Monday 29 January: Receive weekly journal prompts; The Image; "Eleven"; "Abandoned Farmhouse"
Tuesday 30 January: The Image Wednesday 31 January: "The End of the Weekend" Thursday 1 February: The Image; "Purse-Seine"; Reflection image and metaphor Friday 2 February: Journal 1 due (3) Monday 5 February: No School: Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 6 February: Receive weekly journal prompts; What's It Like? (Simile, Metaphor, etc.); Similes succeeding and failing; "The Silken Tent"; begin reading "Metaphors" Wednesday 7 February: "My Life Had Stood--A Loaded Gun"; "No Second Troy"; continue reading "Metaphors" (ch. 1 and 2) Thursday 8 February: Ch. 1-4 of "Metaphors We Live By" due (excerpt of this pdf, which is much longer) Friday 9 February: Journal 2 due; personification, allusion; "Tulips"; "Helen" Monday 12 February: Receive weekly journal prompts; Imagism Tuesday 13 February: The Use of Symbol, "The Sick Rose"; "The Dark Night"; facts and inferences exercise Wednesday 14 February: No class; Ash Wednesday Mass Thursday 15 February: "The Merry-Go-Round"; "Nantucket" Friday 16 February: Journal 3 due; "The Fish" Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 20 February: Receive weekly journal prompts; poem paper assigned Wednesday 21 February: Prep for in-class writing Thursday 22 February: In-class writing: Image, Metaphor, Symbol Friday 23 February: Back to the paper Monday 26 February: Final workday before paper due Tuesday 27 February: Paper due; journals (draftwork) due; Begin Ch. 4: Binocular Vision, journal prompt given (1) Wednesday 28 February: Paradox Thursday 1 March: Irony Friday 2 March: Journal due (1); Understatement; Overstatement |