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 Comments are closed.
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