & Greet Lunch Anderson 302 (Go through line and bring your tray to 302) *1:00-2:30 Sherri Smith / Workshop GLC 247S Not Other, But Us: Writing with Insight and Empathy Required for all 1 st and 2 nd semester students. Continued on July 10.
*1:00-2:30 Gary Schmidt / Lecture GLC 202E When American Literature for Children Became American Required for all students entering 4 th semester and grads Continued on July 10 *1:00-2:30 Christine Heppermann / Workshop GLC 224W Writing and Researching the Extended Critical Essay Required for all students entering 3 rd semester, Continued on July 10 *2:45-3:45 Nina LaCour / Workshop GLC 100E Bringing Your Story to Life Through Setting: A Series of Exercises: Part I Will be continued on July 10 3:45-4:00 Community Catch-up/Snack GLC 100E 4:00-5:00 Meetings with former faculty advisors Arranged 5:00-6:45 Dinner on Your Own 6:45 7:45 Faculty Reading GLC 100E Anne Ursu, Phyllis Root, Gary Schmidt MONDAY, JULY 10 *1:00-2:30 Sherri Smith / Workshop GLC 247S Not Other, But Us: Writing with Insight and Empathy Required for all 1 st and 2 nd semester students *1:00-2:30 Gary Schmidt / Lecture GLC 202E When American Literature for Children Became American Required for all students entering 4 th semester and grads *1:00-2:30 Christine Hepperman / Workshop GLC 224W Writing and Researching the Extended Critical Essay Required for all students entering 3 rd semester *2:45-3:45 Nina LaCour / Workshop GLC 100E Bringing Your Story to Life Through Setting: A Series of Exercises: Part II *3:45-4:00 Social Time / Snack *4:00-5:00 Gene Yang / Lecture GLC 100E Story Bones: Giving Your Narrative A Structure 4:45-5:45 Dinner available in Anderson Anderson Center
6:45-7:45 Faculty Readings GLC 100E Sherri Smith, Gene Yang, Nina LaCour 7:45 Student Reading GLC 100E TUESDAY, JULY 11 *1:00-2:30 Swati Avasthi / Lecture GLC 100E Chronos in Training: Manipulating Chronology and Managing Time 2:30-3:00 Community Catch-Up / Snack Break GLC 100E *3:00-4:00 Jackie Briggs-Martin / Lecture GLC 100E Once Upon a Place: Setting and Folktales 4:00-5:30 Meetings with former semester advisors 4:00-5:30 Pat Francisco GLC 100E Writing the Critical Essay Note: This session is required for all incoming students and highly recommended for others. Anyone planning on doing one-on-one coaching with Pat Francisco must attend this session. 5:15-6:30 Special Dinner from Foxy Falafel (Cost: $12) CWP Backyard Rainsite: BSC HUB 6:45-7:15 Faculty Readings GLC 100E Swati Avasthi, Ron Koertge 7:30 Student Reading GLC 100E WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 FREE AFTERNOON & EVENING 6:30 Optional Activity: Blair Thornburgh s Who s That Girl Book Launch at Red Balloon Bookshop!! 4:30-5:45 pm Dinner available in Anderson Anderson Center
THURSDAY, JULY 13 (Last Day!) 11:30-12:45 Allies Discussion over Lunch Anderson 225 *1:00-2:00 Laurel Snyder / Lecture GLC 100E Beyond the Hero s Journey: Exploring Alternative Narrative Models *2:15-3:15 Extended Critical Essay Lectures GLC 100E Ronny Khuri Phenomenal Cosmic Powers! Itty-bitty Living Space: Tools and Strategies for Facilitating Reader-to-Character Identification through Extradiegetic Heterodiegetic Narration with Zero Focalization Stephanie Bongas Weaving the Past Into the Present: Managing Character Backstory to Create Mystery, Meaning, and Emotion in Narrative 3:15-3:45 Community Catch-Up / Snack GLC 100E FACULTY ADVISOR FORMS DUE IN CWP HOUSE BY 4:00 pm 3:45-4:45 Graduate Assistant Readings GLC 100E Ricki Thompson, Ellen Kazimer, Gina DeCiani, Shelley Jones 4:45-6:45 Dinner on Your Own 6:45-7:45 Grad Readings GLC 100E Regina Lloyd, Tina Hoggatt, Christy Reid FRIDAY, JULY 14 9:30-10:45 Jewell Parker Rhodes / Lecture and Reading GLC 100E Modeling the World: Creating Diverse and Empathetic Characters *11:00-12:00 Extended Critical Essay Lectures GLC 100E Laura King Discussing the Fact of Life: Addressing Death in Picture Books Rob Land Emotionally Distant First-Person Narrators: Ways in Which Gary Schmidt Gets to the Heart of Things 12:00-1:00 Lunch Anderson Center
12:00-1:00 Special lunch with new students Anderson 302 1:15-2:15 Tracy Maurer / Lecture GLC 100E Setting in Historical Nonfiction *2:30-3:30 Extended Critical Essay Lectures GLC 100E Sarah Woodard With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Exploring Agency and Conflict Through Characters With Invisible Physical Disabilities in Young Adult Literature Patti Sutton I've Never Met a Discourse I Didn't Like: The Visible Author in Nonfiction 3:30 Faculty Advisor Assignments Given Out GLC Gallery 3:45-4:15 Group meetings with faculty advisors As assigned 4:15-5:15 One-on-one meetings with faculty advisors Arranged 4:45-5:45 Dinner available in Anderson Anderson Center 6:45 Grad Readings GLC 100E Andrea Knight, Jan LaRoche, Dori Graham 8:30-10 Picture Book Read Around Apartment Lounge SATURDAY, JULY 15 PROSPECTIVE STUDENT DAY *9:15-10:15 Anne Ursu / Lecture GLC 100E Training Dumbledore's Army: Middle-Grade Fantasy, Politics, and Social Justice 10:30-11:30 Alumni (with Books Published) Panel GLC 100E J.J. Austrian, Molly Beth Griffin, Sarah Ahiers, Mandy Davis 11:30-1:00 Lunch Anderson Center 11:30 1:00 Prospective Student Lunch Anderson 305 *1:00-2:00 Extended Critical Essay Lectures GLC 100E Christine McDonnell Out of the Bowl: Empathy and the Portrayal of the Homeless in Picture Books and Middle Grade Fiction Renée McCormick Genre Blending: How to Create a Synergistic Emotional Effect 2:00 2:30 Community Catch Up/ Break GLC 100E
2:45-3:45 Grad Readings GLC 100E Blair Thornburgh, Barbara Roberts, Lily LaMotte, Lily Tschudi-Campbell 3:45-5:15 One-on-one meetings with faculty advisors 5:15-6:45 Dinner on Your Own 6:45 Grad Readings GLC 100E Jamieson Haverkampf, Justina Ireland, Stephanie Wilson, Aimee Lucido SUNDAY, JULY 16 10:30-11:30 Wrap Up: What Did We Learn? GLC 100E 11:30-12:45 Lunch 1:00-2:00 Gennifer Choldenko / Q & A GLC 104E Graduates 1:00-2:00 Faculty: The Writing Life GLC 100E Marketing and Promoting Yourself as a Writer 2:15-3:00 One-on-one meetings with faculty advisors Arranged 3:00 Graduates and faculty report to Drew Fine Arts/Simley Theater for lineup *3:30-4:30 Graduation Ceremony Simley Theater Keynote Address by Gennifer Choldenko: The Secret Lives of Children's Book Authors 4:30-6:30 Reception and Closing Banquet Kay Fredericks Room (Note: an area to turn in semester study plans and residency reflections will be available at reception/banquet.) The end.