Monday, September 29: Vocabulary test. Composition (work) time on the song assignment. HOMEWORK: None assigned
Tuesday, September 30: Poems or lyrics? Composition time on song. HOMEWORK: None assigned
Wednesday, October 1: Diction exercises. Composition time on song. HOMEWORK: None assigned
Thursday, October 2: Finish your song and rehearse your reading. HOMEWORK: None assigned
Friday, October 3: In-class poetry reading: songs! Complete rubric and writer's reflection and turn in. HOMEWORK: Finish rubric and writer's reflection if not finished in class (turn in on Monday)
Monday, September 22: More Unit 6 : hymn, psalm, spiritual; kinds of lyric. HOMEWORK: You should have at least 12 lines of your sonnet memorized by bedtime.
Tuesday, September 23: Finish Unit 6 today, if not finished yesterday. Connotations exercise. HOMEWORK: You should have 100% of your sonnet memorized by bedtime.
Wednesday, September 24: Voice exercises and rehearsal time. Vocabulary test coming up on Monday, September 29. Click here for study guide. HOMEWORK: Rehearse your sonnet for tomorrow's recitations! Click here for rubric.
Thursday, September 25: Recitations! "Tree at My Window" group work. HOMEWORK: Review for Monday's vocabulary test.
Friday, September 26: Overview of the song assignment. "Scarborough Fair" reading and discussion. HOMEWORK: Review for Monday's vocabulary test.
Monday, September 15: Work time on ode. Review parameters for the next recitation. Absent students need to attend Lyceum to discuss; click here for expectations & rubric. HOMEWORK: Research your sonnet from these choices. You must commit to your sonnet on Wednesday.
Tuesday, September 16: Small group discussion of "The Sea Violet" and "Preludes." Work time on ode. HOMEWORK: Research your sonnet choices. You must commit to your sonnet tomorrow.
HALF DAY Wednesday, September 17: Last work day on ode. Commit to sonnet memorization for recitation next Thursday, September 25. HOMEWORK: Begin memorizing your sonnet. Aim for four lines by bedtime tonight.
Thursday, September 18: In-class reading of odes! Students also complete the rubric and writer's reflection and turn in. HOMEWORK: Continue to memorize your sonnet. Aim for 8 lines by bedtime tonight.
Friday, September 19: Begin reading together Unit 6 in the reader: psalms, hymns, spirituals. HOMEWORK: Continue to memorize your sonnet. Aim for 12 lines (or all 14!) by bedtime Sunday night.
Monday, September 8: Review of the riddle poems. Scansion review. HOMEWORK: Read the odes the reader pp41-46 and annotate rhyme where it exists; number all of the lines in the poems.
Wednesday, September 9: Metaphor exercises. Figurative language in "Ode to My Socks" and "Lincoln." HOMEWORK: Review the basics of scansion and know the foot names and prefixes for tomorrow's test!
Tuesday, September 10: Scansion test. "The Dance" close reading. HOMEWORK: Read and annotate "Words" photocopy section of reader pp42-23
Thursday, September 11: Overview of the ode assignment and work time on the ode. HOMEWORK: Read "The Sea Violet" and answer questions -- this is in the "Words" section p 45: "The Sea Violet"
Friday, September 12: Ekphrastic poetry. Work time on ode. HOMEWORK: Read "Preludes" and answer questions -- this is in the "Words" section p 46-47: "The Sea Violet"
No school Monday, September 1.
Tuesday, September 2: Overview of our first recitation and expectations. HOMEWORK: Memorize your poem for Friday's recitation!
Wednesday, September 3: Figurative language Unit 4 of reader. Examples of figurative language in "Ode to Salt" in Unit 4. HOMEWORK: Continue to memorize and rehearse your poem for Friday's recitation!
Thursday, September 4: Scansion practice. Begin solving Emily Dickinson's riddle poems in Unit 4. HOMEWORK: Rehearse your poem for tomorrow's recitation!
Friday, September 5: Recitations! Finish Dickinson's riddle poems. HOMEWORK: Finish solving the riddle poems if not finished in class.
Monday, August 25: Continued studies of scansion: "Mending Wall" lines 1-4 in reader pp 37-38, and "Inpatient" in reader p 40. HOMEWORK: Scan stanza 1 only in "Order" p 39 in reader. Review foot names and prefixes for quiz on Wednesday!
Tuesday, August 26: More scansion and rhyme. Beginning of guided "Portrait" poem. HOMEWORK: Scan the excerpt from "The Raven" p 39 in reader. Review foot names and prefixes for quiz tomorrow!
Wednesday, August 27: Quiz on foot names and prefixes. Work time on the Portrait poem. HOMEWORK: None
Thursday, August 28: Composition aids and final work day on the Portrait. HOMEWORK: None
Friday, August 29:In-class poetry reading of our Portrait poems! Complete rubric and writer's reflection and turn in the portrait. HOMEWORK: None--enjoy R&R!
Monday, August 18: Using sensory data to write Sonoran Desert Haiku. HOMEWORK: None
Tuesday, August 19: Assess haiku and turn in. Reading and discussion of pp 10-11 in the course reader. HOMEWORK: Begin reviewing definitions for the following terms (quiz on Friday, 8/22): haiku, kireji, kigo, couplet, quatrain, enjambment, end-stop, caesura.
Wednesday, August 20: Rhyme scheme exercises. HOMEWORK: Read and annotate Wordsworth's "It is a beautiful evening, calm and free" and annotate rhyme scheme, caesura, end-stop, and enjambment.
Thursday, August 21: Review last night's homework. Basic rules of scansion. HOMEWORK: Review definitions for the following terms (quiz tomorrow, 8/22): haiku, kireji, kigo, couplet, quatrain, enjambment, end-stop, caesura.
Friday, August 22: Quiz. Continued studies of scansion, including foot names and prefixes. HOMEWORK: Review foot names and prefixes for quiz on Wednesday, 8/27.
Monday, August 11: Freshman Retreat.
Tuesday, August 12: Freshman Retreat.
Wednesday, August 13: Freshman Retreat. HOMEWORK: As was assigned last Friday, complete 100% of the Go Outside data sheet; this will be collected tomorrow at the beginning of class.
Thursday, August 14: Responding to poems using literary terms (packet). HOMEWORK: None
Friday, August 15: Images in close reading (packet). HOMEWORK: None
Thursday, July 31: Welcome and course overview. HOMEWORK: Signed syllabus contract due tomorrow.
Friday, August 1: How to read a poem using end-stop, enjambment, and caesura. Letter to self: "What Is Poetry?" HOMEWORK: Bring your dedicated composition book and complete ONLY THE DEFINITIONS YOU ALREADY KNOW on the Unit 1 Vocabulary handout.
Week 2
Monday, August 4: Review Unit 1 definitions. The major sub-genres of poetry: lyric, narrative, dramatic. HOMEWORK: Continue to review Unit 1 definitions for Wednesday's quiz
Tuesday, August 5: Begin reading together and discussing Unit 1 of the course reader. HOMEWORK: Continue to review Unit 1 definitions for tomorrow's quiz
Wednesday, August 6: Quiz on Unit 1 definitions. Begin Unit 2 together; pay attention to the terms kigo and kireji. HOMEWORK: Go outside and write one haiku.
Thursday, August 7: Review yesterday's homework. Exercises in syllabics. HOMEWORK: Begin your "Go Outside!" sensory data collection worksheet; you should have 50% completed for tomorrow's class.
Friday, August 8: Sensory description exercises. Writing haiku from immediate experience. HOMEWORK: Finish your "Go Outside!" sensory data collection worksheet; you should have 100% completed for the next class (Thursday, August 14). Enjoy the retreat!