Orientation: Policy sheet Thursday 2 September: Introduction to the class, basic parameters and structures, journal writing, how creative writing is graded, lyric vs. narrative poetry Friday 3 September: Interview with Kaveh Akbar from The Paris Review, process and creativity, review of the sonnet, sonnet assignment made; look in the textbook, at student samples, at contemporary sonnets for inspiration. Your own sonnet for this assignment must make meter and rhyme. When you revise it later, you may revise out meter or rhyme as you prefer. Monday 6 September: No class, Labor Day Tuesday 7 September: Sonnet forms reviewed; gestural structure; iambic pentameter Wednesday 8 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 9 September: "A Poem is a Walk" by A. R. Ammons (essay only) Friday 10 September: Journals due before school to be returned by end of day (hand in to my office); poem workday, individual check-ins Monday 13 September: Syntax, diction, register, rhyme and off-rhyme Tuesday 14 September: Sonnet workshop Wednesday 15 September: Terms and reading quiz Thursday 16 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) Monday 7 May: In-class writing: Sound and sound devices
Tuesday 8 May: Intro to rhythm and meter Wednesday 9 May: Rhythm and meter (HW: 228, #B) Thursday 10 May: Rhythm and meter: "The Second Coming"; Line length Friday 11 May: Line length; Journals due (3 assignments, this week's homework) Monday 14 May: Chapter 9 assignment made Tuesday 15 May: Workday for Chapter 9 assignment Wednesday 16 May: Workday for Chapter 9 assignment Thursday 17 May: Chapter 9 assignment due (represents 3 hrs. of solid work); journal due with all process for the assignment; Intro to Chapter 10: "Different Drummers: Rhythms Old and New" Friday 18 May: In-class activity on meter and variations (Journal for this week is draft work for "Break, Break..." paper Monday 21 May: Free verse and its effects; Final project assigned Tuesday 22 May: Practice poems for short answer Wednesday 23 May: Poetry Class's Greatest Hits; Workday for creative component of final project Thursday 24 May: More cold poetry analysis Friday 25 May: "Green Crab" exercise Monday 28 May: No class; Memorial Day Tuesday 29 May: Cold poem analysis practice Wednesday 30 May: Part 1 of Final administered in class Thursday 31 May: Workday for final project Friday 1 June: Workday for final project Monday 4 June: Projects due; celebratory reading Tuesday 10 April: College Fair, no class
Wednesday 11 April: Introduction to "Gold in the Ore," Chapter 7, Sound Thursday 12 April: Classwork solidifying ideas about consonant and vowel sounds; assignment made Friday 13 April: No class, Jane Austen Day Monday 16 April: Sample poem analyzed in class Tuesday 17 April: Workday for assignment Wednesday 18 April: Workday for assignment Thursday 19 April: School canceled for Jimmy Davern funeral Friday 20 April: No classes; All-day Gala rehearsal Monday 23 April: No school; Gala recovery Tuesday 24 April: Draft due of assignment; turn in as hard copy or through Jupiter assignment Wednesday 25 April: Workshop for drafts Thursday 26 April: Chapter 8 reading due; exercises in class Friday 27 April: Journal homework, p. 198-99 due (do e, f, or g) (Journal #1); keep working on project Monday 30 April: Sound and sound devices, as applied to poems (Journal #2) Tuesday 1 May: Final version of assignment due; turn in as hard copy or through Jupiter assignment; creative responses must have finished Poet's Statement included; all assignments should include submission of drafts Wednesday 2 May: Sound and sound devices, as applied less overtly to poems (Journal #3) Thursday 3 May: Journal due (three entries); no class, Grandparents' Day Friday 4 May: Medieval Day; no class (Prep for Monday's in-class writing) Monday 5 March: Emotion and sentimentality (journal prompts for the week)
Tuesday 6 March: Bring a poem to class and argue for emotion or sentimentality Wednesday 7 March: More poems to evaluate with distillation of tenets on this subject Thursday 8 March: In-class writing: Emotion and sentimentality Friday 9 March: Journals due (3): Three poems and evaluation according to our standards Monday 12 March: Return to ekphrasis Tuesday 13 March: Considerations of form and ekphrasis Wednesday 14 March: The role of description and close observation; the volta Thursday 15 March: Field Trip to National Gallery for Ekphrastic poetry Friday 16 March: Journals due (3 entries, discussions of ekphrastic examples); discuss drafting from field trip Monday 19 March: Diction: Register, precision, and density; "The Knight, Death, and the Devil": Ekphrasis and Diction Tuesday 20 March: Reading due (pp. 121-131) Wednesday 21 March: Snow Day! Thursday 22 March: Draft of poem due; conferences and workday Friday 23 March: Journals due (3 drafts toward ekphrastic poem) Monday 26 March: No class; Gala practice! Tuesday 27 March: Reading due (pp. 131-143) Wednesday 28 March: Final poem due Easter Break! Look ahead to April: Opportunity to see The Winter's Tale on Tuesday, April 10 at the Folger (7:30 p.m.) Open mic at the Writer's Center in Bethesda on Friday, April 13 (extra lucky) (7-9 p.m.) (extra credit); 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 Wednesday, January 3: Portfolio overview; 'What we value' handout
Thursday, January 4: Example poems that show particular values Friday, January 5: Workday Monday, January 8: Workshop: Maggie Tuesday, January 9: Workshop: Noelia and Symone Wednesday, January 10: Portfolio workday Thursday, January 11: Workshop: Bridget and Jenny Friday, January 12: Mia and Linda Monday, January 15: No classes; MLK Day Tuesday, January 16: Workshop: Marisa and Mar Pep Wednesday, January 17: Workday and conferences; prep for reading Thursday, January 18: Portfolio due, counts as midterm; celebratory reading Friday, January 19: No classes: March for Life Monday, January 22–Friday, January 23: Midterms Monday 4 December: Draft of poem 2 due; revision exercises: syntax, rhythm
Tuesday 5 December: Revision exercises: image Wednesday 6 December: Digression and hyperfocus Thursday 7 December: More revision Friday 8 December: 2 poems due; no class; Immaculate Conception All-School Mass Monday 11 December: Introduction of the long lyric Tuesday 12 December: In-class examples Wednesday 13 December: Drafting exercises for the long lyric Thursday 14 December: Drafting exercises and examples of the long lyric Friday 15 December: Draft of two sections of the long lyric; Journals due (5) Monday 18 December: Workday Tuesday 19 December: Workday Wednesday 20 December: Journals due (3); two sections of the long lyric due, others mapped out Thursday 21 December: Celebratory reading Christmas Break Wednesday 1 November: No class; All Saints' Day Mass
Thursday 2 November: Day of Reckoning; workday Friday 3 November: Journals due (9 entries); receive assignment for lyric poem; receive presentation assignment Monday 6 November: Final due date: translation and second poem, along with draftwork; the lyric moment, lyric examples Tuesday 7 November: Workday Wednesday 8 November: The lyric sequence (Glück, Hall, Whitman) Thursday 9 November: The long lyric (Kenyon, Stevens) Friday 10 November: Journal due (5 entries) Monday 13 November: draft due, free verse lyric plus one other poem; workshop Tuesday 14 November: presentations in class; *handouts and/or PowerPoints due before class*; receive Glück essay Wednesday 15 November: Guest speaker: poet Sally Rosen Kindred Thursday 16 November: presentations in class Friday 17 November: Journal due (5 entries); any remaining presentations; Glück essay due Monday 20 November: revision work in class, reading of drafts Tuesday 21 November: Final due date for free verse lyric and one other poem along with draftwork (If you will be absent, please hand in your work before this date.) Monday 27 November: Prose poem in-class exercises: the journal entry Tuesday 28 November: Chance-operations poetry; erasure poetry (exercises to help make diction denser) Wednesday 29 November: Sestina exercise Thursday 30 November: Strategies for revising the prose poem; playing with tone, register, diction, image, syntax Friday 1 December: Journals due (7 entries); 1 draft due for workshop (workshop poems chosen in class) •Monday 2 October: Villanelle/Pantoum/Ghazal draft due for meeting or workshop (villanelle example: Hollander's "By the Sound"; individual work) •Tuesday 3 October: Villanelle/Pantoum/Ghazal form and terms quiz; individual draft work and conferences (This is the day of the University of Dallas visit--if you miss class you should make up the quiz during break, lunch, or after school.) •Wednesday 4 October: Villanelle/pantoum/ghazal due (2 poems due); Dinggedicht; ekphrasis assignment made; examples in class: Rilke, Doty, Auden, Williams, Gunn •Thursday 5 October: Journal assignment: Close description of an object (with inferences); More examples; in-class exercise •Friday 6 October: Ekphrasis in class (Rodin); Journals due (5 entries) Monday 9 October: No school; Columbus Day Tuesday 10 October: "A Poem is a Walk" by A.R. Ammons Wednesday 11 October: No class: PSAT Thursday 12 October: No class: Screening of Screenagers film Friday 13 October: Drafts due for Dinggedicht/Ekphrasis (2 poems); workshop in class: Marisa and Bridget; Journals due (4 entries) Monday 16 October: Workday in class; conferences Tuesday 17 October: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" in class Wednesday 18 October: Final drafts of Dinggedicht/Ekphrasis due (2 poems); translation assignment made Thursday 19 October: 19 Ways, pp. 3–10; our own ideas; insights from native speakers Friday 20 October: 19 Ways, pp. 11–26; Journals due (5 entries) Monday 23 October: Bring in your chosen text and a short paragraph explaining your choice Tuesday 24 October: 19 Ways Wednesday 25 October: Workday for translation Thursday 26 October: Drafts due for workshop (just the translation); workshop in class: Mia and Noelia; Journals due (4 entries) Friday 27 October: No class; Archdiocesan Professional Day Monday 30 October: Translation workday; draft of second poem due Tuesday 31 October: Other examples of multiple translations: Rilke
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