Wednesday 4 January: Midterm overview; Begin poetry (not on midterm): lyric and narrative; Poetry unit begins: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students)
Thursday 5 January: Introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets; vocab list for midterm distributed Friday 6 January: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples; sonnet assignment made (here is checklist); midterm short answer review distributed Monday 9 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines Tuesday 10 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."); Decide on sonnet topic and write couplet; hand in work so far Wednesday 11 January: Midterm review in class: Vocabulary game for house points (What!) Thursday 12 January: Midterm review in class: Short answer review Friday 13 January: Last-minute midterm review: Essay review Midterms: The English Midterm is on Tuesday, January 17, at 8:45am in Fellowship Hall Comments are closed.
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