Welcome to Q3!
Reassertion of late policies Word of the Day; here is chart template Monday 24 January: Look at the midterm; 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 25 January: Accessible language (Howe, Kunitz); Dense language (Hopkins, Owen); discuss brainstorming; write a couplet; HW: build more poem (keep it imagistic) Wednesday 26 January: Class collaborative sonnet (solving problems of rhyme and meter); Effects of line (Glück); HW: build more poem Thursday 27 January: Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; Brainstorming and workday; HW: build more sonnet Friday 28 January: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; HW: work on sonnet 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 6am Tuesday Tuesday 31 January: Explication day 1: Speaker and Occasion Wednesday 1 February: Explication day 2: Theme Thursday 2 February: Explication day 3: Form Friday 3 February: WOD quiz #1 (weekdays beginning 24 January) Final sonnet due; celebratory reading Monday 6 February: Explication day 4: Image Tuesday 7 February: Explication day 5: Sound; sound tropes Wednesday 8 February: 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 14 February: Headmaster's Holiday; no classes Tuesday 15 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 16 February: Gala practice; HW: review notes; finalize paper Thursday 17 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Friday 18 February: WOD quiz #2 (weekdays beginning 24 January but special emphasis on 6-18 February); Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Monday 21 February: Presidents' Day; no school Tuesday 22 February: Poetry presentations; finalize paper Wednesday 23 February: Final poetry paper due; Test on poetry presentations (concepts applied to selected poems) Comments are closed.
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