Monday, November 3:More Emily Dickinson. Overview of next recitation and choice of poems. HOMEWORK: Understand what your poem for recitation is about. Be prepared to discuss tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 4: Discussion of poems for recitation. Establish recitation schedule. HOMEWORK: Aim for 20% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Wednesday, November 5: Found poem exercise. Begin "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." HOMEWORK: Aim for 40% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Thursday, November 6: Narrative poetry exploration; "Rime" continued. HOMEWORK: Aim for 60% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Friday, November 7: Narrative poetry exploration; wrap up "Rime." HOMEWORK: Aim for 80% of your poem to be memorized by bedtime.
Monday, October 27 HALF DAY: Finish free verse exercise. HOMEWORK: None
Tuesday, October 28: No school (student-led conferences)
Wednesday, October 29: Hymn meter in Emily Dickinson's poetry (pp154-158 in the Dickinson section of the reader). HOMEWORK: Be prepared to answer a one-question quiz tomorrow: what is the definition of hymn meter?
Thursday, October 30: One-question quiz. More poetry of Emily Dickinson (pp. 159-160 in the Dickinson section of the reader). HOMEWORK: None
Friday, October 31: Finish reading and discussing remaining poems in the Dickinson section of the reader. HOMEWORK: Dickinson's "Tell All the Truth" reading and questions for Monday.
Monday, October 20: Elegy. Review of terms for this week's quiz. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Tuesday, October 21: Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Wednesday, October 22: Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Thursday, October 23: Period 2: Quiz. Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: Review slides/notes for the quiz.
Friday, October 24: Period 4: Quiz. Free verse poems. Idiom transformation exercise. HOMEWORK: None