Tuesday 6 Feb: Overview of Schools of Literary Criticism; Dr. Hammond's handout; my quick guide; my essay on Post-Structuralism; HW: Brainstorm critical schools that are of interest
Wednesday 7 Feb: Literary history and literary criticism/theory review exercise; Here's the assignment sheet for the paper; Work on proposal and rudimentary JSTOR research Thursday 8 Feb: Quiz: Literary History and Literary Criticism; More proposal work; proposal due by 10pm Friday 9 Feb: Poetry unit begins while you write the AK paper at home; review "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Here are the main dates for the paper: Proposal due: by 10pm Thursday, February 8 Simple bibliography of 5 sources and refined proposal: Tuesday, February 13 by 10pm Thesis and Informal outline: Wednesday, February 21 Well written draft due: Tuesday, March 5 Hot seat opens Wednesday, March 13, closes Tuesday, March 25 (appointments assigned) Paper due: Tuesday, March 26 in class Here is a pdf of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction Monday 12 Feb: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 13 February: No class; Carnevale; Simple Bibliography and refined proposal due by 10pm Wednesday 14 February: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; overall emotional effect (Poe); exercise with multiple poems Thursday 15 February: Mrs. Walsh on field trip; workday for paper Friday 16 February: No class; half day Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents Day Tuesday 20 February: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; closed forms reviewed (take good notes) Wednesday 21 February: Thesis and Informal Outline due; Closed form review: form, meter, line, (line endings, framing, pace); 3 of Shakespeare's sonnets Thursday 22 February: Image, Symbol, Metaphor and Simile Friday 23 February: 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); useful repetition handout Monday 26 February: Useful Repetition redux; Antithesis, Oxymoron, Paradox; Sound Tropes; review of fundamentals; trope review Tuesday 27 February: Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); review using sample poems; review for poetry fundamentals test; Here is scansion worksheet Wednesday 28 February: shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Thursday 29 February: Additional scansion review and some cold analysis; here is a clean answer sheet for the cold poems; here are poems: "The Panther," "The Passionate Shepherd," "To Autumn," and "I Go Back to May 1937"; here are answers for "The Panther," "The Passionate Shepherd...," "To Autumn," and "I Go Back to May 1937." Here is a second packet and a quick screencast about process, focusing on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool." Friday 1 March: Poetry fundamentals test with some cold analysis Monday 4 March: AP FRQ 1 (Poetry) practice; here's a sample to help you think about a worthy poem and a possible prompt; here are sample answers and scoring (it's the old 9-point rubric, but you can see what's successful) Tuesday 5 March: Well written draft of AK paper (with works cited page) due at 10pm Comments are closed.
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