OCT 5, 2026
Monday:
Intro to Free Verse
Walt Whitman, "O Captain, My Captain"
Tuesday:
Walt Whitman, "I hear America singing"
Whitman poems parallels and differences
Wednesday:
Blackout Poetry
Thursday
Langston Hughes, "I too sing America", "Theme for English B"
Friday
In class essay: Hughes v/s Whitman
Quiz review on Free Verse for next week
OCT 5, 2026
Monday:
Song work time
Tuesday:
Song work time
Wednesday:
Song Recitations
SEP 28, 2026
Monday:
Finish Odes: Rubric and Recitations.
Figurative Language Overview
HW: Memorize sonnet for recitation
Tuesday:
Finish Odes: Rubric and Recitations.
Introduction to Songs
HW: Memorize sonnet for recitation
Wednesday:
Sonnet Recitations!
Thursday:
Hymns, Spirituals, and Psalms
Thursday:
Hymns, Spirituals, and Psalms contd.
"Scarborough Fair"
SEP 21, 2026
Monday:
Ode Guidelines
Scansion Quiz
Tuesday:
Introduction to Sonnets (Recitation next Wednesday)
Review Lux and Nelson odes
Ode work time
Wednesday:
Ode Work time
Connotation/Denotation
HW: Start memorizing sonnet for recitation
Thursday:
Finalize Odes
HW: Start memorizing sonnet for recitation
Friday:
Odes: Rubrics and Recitations!
SEP 14, 2026
Monday:
Figurative language contd. (Come up with examples as a class)
Scansion practice: Love is not all, A Patch of Old Snow
“Ode to salt” contd.
HW: Memorize poem for Recitation (WEDNESDAY)
Tuesday:
Final discussion on “Ode to Salt”
Start Riddle Poems
Continue Scansion Review
HW: Memorize poem for Recitation (WEDNESDAY)
Wednesday:
Riddle Poems
Recitations!
HW: Finish Riddle Poems
Thursday:
Continue Scansion Review (“Lincoln”)
Read and Discuss “Lincoln”
Start reading “Words”
HW: Study for Scansion Quiz (MONDAY, 9/21)
Friday:
Finish “Words.”
Final Scansion practice (quiz on Monday)
Read and discuss odes by Lux and Nelson
HW: Study for Scansion Quiz (MONDAY, 9/21)
SEP 8, 2026
Monday:
Labor Day - NO SCHOOL
Tuesday:
Continue working on "Portrait."
Wednesday:
Scansion Tables review
Work on Rubric and Writer's Reflection for "Portrait."
Continue discussion on Recitation.
HW: Start memorizing poem for Recitaion (next Monday)
Thursday:
"Portrait" Recitations
Review Scansion
Videos on Recitation.
HW: Start memorizing poem for Recitaion (next Monday)
Friday:
Revise Scansion
Start exercises on figurative language
"Ode to Salt"
HW: Start memorizing poem for Recitaion (next Monday)
AUG 24, 2026
QUIZ ON FRIDAY!
Monday:
Basics of Scansion - "Humpty Dumpty" contd.
"Tyger Tyger" - Poetic devices review, followed by scansion
HW: Rhyme worksheet due Tue + Read and annotate Unit 3 in Course Reader (due Fri)
Tuesday:
Continue Basics of Scansion - Foot names and Shakespeare!
HW: Read and annotate Unit 3 in Course Reader (due Fri)
Wednesday:
Continue Basics of Scansion - Meter names and Shakespeare!
HW: Read and annotate Unit 3 in Course Reader (due Fri)
Thursday:
Scansion - Exercises on Foot names and Meters
Review for Friday's quiz (basics of Poetry, kigo, kireji, and foot names + prefixes - NO SCANSION)
HW: Read and annotate Unit 3 in Course Reader (due Fri) + Study for Quiz
Friday:
Quiz time!
Begin Scansion worksheet as a class
HW: Read and annotate the section on "the Raven" by Poe: identify instances of end stop, enjambment, and scan the first 4 lines.
AUG 17, 2026
Monday:
Freshman Retreat!
Tuesday:
Freshman Retreat!
Wednesday:
Freshman Retreat!
Thursday:
Finish "Sonoran desert haikus" drafts.
Look at "Autumn" by Longfellow
Friday:
Finalize Sonoran desert haikus onto rubrics
Present haikus!
Begin unit on Scansion.
AUG 10, 2026
Monday:
Lesson
Unit 1 slide show
poetry definitions + genres
Tuesday:
Lesson
Winter and the Eagle
Two false approaches
Homework:
Unit 1 annotations
Wednesday:
Start unit on Haiku
Sonoran desert poems - Observation notes
Homework:
Unit 1 annotations
Thursday:
Haikus contd.
Sonoran desert poems contd.
Unit 1 annotations check
Friday:
Finalize Sonoran desert haikus
Dulce et Decorum est
Homework
Study for Unit 1 quiz on Monday