Thursday 1 March: Cantos IX and X Friday 2 March: No class; St. Anselm's Monday 5 March: Student-led discussions begin: Cantos XI (Gabby) and XII (Grace C.) Tuesday 6 March: Cantos XIII (Grace C.) and XIV (Gabby) Wednesday 7 March: Cantos XV (Vanessa) and XVI (Olivia) Thursday 8 March: Canto XVII (Josephine), Review Cantos I-XVII Friday 9 March: Test Cantos I-XVII Monday 12 March: Purgatorio journals assigned; Cantos XVIII (Marisol) and XIX (Kateri) Tuesday 13 March: Cantos XX (Gillian) and XXI (G Tiff) Wednesday 14 March: Class canceled for Gala practice Thursday 15 March: Cantos XXII (Grace B.) and XXIII (Claire) Friday 16 March: Cantos XXIV (G Tiff) and XXV (Elizabeth) Monday 19 March: Cantos XXVI (Josephine) and XXVII (Julia) Tuesday 20 March: Cantos XXVIII (Katie) and XXIX (Zoe) Wednesday 21 March: Snow day! Thursday 22 March: Cantos XXX (Belency) and XXXI (Ariana) Friday 23 March: Cantos XXXII (Veronica) and XXXIII (Olivia) Monday 26 March: Review, Cantos XVIII-end; Purgatorio journals due (5 short [150–200 words], 5 long [400+ words]) Tuesday 27 March: Test, Purgatorio Wednesday 28 March: In-class workday for Q3 reflective memo; bring Q3 poetry paper or device on which paper can be read; Q3 Reflective Memo due at the end of class Easter Break! I Monday 29 January: Lyric vs. Narrative poetry; receive Sound and Sense; choose poem for explication
Tuesday 30 January: Sonnets: "That time of year" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; effects of form Wednesday 31 January: Gestural structure; speaker and occasion Thursday 1 February: image, symbol, metaphor; Sound tropes (handout to help) Friday 2 February: No school; half day Monday 5 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 6 February: Cold poem to review ideas, sample explication; use Perrine as a reference to make sure ideas are defensible; review of academic integrity principles, especially for this paper Wednesday 7 February: Other devices: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox Thursday 8 February: Draft of explication due by midnight, uploaded as a PDF; workday in class Friday 9 February: Diction: Denotation and connotation Monday 12 February: Effects of line Tuesday 13 February: No class; Carnevale Assembly Wednesday 14 February: Poem presentations (5 min. each, start on time) Thursday 15 February: Poem presentations (5 min. each, start on time) Friday 16 February: No class; half day Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 20 February: Introduction to Purgatorio; books assigned for presentation; Final draft of explication due by midnight, uploaded as a PDF Wednesday 21 February: Canto I in class Thursday 22 February: Cantos II and III Friday 23 February: Cantos IV and V Monday 26 February: No homework is due, by headmaster decree Tuesday 27 February: Cantos VI and VII Wednesday 28 February: Canto VIII |