Resources

poetryoutloud.org/

http://poetryfoundation.org/

Date

Class                                                           

HW                                     

Tu 3 Mar

D

Poetry-

The patterning of sounds and images to reveal and re-create truth

Linebreaks 

"Power" by Corrine Hales (Prose)

"Power" by Corrine Hales (Poetry) 

Which is more powerful and why?

Paragraph, how do the line breaks contribute to the imagery and emotional impact of the poem? (20 minutes)

How to Recite Poetry

poetry out loud model

Dos and Don'ts of Reading Poetry and

Awful Poems Packet:

_Dos and Donts Reading and Writing Poetry.pdf 

Find a poem to recite

• http://poetryoutloud.org/poems/
• or from Touched with Fire
• 14 line minimum, minimum of 100 words 
• Find by W 11 Mar--bring extra copy to class

Read Packet for tomorrow

(not Awful poems chapter)

Come with questions. Look up unfamiliar words

W 4 Mar

S 

Collect Macbeth draft 

Dos and Don'ts

Not rhyme, Not meter, Use the packet

"Ozymandias" P. B. Shelley (21)

W 11 Mar

D

Mac Draft back to Ss

Approve Recitation poems

Motif and Theme

"The Pond" Michael Schmidt (45)

• How and why does Schmidt use reflection as a motif? 

Mac paper 

Memorize

F 13 Mar

D

Memorization and Recitation skills

What is the tone and how is it conveyed through Sexton's imagery and/or motifs?

(stanza-by-stanza grid: patterns, tone, evidence of tone based on patterns)

"Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward" Anne Sexton

Recitation 

Mac paper

Memorize

T 17 Mar

D

Mac Final Draft due

"The Toys" Coventry Patmore (47)

• Ambiguous syntax

W 18 Mar

S

"The Toys"

Llook at the prayer

Synthesize parts to articulate theme 

Write a conclusion

W 25 Mar

D

F 27 Mar

D

Return and comment on Macbeth papers

Finish recitations

Follow up on memorization experience

"The Early Purges"--read through and initial comments on ordering of ideas, imagery, patterns 

T 31 Mar

D

"The Soldier" Rupert Brook (75)

"Anthem for Doomed Youth" Wilfred Owen (75) 

OR

"The Lesson" Edward Lucie-Smith (123)

• Read "Riding the 'A," (sheet also includes "Telephone Poles,""Girl in the Doorway," and "The Kingfisher")
• Annotate
• 140-160-word polished paragraph, 1.5-spacing: How does the sound of the language or the pattern of imagery contribute to the poem's purpose? 

W 1 Apr

S

W 8 Apr

D

Follow-up on "Riding the 'A'"

Intro In the Time of the Butterflies

"Afterwards" Thomas Hardy (29)

"The Voice" Thomas Hardy (54)

(enrichment: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" (56)

How is the theme of loss developed in either poem?)

In the time of the Butterflies: Book I and Ch. 5

• One journal entry per chapter (300 words) (combine Chapter 1 and 5 into one entry)
• Point of View, Characterization: who the narrator is, what that point of view reveals about her and what that point of view reveals about her sisters
• Narrative structure: who is telling what part of the story, frame, chronology, critical scenes (touchstones/turning points)
• Themes and motifs, compelling quotations, other patterns, how a book begins, how characters are introduced and developed.
• ...some: gender, love and revolution, from ordinary person to hero, the burden of survival...

F 10 Apr

D

T 21 Apr

D 

Collect Butterflies journals

10 minutes

"Thistles" Ted Hughes (11)

15 minutes to read

What is personification's role?

What kind of diction is it, and what is its effect?

Is this a lesson, metaphor, or observation?

30 minutes to write

How does Ted Hughes turn the natural and banal process of blossoming into an epic struggle? (1P at end of class)

Butterflies 84-168. Choose a character and theme to focus your journal entry. 300 words

How to Write on a Novel

Unlike a poem, you can’t write comprehensively on a novel. Even “resources” like Sparknotes are only glissades. Because novels by nature are long, you have to find a way to narrow your reading and study of it. 

With In the Time of the Butterflies, this is rather easy to do. You can pick a theme and study its development among the characters, as the story develops chronology. Better yet—at least “better” in terms of narrowing your task—choose a narrator and study how her chapters explore and develop a given theme.

Think about what this affords you. Now you only pay close attention to particular chapters, still being sure to perk up when a that character is mentioned along with your chosen theme in another character’s chapter. You may still wish to collect a few quotations and details from another character to draw a contrast. However, you can see how 324-page novel becomes much, much shorter. 

This also makes longer reading assignments shorter, as you can read certain chapters more quickly, annotating little if anything in those chapters that fall outside your focus. 

Of course, this all depends on choosing a focus: character and theme. By the beginning of Book 2, you have a sense of the characters and what ideas surround them.

Dede

Public/Private discourse

Guilt

History/Mythology/Legacy

Security

Minerva

Revolution

Love

Purpose

Patria

Faith

Family

Devotion

W 22 April 

S

Dos and Don'ts of Reading Poetry (and Writing): Awful Poems

Collect characterand theme journal

Dos and Don'ts

"Mushrooms" Sylvia Plath (12)

write in class:

171-? (226)

1 Journal (300 words) from 1of the 2 chapters: an important passage, quotation, event, image, continuance of a pattern, development on a theme. Do not stuff with plot summary.

Continue with Butterflies posters

"Mushrooms" Sylvia Plath (12)

summarise

annotate

discuss

write thesis in class: connect plot, theme, and imagery

Hear and read "Alcatraz" 

"Alcatraz" (2:38)?

227-297

1 journal from 1 chapter, same instructions 

45-minute in-class writing on 

"Mushrooms" or "Alcatraz"

F 15 May D

Butterflies posters

Respond to "Mushrooms" and "Alcatraz" essays

(Good work--no very, imageries, dictions, uses/use of;

need to cite lines; quotation can't stand alone)

Summer Reading:

Poetry 180

180 More

Good Poems

Good Poems for Hard Times

Writer's Almanac

Poetryfoundation.org

Poetryoutloud.org

Read and Write on

"5 Ways to Kill a Man" Edwin Brock (111)

Finish 227-297 and Journal

Bring 3 poems next time

Butterflies posters

Select, summarise, annotate and discuss

3 remaining poems

Write: 20 minute journal

301-324

1 journal--same instructions

Discussion prep

Discussion prep

Complete Rough Draft due (bring in electronically)

Work on in class

Paper due

Sudden Fiction