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Date
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Topic
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Notes,
homework for next class |
| 1 |
Tues, Aug 21
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Introduction
to Course: Four Levels of Poetry |
Read: 13 Ways
pp 1-28 |
| 2 |
Thurs, Aug 23
|
Poetic Reading
and invention |
Read 13 Ways
375-405
Drop add ends Friday,
Aug 24 |
| 3 |
Tues, Aug 28
|
Reading, Writing,
Revision |
Read the poems on the web for Thursday, August 30 |
| 4 |
Thurs, Aug 30
|
WP Chapter 7
*Directive.
Directive examples:
|
Reading
Sheet due
Homework: Write a Directive**
Read 13 Ways Chapter 7
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| 5 |
Tues, Sept 4
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Listing, Cataloging, Repetition, Refrains
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Directive Due
Homework: Write a List poem*
Read 13 Ways Chapter 11 |
| 6 |
Thurs, Sept 6
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Workshopping
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Reading Sheet due
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| 7 |
Tues, Sept 11
|
Sestinas
(Group and individual)
Sestina Links
|
List poem due
Homework: Write a Sestina**
Read
- Thomas Lux 1979 poems
- 13 Ways Chapter 2
|
| 8 |
Thurs, Sept 13
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Workshopping
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Reading
Sheet due |
| 9 |
Tues, Sept 18
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Accentual and Syllabic Verse
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Sestina
due
Homework: Write a poem in Anglo-saxon
meter or in a syllabic form*
Read
- Lux 1986 poems
- Read poems on the web for Tuesday, September 25
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| 10 |
Thurs, Sept 20
|
Workshopping
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Reading
Sheet due |
| 11 |
Tues, Sept 25
|
*Blank verse
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syllabic
or anglo-saxon meter poem due
Homework: Write at least 20 lines
of blank verse**
Read
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| 12 |
Thurs, Sept 27
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Workshopping
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Reading Sheet due
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| 13 |
Tues, Oct 2 |
Blank Verse, continued
Interesting words
|
Blank
verse due**
Homework: Revise your 20 lines
of blank verse if I didn't accept it the first time
Read
- Lux 1994 poems
- 13 ways Chapter 3
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| 14 |
Thurs, Oct 4
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Workshopping
|
Reading
Sheet due |
| 15 |
Tues, Oct 9 |
Rhyming
|
Homework:
slant rhyme assignment
Revised 20 lines due
Read
- Lux new poems
- Prepare for midterm by Reviewing Lux, slant rhyme,
and the pocket definitions
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Thurs, Oct 11
|
FALL BREAK-NO
CLASSES |
|
| 16 |
Tues, Oct 16
|
MIDTERM |
|
| 17 |
Thurs, Oct 18
|
Workshopping
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Reading
Sheet due
Read 13 Ways Chapter 4
|
| 18 |
Tues, Oct 23
|
ADVISING DAY--NO
CLASSES |
TOMORROW IS
THE LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW |
| 19 |
Thurs, Oct 25
|
Workshopping
|
Reading
Sheet due |
| 20 |
Tues, Oct 30
|
Elegies and
Aubades |
Homework: Write
an elegy
Read 13 Ways Chapter 12
|
| 21 |
Thurs, Nov 1
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Workshopping
|
Reading
Sheet due |
| 22 |
Tues, Nov 6 |
Sonnets |
Elegy due
Read 13 Ways Chapter 8
Homework: Write a sonnet* |
| 23 |
Thurs, Nov 8
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Workshopping
|
Reading
Sheet due |
| 24 |
Tues, Nov 13
|
Odes, Praise,
and Looking |
Sonnet due*
Read 13 Ways pp. 140-152
Homework: Write an Ode or Praise
poem |
| 25 |
Thurs, Nov 15
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Workshopping
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Reading
Sheet due |
| 26 |
Tues, Nov 20
|
Pantoums |
Ode due
Homework: Write a Pantoum* |
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Thurs, Nov 22
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THANKSGIVING
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| 27 |
Tues, Nov 27
|
In class exercise |
MONDAY, NOV 26 IS FIRST DAY FOR DOING
ONLINE COURSE EVALUATIONS.
Username is your 92#; password is Birthdate in mmddyy
format (example, birthday of Oct. 1, 1988 would be password
of 110188. April 1, 1988 would be 40188--only 5 digits.)
Pantoum due*
Read 13 ways chapter 13
Homework: Revise your in-class
exercise |
| 28 |
Thurs, Nov 29
|
Workshopping
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Reading
Sheet due |
| 29 |
Tues, Dec 4 |
Villanelle or Terza rima |
All graded
reading sheets due in folder for final grade.
|
| 30 |
Thurs, Dec 6
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Workshopping
|
FRIDAY, DEC 7 IS LAST DAY FOR DOING ONLINE
COURSE EVALUATIONS.
Username is your 92#; password is Birthdate in mmddyy
format (example, birthday of Oct. 1, 1988 would be password
of 110188. April 1, 1988 would be 40188--only 5 digits.)
Villanelle or terza rima due*
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Tues, Dec.11
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POETRY FINAL
12:00-2:30 (Portfolio due) |
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Fri, Dec 14 |
BIBLE FINAL
12:00-2:30 |
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* counts as formal
poem |
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** counts as formal
poem and is required |
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