The idea for this little chunk of time is that instruction continues in class for the Poetry unit while you are gathering materials and reviewing for the midterm as homework. Week of 3 Jan (many snow days): Midterm overview; Midterm study guide available; begin to gather materials; Poetry unit begins: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students); Monday 10 January: Introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets; vocab list for midterm distributed Tuesday 11 January: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples; sonnet assignment made (here is checklist) Wednesday 12 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines; HW: midterm short answer review Thursday 13 January: Short answer review 1; vocab review Rhyme and gesture; image, metaphor, and symbol; how to write a symbol in your poem (i.e., "The natural object is the adequate symbol."); Decide on sonnet topic and write couplet Friday 14 January: Last minute review for midterm Comments are closed.
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