Due Monday and THE BEAST!

You will have a third poetry outline due this Monday, 10/30. If we all demonstrate growth on our "how" step, this will be our last outline (for a while, at least).

The objective part of your poetry test is set for November 6 (B) and November 7 (A). The essay component may or may not happen on that day depending on when I get your first in-class essays graded and back to you. It is likely that your 2nd in class essay will end up being on the 13th, for that reason. Please begin your study of ALL of the poetry terms we have learned using your book, slide shows, your notes, and your placemat as resources.

Due Tuesday, 10/23 or Wednesday 10/24 and other stuff

Optional but a really good idea

On Monday, you will have your first assessed in class essay. Please review your terms "placemat", your notes, and your first essay and feedback to get in the zone for writing this essay. Remember, to really improve, you need to have specific goals that you are trying to work on each time you write. If you don't, then you'll just end up doing the same thing over and over and over...If you'd like to practice writing another 40 minute essay, I've posted a poem and prompt below. I have also (reluctantly) posted sample student essays, but please realize that the highest score may be difficult to understand out of context.

Poem and prompt
Sample essays


Required

Your actually assignment for Tuesday/Wednesday is to complete the poetry translation activity. If you'd like to print it out and write on this to turn in, you may. Otherwise, you can complete all of the exercises on your own piece of paper.

Translation activity

Due 10/19

Please read the "Approaching a Poem" section from 506-510 in your book. After your reading, please find a poem that you'd like to practice this thought process on. Read your poem and in your head, perform the same device by device analysis as your book. Then, find a partner. Engage them in a conversation where you explain everything there is to know about your poem. Then, if your partner is in our class, return the favor and listen to them talk about their poem. This conversation should be conducted using out loud words in person, on the phone, via Skype. Your partner does not have to be in our class. You may converse with a parent, sibling, friends, and if you have no other options, your pet or yourself in the mirror. Just do your analysis out loud.



Paper feedback slide show.

Due 10/16

Below you will find the links to the poetry time period slide show and the poetry practice assignment. Please type your responses in a new document that you will upload to Turnitin. For your 3 analytical units, please put extra attention into your "how" stage. This is an area that we will be targeting for growth.

Poetry time period slides
Practice Poems an assignment info

Due Tuesday, 9/10

Please log in to Turnitin and see your feedback on your first poem outline. If I did not leave you feedback, it means that I don't have any concerns and you should keep doing what you're doing.

In general, our interpretations are AWESOME! Please keep this up! Our charts on occasion are a bit skimpy, so you should make an effort to look at more devices, or find more quotations to support the devices you're already addressing. I may have scared you away from doing a diction analysis. We don't want to just look at diction, but every poem should look at diction, so make sure that your chart has a diction section. Also, make sure you are doing one of the three types of diction analysis discussed in your notes; you should not have full sentences as your diction quotations.

Your homework is to choose another poem from the red book and make another chart, interp, and organization statement. So pretty much the same assignment, with my feedback in mind, but this time for a different poem of your choosing.

This will be due on Tuesday, 9/10, even for B-day people.