WEEKLY SCHEDULE 1-5
Class Day |
What We Will Do in Class Today |
Homework/Readings done prior to Class |
Writing Projects |
Wk 1: 1/24 |
Note: Assignments and due dates are subject to change. Please see this schedule for updates regarding assignment due for each week for more details.
Introductions, Syllabus, Semester Plan, Create Your Blog !
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Due in class:
- Create & complete your blog during class
- Prior to end of class -Post new blog link in Canvas "Blog site links due" topic on the Blogs module
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Due in Class
- Create a blog at blogger.com/wordpress (or a similar site). Post a link to your blog on the "Blog site links due" topic on the BLOG MODULE on our class Canvas.
- MAKE SURE TO ENABLE COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOGS...to allow classmates to post comments on your blogs!!
Due outside of class by Fri 1155pm:
- Blog #1 due by 1155pm (at least 250 words):
- Introduce yourself to potential readers of your blog and discuss what role you feel media technology should play in teaching, at any level.
- Have you witnessed any particularly effective or ineffective uses of media technology as a student?
Due outside of class by Sat 1155pm:
- Also, respond to at least two of your classmates’ blogs [Go to Blog/Myths website] (approximately 150 word responses) by 1155pm
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Wk 2:
1/31 |
Poetry Analysis |
Due prior to Class:
- Review Poetry Analysis Essay prompt (in Canvas Major Essays module)
- Canvas: Download/Review "Scanning Four Lines" (in Additiional readings module)
- Canvas: Review "Effacing the Classics" (in Creative Writing Poetry module)
- Handbook of Poetic Forms (in Other Required Textbooks module): Review & be familiar with
- Abstract
- Concrete
- Found poems
- Review & be familiar with these assigned excerpts from Poetry Handbook:A Dictionary of Terms:
- Ambiguity
- Allegory
- Accent
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Blank Verse
- Connotation
- Couplet
- Cadence
- Consonance
- Cadence
- Caesura
- Feminine Rhyme
- Free Verse
- Form
- Image
- Metaphor/Simile
- Meter
- Onomatopoeia
- Poetry
- Poetic Diction
- Personification
- Quatrain
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
- Sonnet
- Structure
- Stanza
- Synesthesia
- Symbol
- Scansion
- Tercet
- Texture
- Tone
100 Best-Loved Poems (in Other Required Textbooks module): Read the following poems-
- Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI” (7)
- Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (17)
- Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (45)
- Browning, “My Last Duchess” (64)
- Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon” (30)
- Dickinson, I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died (70)
Print, read, review handouts from Projects link above:
- Poetry Worksheet
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Due in class:
- In groups work to analyze/dissect-Effacing the Classics-on PADLET Review & post outcomes in Creative Writing Poetry module
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Wk 3: 2/7 |
MEET IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LAB C-MANDATORY ATTENDANCE
Poetry Analysis
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Due prior to Class:
- They Say I Say, 4th edition: Read/Review "Introduction" pp. 1-18 & "Part One": Sections 1-3, pp.19-51
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Handbook of Poetic Forms (in Other Required Textbooks module): Read assigned excerpts-
- Abstract Poem (1)
- Collaboration (51)
- Concrete Poem (53)
- Found Poem (79)
- Free Verse (82)
- Ghazal (84)
- Haiku (86)
- Insult Poem (91)
- List Poem (100)
- Nonsense (115)
- Rap (147)
- Review Poetry Analysis Essay prompt in Canvas Major Essays module
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Due in class:
- Research & Post secondary resource findings for your poem choice on Discussion provided in Canvas Major Essays Module due prior to end of class
- Librarian will be working with us
Due in Canvas outside of class Fri 1155pm:
- Poetry Analysis Essay: Post a complete draft of your Poetry Analysis Essay on the Major Essays module on Canvas.
Please post your paper as an attachment in MS Word format.
- Please use your first and last name as the name of the MS Word file.
Due in Canvas outside of class Sun 1155pm:
- Post responses (at least 250 words each) to your group members' drafts (You can respond by opening her/his post and clicking on the “reply” button.)
- Please use the Peer Review Guidelines (in Canvas) to inform your responses to your group member's drafts.
- Warning: if you do not complete peer review for each of your assigned group members your essay grade will be lowered by ONE FULL GRADE!
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Wk 4: 2/14 |
Creating Poetry |
Due prior to Class:
- Review Poetry Analysis prompt
- Canvas: Download/Review "Wrecking the First Person" (in Creative Writing Poetry module)
- Handbook of Poetic Forms (in Other Required Textbooks module) Review again assigned excerpts-
Abstract Poem
Collaboration
Concrete Poem
Found Poem
Free Verse
Ghazal
Haiku
Insult Poem
List Poem
Nonsense Verse
Rap |
Due in class:
- Creating Poetry: Wrecking the First Person
Due in Canvas outside of class Sun 1155pm:
- REVISED Poetry Analysis Essay: Post a complete draft of your Poetry Analysis Essay on the Major Essays module in TurnitIN via Canvas.
- Please post your paper as an attachment in MS Word format.
- Please use your last name as the name of the MS Word file.
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Wk 5: 2/21 |
Creating Poetry
Poetry Slam Performances
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Due prior to Class:
Make sure you are familiar with all terms listed previously in these two readings
- Handbook of Poetic Forms
- Read assigned excerpts from Poetry Handbook:A Dictionary of Terms
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Due in class:
- Continue to work on Creating Poetry
- Bring a revised version of BOTH poems written in class last week for today's performances
- Poetry Slam performances in the Classroom
Due outside of class FRI 1155pm:
- Blog #2 (at least 250 words):
- Reflect on the similarities and differences between writing poetry and writing about poetry.
- How did writing about poetry inform your own poetry, and vice versa?
- What did you learn from this experience that you could use in your future teaching?
Due outside of class by SAT 1155pm:
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ blogs [Go To Blog/Myths website](approximately 150 word responses) by 1155pm
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