Wednesday 24 January: Lyric vs narrative (samples for illustration: "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz, "The Boy" by Marie Howe, other selections from students) HW: Look at the Kunitz and Howe and make some notes about their interactions with lyric and narrative elements.
Thursday 25 January: Introduce Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets (see Perrine), Twentieth- (and Twenty-first-) Century sonnets Friday 26 January: More sonnet samples; what a sonnet can do (themes); student samples; sonnet assignment made (here is checklist) Monday 29 January: Iambic pentameter; writing lines Tuesday 30 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 31 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) Thursday 1 February: Accessible language (Howe, Kunitz); Dense language (Hopkins, Owen); discuss brainstorming; write a couplet; ; Effects of line (Glück); HW: build more poem (keep it imagistic) Friday 2 February: Class collaborative sonnet (solving problems of rhyme and meter); Work time for sonnet; HW: build more poem Monday 5 February: Image, symbol, metaphor, allusion; Brainstorming and workday; HW: build more sonnet Tuesday 6 February: 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 10pm Wednesday 7 February: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox; Poem for Harkness; explication assigned Thursday 8 February: Explication day 1: Speaker and Occasion Friday 9 February: Final sonnet due; celebratory reading; Explication day 2: Theme Monday 12 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 13 February: No class; Gala practice Wednesday 14 February: Explication day 3: Form Thursday 15 February: Explication day 4: Image Friday 16 February: Explication day 5: Sound; Trope Review; here's a vowel chart; putting it all together Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents Day Tuesday 20 February: Notes pages and draft of paper due in class; Poetry unit review; poetry review #2 Wednesday 21 February: Poetry unit test Thursday 22 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 Friday 23 February: Poetry presentations (Nati); HW: review notes; finalize paper Monday 26 February: Poetry presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Tuesday 27 February: Poetry presentations (Susanna, Sofia); HW: review notes; finalize paper Wednesday 28 February: Open-note quiz on presentations; HW: review notes; finalize paper Thursday 29 February: Poetry paper due; Begin Purgatorio Comments are closed.
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