Feb. 25-Mar. 7: Reading Hedda Gabler in class
Here is class handout to facilitate thinking about the play. Here is the video in which Cate Blanchett and others talk about rehearsing the play. (There's a small amount of very vulgar cursing when one of the actors can't get his line right.) Monday 7 March: Finish play; what questions are raised? Tuesday 8 March: More questions, some answers, article portion assigned Wednesday 9 March: Presentations about article portions Thursday 10 March: Organization day, deciding focus Friday 11 March: Antigone and Hedda research Monday 14 March: No Class! No Quorum! What's a teacher to do? Abigail runs amok. Tuesday 15 March: Refocus and research for Harkness Wednesday 16 March: Graded Harkness on Antigone and Hedda; receive The Cherry Orchard Tuesday 22 February: Lecture on the Medieval Theatre; here is my handout; here is a useful illustrative link; here is a Quem Quaeritis? play
Wednesday 23 February: Begin The Second Shepherds' Play; read Middle English sample; continue in Modern English Thursday 24 February: Continue reading; here is a Middle English production Friday 25 February: Medieval Theatre and Second Shepherds' Play test Monday 31 January: Begin History of Theatre; lecture in class on Greek and Roman theatre; here is slide show; locate your copy of Oedipus Rex (the book you used for Antigone in 9th grade); Begin reading Oedipus
Tuesday 1 February: More Oedipus Wednesday 2 February: More Oedipus Thursday 3 February: Quiz on the Origin and Practices of Greek Theatre, Conventions of Tragedy, Theatre Diagram (basic); future quizzes will be on Wednesdays, More Oedipus Friday 4 February: Finish reading Oedipus; discuss themes, purposes, other prominent aspects Monday 7 February: Oedipus projects introduced and decided upon Tuesday 8 February: attendance decimated by Physics trip; workday for project Wednesday 9 February: workday for project Thursday 10 February: workday for project Friday 11 February: workday for project Monday 14 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 15 February: Final Workday for Oedipus project Wednesday 16 February: Oedipus project due; give short presentation of findings, any bibliography and main takeaways Thursday 17 February: Oedipus Test Friday 18 February: No class; half day Monday 21 February: No school; Presidents' Day Welcome to Q3!
Monday 24 January: Submissions for the collection: Choose 2; Upload to Jupiter assignment by 3:30pm today; Poetry collections: the Plath example; the Howe example; HW: Read through our selections Tuesday 25 January: Group work; the arc of the collection Wednesday 26 January: Presentations and arguments; sections? by poet or form or mixed? Each individual writes in class a brief (2 paragraphs?) persuasive essay on the desired order Thursday 27 January: Finalizing the order Friday 28 January: No class; half day Wednesday 8 December: Reading Howe: the poetry collection; theme and narrative between poems; use of the personal
Thursday 9 December: Reading Howe: voice and diction Friday 10 December: Reading Howe: line and stanza; journal check Monday 13 December: form and shape Tuesday 14 December: After Howe poem due for workshop Wednesday 15 December: Mrs. Walsh not in class; activities Thursday 16 December: More workshop; journal check Friday 17 December: No class; half day, but 2 poems due (After Howe and one other) Christmas Break! Monday and Tuesday, Jan 3 and 4: Snow days! Wednesday 5 January: Portfolio introduced Thursday 6 January: Lupe and Sofia Friday 7 January: Another snow day Monday 10 January: Ella S and Cara Tuesday 11 January: Abigail and Ella B Wednesday 12 January: Rose and Rachel Thursday 13 January: Workday + conferences Friday 14 January: Portfolio due; Celebratory Reading Monday 15 November: Workshop for Rachel; Translation introduced
Tuesday 16 November: Deadline for prose poems (because of senior trip to Boston); 19 Ways, pp. 3–10; our own ideas; begin to look for the text you would like to translate Wednesday 17 November: 19 Ways, pp. 11–26 Thursday 18 November: Insights from 19 Ways Friday 19 November: Workday for translation; materials from Mrs. Walsh and the world wide web; poem chosen today Thanksgiving Break Monday 29 November: Extra day off Tuesday 30 November: Extra day off Wednesday 1 December: More comparative translation: Rilke 1; Rilke 2 Thursday 2 December: Workday Friday 3 December: Draft of translation due for workshop; journal check Monday 6 December: More workshopping Tuesday 7 December: 2 poems due (1 translation + 1 other) with drafts; intro to After Howe unit Monday 1 November: Introduction to the prose poem; poem sampler; student examples
Tuesday 2 November: Continued exploration of the form Wednesday 3 November: Russell Edson essay due for discussion Thursday 4 November: Prose poem prompts Friday 5 November: Journals due before school to be returned by the end of the day; cooperative prose poem; prose poem restart marathon Monday 8 November: David Jones (WWI poet) and the prose poem Tuesday 9 November: Workshop; draft due for everyone; featured poems: Abigail and Grazia Wednesday 10 November: Continued meetings and workshops of drafts Thursday 11 November: Seniors in Boston; 2 poems due no later than class time today (may be turned in early); No class Friday 12 November: No class; journals due on Monday before school to be returned by the end of the school day Thursday 14 October: Dinggedicht due (2 poems); Introduction to Ekphrasis: Rilke, Auden, Williams, Gunn, Jennings
Friday 15 October: Prep for field trip; Journals due before school to be returned by the end of the school day; more samples; prep for field trip Monday 18 October: Field Trip to NGA Field Trip worksheet Tuesday 19 October: Cumulative terms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, ghazal, Dinggedicht) quiz; more samples and discussion about finding form Wednesday 20 October: Craft Essay Wednesday: Doty interview Thursday 21 October: Ekphrasis: Two Poems exercise; here is the Longenbach article to help with line Friday 22 October: Journals due before school to be returned by the end of the day; Poem progress Monday 25 October: Poem progress Tuesday 26 October: Workshop: Rose, Sofia Wednesday 27 October: Meetings in class Thursday 28 October: No class because of the All Hallows' Eve Festival; journals due before school (4 entries) to hand back by lunchtime Friday 29 October: No school; Poems due Friday by 10pm (2 poems) Thursday 30 September: Villanelle/Pantoum/Ghazal due along with one other poem; Dinggedicht intro and assignment made; sample poems
Friday 1 October: Journals due before school to be returned by end of school day; freewriting exercise Monday 4 October: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; Embodiment; Point of View (The Wild Iris) Tuesday 5 October: Writing in Free Verse (sense of line and stanza), activities in class Wednesday 6 October: Musicality and Free Verse (sounds and sound tropes) Thursday 7 October: No class; Our Lady of the Rosary Festival Friday 8 October: Robert Bly, "What an Image Can Do" due for discussion; Journals due before school to be returned by end of the school day Monday 11 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 12 October: Dinggedicht workshop Wednesday 13 October: No class; SAT or PSAT Thursday 14 October: Two poems due, Dinggedicht and one other; Ekphrasis assignment made Friday 15 October: Cumulative terms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, ghazal, Dinggedicht) quiz; Journals due before school to be returned by the end of the school day Friday 17 September: Journals due before school; have read Ali essay about ghazals; sestina exercise in class to think about repetition in fresh ways
Monday 20 September: The magic of repetition; have read essay for "One Art" process lesson Tuesday 21 September: Villanelle examples; Pantoum materials in book Wednesday 22 September: Ghazal examples Thursday 23 September: Group poems in target forms (choose the form you are writing in) Friday 24 September: Journals due before school to be returned at 12:05; No class: half day Monday 27 September: Drafts in progress; work and meetings Tuesday 28 September: Workshop for Villanelle/Pantoum/Ghazal Wednesday 29 September: Revision and meetings; Villanelle/Pantoum/Ghazal term and reading quiz Thursday 30 September: Villanelle/Pantoum/Ghazal due along with one other poem; Dinggedicht intro and assignment made Friday 1 October: Journals due before school to be returned by end of school day; sample poems |