Monday 4 January: Poetry unit begins: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students); introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets; HW: Finish reading "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Tuesday 5 January: Any remaining "Nun's Priest" due; Chaucer seminar and set-up for midterm Chaucer question; Chaucer activity Wednesday 6 January: Midterm study guide available; More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples (not uploaded here because student material--handed out in class and emailed to remote students); sonnet assignment made (here is checklist) Thursday 7 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines; HW: Decide on sonnet topic and write couplet Friday 8 January: Rhyme and gesture; image, metaphor, and symbol; how to write a symbol in your poem (i.e., "The natural object is the adequate symbol.") Monday 11 January: Drafting the sonnet; sonnet checklist Tuesday 12 January: "A Green Crab's Shell": Gestural structure Wednesday 13 January: "A Green Crab's Shell," "Shirt": Speaker and occasion; Other examples: effects of form Midterm short answer review Thursday 14 January: Draft of sonnet due for workshop Friday 15 January: Lessons from workshop, review for midterm Monday 18 January: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day; no classes Midterms Midterm for English 10 will be 10:30am Thursday ************ Welcome to Q3 Monday 25 January: Review of poetry concepts so far: Lyricism, sonnet forms, gestural structure, speaker and occasion; effects of form; sample poems from Sound and Sense; HW: work on sonnet; pdf assignment Tuesday 26 January: image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; HW: work on sonnet Wednesday 27 January: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; HW: work on sonnet Thursday 28 January: Final sonnet due, along with draft work, in one uploaded pdf file with the version to grade on top--or on paper in class; celebratory reading; explication assignment made; poem choices possible Friday 29 January: No classes; March for Life Monday 1 February: Poem choices due; poems from The Wild Iris: effects of line Tuesday 2 February: Workday for poem explication: speaker and occasion Wednesday 3 February: Workday for poem explication: theme Thursday 4 February: Workday for poem explication: form Friday 5 February: Workday for poem explication: image Monday 8 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 9 February: Workday for poem explication: sound tropes Wednesday 10 February: Putting it all together; draft of paper due by 10pm Thursday 11 February: Poetry unit review; poetry review #2 Friday 12 February: No class; half day Monday 15 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 16 February: Poetry unit test; receive draft feedback Wednesday 17 February: Henry V introduction in class; History handout; Related Plays handout; HW: work on finalizing paper Thursday 18 February: Snow day! HW: work on finalizing paper Friday 19 February: Snow day! HW: finalize paper Final version of poetry paper due by class time Monday 22 February; Presentations Monday (volunteers eligible for extra credit), Tuesday, Wednesday Henry V Background Notes due Wednesday 24 February by 10pm. Thursday 25 February: In-school Field Trip: Henry V; character-theme handout; HW: 20 minutes of notes Friday 26 February: Last of the poetry presentations; 20 minutes in order to deepen the character and theme notes; here is the assignment for the upcoming in-class writing Monday 1 March: Character-Theme activity; prep for in-class writing Tuesday 2 March: In-class writing Wednesday 3 March: Henry round-up; relationship of the monarch to the people discussion; handout for activity |