Monday 25 January: Discuss midterm; hot seats for the AK Parts 1–4 paper Tuesday 26 January: Poetry unit begins while you write at home; review "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Wednesday 27 January: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; overall emotional effect (Poe); exercise with multiple poems; "The Next Day" Thursday 28 January: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; closed forms reviewed (take good notes); Hot seat closes for AK Parts 1–4 paper; hot seat sheet is here Friday 29 January: No class; March for Life day Monday 1 February: AK Parts 1–4 Paper due by class time; fill out hot seat sheet; Schools of Literary Criticism lecture in class; Dr. Hammond's handout; my quick guide; AK Sourced Paper assigned Tuesday 2 February: Proposal writing and discussion in class Wednesday 3 February: Research on JSTOR day; bring laptop to class Thursday 4 February: MLA style reviewed; scope and depth of paper; other research paper issues; more work on closed forms and what they can do; extra credit poem assigned Friday 5 February: Proposal for paper due; proposals returned via the assignment in Jupiter Monday 8 February: No School; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 9 February: Literary history and literary criticism/theory review exercise Wednesday 10 February: Closed form review: form, meter, line, (line endings, framing, pace) Thursday 11 February: Image, Symbol, Metaphor and Simile Friday 12 February: No class; half day. Works Consulted page due: MLA style (format, spacing, hang indentation), 5-6 sources (so that you can cut a less useful source later); put revised thesis/topic/question/proposal at the top Monday 15 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 16 February: Literary history and literary theory quest (25 minutes); rhetorical figures (check out Liturgy Guys episode [Season 2, episode 24, "Pete and Repeat..."; begin at 4:10 after the banter; substance starts at 8:10 or so] for related tropes as we see them in the Mass) Wednesday 17 February: Antithesis, Oxymoron, Paradox; Sound Tropes; review of fundamentals; trope review Thursday 18 February: Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); review using sample poems; review for poetry fundamentals quiz Friday 19 February: shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Monday 22 February: Poetry fundamentals quiz Tuesday 23 February: Cold poem sequence practice Wednesday 24 February: Cold poem sequence for score; Review for Poetry Test; Here is scansion worksheet; here is key to scansion worksheet; here is a clean answer sheet for the cold poems; here are the cold poems from class; keys: Hayden, Donne, Dickinson, Kumin; here is a quick screencast about process. Thursday 25 February: Poetry Unit Test Friday 26 February: Informal Outline for AK paper due by 10pm Comments are closed.
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