Thursday 4 January: Portfolio assigned
Friday 5 January: Last day to hand in prose poem and other poem; making a sequence Monday 8 January: Conferences in class (prepare by choosing 1–2 poems to discuss) Tuesday 9 January: The poetic mindset; reflections Wednesday 10 January: Workshop in class (Anya, Clare, Fiat, Ana); 10 minutes each, decide the way you want to use the time Thursday 11 January: Workshop in class (Siena, Margot, Sydney) Friday 12 January: Last day of poetry class; celebratory reading and party; journal due; portfolio due Monday 11 December: Professional examples
Tuesday 12 December: Student samples Wednesday 13 December: No class; field trip Thursday 14 December: Writing exercises in class Friday 15 December: "Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man" Monday 18 December: Prose poem workday; Conferences Tuesday 19 December: Workshop Turn in prose poems on Wednesday 20 December OR on Friday 5 January Monday 27 November: Reading Howe: the poetry collection; theme and narrative between poems; use of the personal
Tuesday 28 November: Reading Howe: voice and diction Wednesday 29 November: Reading Howe: line and stanza Thursday 30 November: form and shape Friday 1 December: More reading in Howe, bringing the factors together; journal drop-off before school Monday 4 December: Conferences for After Howe poem Tuesday 5 December: Conferences for After Howe poem Wednesday 6 December: No class or reduced class, seniors on St. Nicholas' Day Thursday 7 December: Workshop, 2 volunteers who have had conferences; journal check Friday 8 December: No class; Feast of the Immaculate Conception festival day; 2 poems due by 10pm Friday 3 November: Poems due; Journals due; Theories of translation; Word for word translation exercise
Monday 6 November: Have chosen passage for translation; Process of translation; Continue Weinberger in class Tuesday 7 November: Mrs. Walsh on field trip; Read Weinberger Wednesday 8 November: Weinberger due; Comparative translations: Rilke 1; Rilke 2 Thursday 9 November: Workday for translations; some conferences; Journals due Friday 10 November: No class; half day Monday 13 November: More comparative translations Tuesday 14 November: Longenbach essay due Wednesday 15 November: Workday; Conferences Thursday 16 November: Seniors in Boston Friday 17 November: Seniors in Boston Monday 20 November: Workshop (2 volunteers) Tuesday 21 November: Poems due; Journals due Friday 20 October: Dinggedicht due (2 poems); Introduction to Ekphrasis: Rilke, Auden, Williams, Gunn, Jennings
Monday 23 October: Prep for field trip; more samples Tuesday 24 October: Craft Essay: Doty interview Wednesday 25 October: Ekphrasis: Two Poems exercise; here is the Longenbach article to help with line Thursday 26 October: Field Trip to NGA Field Trip worksheet Friday 27 October: No classes; Archdiocesan Professional Day Monday 30 October: Field trip debriefing Tuesday 31 October: No class; festival half day Wednesday 1 November: Cumulative terms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, ghazal, Dinggedicht) quiz; more samples and discussion about finding form; Draft due for conferences; Workday; Conferences during class Thursday 2 November: Workshop (2 volunteers for more in-depth workshop) Friday 3 November: Poems due (2); Journals due Monday 9 October: No school; Columbus Day
Tuesday 10 October: Dinggedicht intro Wednesday 11 October: SAT/College Application Workshop Thursday 12 October: More poem examples Friday 13 October: Haiku walk Monday 16 October: Art of the Poetic Line, or, Hearing the Free Verse Line, feat. Louise Glück Tuesday 17 October: In-class description exercises, familiarization and defamiliarization Wednesday 18 October: Workshop Thursday 19 October: Workshop Friday 20 October: Journals due; poems due Monday 25 September: Examples of villanelles, pantoums, ghazals; ghazal essay distributed
Tuesday 26 September: In-class exercise: Sestina Wednesday 27 September: Finish the sestina; what are the lessons of repetition? Thursday 28 September: More in-class examples; mini-presentations on a few example poems; Journal spot check (4 entries); Drafts of Elizabeth Bishop essay handed out Friday 29 September: No class, half day Monday 2 October: Elizabeth Bishop discussed Tuesday 3 October: No class; funeral of Regina Marigold Bronzi Wednesday 4 October: Ghazal essay, Elizabeth Bishop quiz; Workshop; draft of one poem due to Jupiter by 12:10pm Thursday 5 October: Workshop; poems and drafts due electronically by 8:30am Friday; Journal due Monday Friday 6 October: No class; full day festival day for Our Lady of the Rosary Orientation: Policies
Thursday 7 September: Introduction to the class, basic parameters and structures, journal writing, how creative writing is graded, lyric vs. narrative poetry Friday 8 September: No class; welcome back assembly Monday 11 September: Process and creativity, review of the sonnet, sonnet assignment made; look in the textbook, at student samples, at contemporary sonnets for inspiration. This poem assignment includes meter and rhyme, to the best of your ability. When you revise it later, you may revise out meter or rhyme as you prefer. Tuesday 12 September: Sonnet forms reviewed; gestural structure; iambic pentameter Wednesday 13 September: Beginning with the couplet, flipping the couplet; student sonnet samples; samples from Boland and Strand; looking at samples for gestural structure, imagism, meter, and rhyme; your friend, RhymeZone, the rhyming dictionary Thursday 14 September: "A Poem is a Walk" by A. R. Ammons (essay only) Friday 15 September: Journals due before school to be returned by end of day (hand in to my office); mini-presentations prepared and given in class (sonnets from Strand and Boland) Monday 18 September: Syntax, diction, register, rhyme and off-rhyme Tuesday 19 September: Sonnet workshop Wednesday 20 September: Workshop, part deux Thursday 21 September: Sonnet due; villanelle/pantoum/ghazal assignment made (all assignments from this point will be for two poems--one in the target form, one of your choice) Friday 22 Sept: Journals due before school; Reading and terms quiz Monday 25 April: Begin Godot in class
Tuesday 26 April: Discuss plot, setting, theme, device; keep reading Wednesday 27 April: Discuss character; keep reading Thursday 29 April: Keep reading in class; HW: through p. 59; here is handout from today's class Monday 2 May: Finish reading the play Tuesday 3 May: Questions for discussion Wednesday 4 May Zoom with actor/director/teacher Robert Hawkes Thursday 5 May: Godot test; Last real day of class because of APUSH on Friday Friday 6 May: APUSH exam Monday 9 May AP Calc, AP Italian 17–27 March: Read the play, see clips of productions, etc.
28–30 March: Discuss, deepen, and initiate your project 31 March–12 April: Write, plan, build, practice 13 April: Present your scene! |