, Monday 29 January: Narrative vs. Lyric; the sonnet; gestural structure
Tuesday 30 January: Snow Delay Wednesday 31 January: More with poems in play: "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Thursday 1 February: Relationships of various elements to overall emotional effect Friday 2 February: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Monday 5 February: No School; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 6 February: Informal Outline and Draft of Sourced Argument due as PDF to Jupiter, double spaced, with a title and a heading. Submit both items as one file, please. Draft of paper should include works-cited page. In class: More with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; here is that sound trope handout Wednesday 7 February: Snow Day Thursday 8 February: Field Trip to see Hamlet at Shakespeare Theatre Friday 9 February: Comprehensive review: meter, line, form; Cold poem exercise Monday 12 February: Device review: image, symbol, metaphor and simile, metonymy and synecdoche; 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 of repetition as we see them in the Mass) Tuesday 13 February: Devices: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox (Hot seat opens for AK sourced argument paper) Wednesday 14 February: Sound tropes; other devices Thursday 15 February: Closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet) Friday 16 February: Shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 20 February: Cold poem practice sequence (speed analysis); absent students should make up by Wednesday: here is the answer sheet (you will need 2 of those) and the poems are in the same document; AP students should do 4 poems in 20 minutes, while grade-level students should do three poems in that time. Time yourself, please. Wednesday 21 February: Test: Poetry devices and principles Thursday 22 February: In-class writing: Cold poem exercise Comments are closed.
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