Monday 23 January: Review of sonnet ideas so far: lyricism, Petrarchan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, gestural structure, iambic pentameter, student sonnet samples, professional sonnet samples. HW: Brainstorm poem: people, relationships, objects, art (begin with the concrete)
Tuesday 24 January: Accessible language (Howe, Kunitz); Dense language (Hopkins, Owen); discuss brainstorming; write a couplet; HW: build more poem (keep it imagistic) Wednesday 25 January: Class collaborative sonnet (solving problems of rhyme and meter); Effects of line (Glück); HW: build more poem Thursday 26 January: Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; Brainstorming and workday; HW: build more sonnet Friday 27 January: No class; guest speaker Monday 30 January: Draft of sonnet due for workshop; consider a meeting with the teacher this week to discuss sonnet; HW: Work on sonnet; choose poem for explication; upload poem choice (title and author) to assignment in Jupiter by 8am Tuesday Tuesday 31 January: No class; Gala practice; indicate poem choice on Jupiter by 3:30pm Wednesday 1 February: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; explication assigned Thursday 2 February Explication day 1: Speaker and Occasion Friday 3 February: Final sonnet due; celebratory reading; Explication day 2: Theme Monday 6 February: Explication day 3: Form Tuesday 7 February: Explication day 4: Image Wednesday 8 February: Explication day 5: Sound; Trope Review; here's a vowel chart to make Madison feel better about the whole thing; putting it all together Thursday 9 February: Notes pages and draft of paper due in class; Poetry unit review; poetry review #2 Friday 10 February: Poetry unit test Monday 13 February: Headmaster's Holiday; no classes Tuesday 14 February: Workday for poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Here is explication checklist; here is a helpful handout as you go to make your explication into a presentation Wednesday 15 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Thursday 16 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Friday 17 February: Poetry presentations; homework amnesty bumps all papers to Tuesday! Monday 20 February: Presidents' Day; no school Tuesday 21 February: Poetry paper due; Poetry presentations in class Wednesday 22 February: Open-note test on poetry presentations; we stop at 11:10 for Ash Wednesday Mass at 11:15; Begin Purgatorio, just in time for Lent! Comments are closed.
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