Word of the Day:
kip
limn
maw
Quote of the Week: "Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."
-Robert Frost
Website of the Week: Nietzsche Family Circus
Form V English: American Literature
1. Essay on Shakespeare's The Tempest due! In class: reading!
2. Work on Poetry project; In class: working on poetry not taught in your bell
3./4. Work on Poetry Project; in class: introduction to modernism through art/Modernist poetry
5. Work on Poetry project; In class: working on poetry not taught in your bell
6. Poetry Teaching Begins!
Form V English
American Literature
Mr. Kidd
Poetry Teaching Project
Length: As long as it needs to be to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting
Date for Presentation: schedule to be announced (set in class!)
Date Due: Two school days after you teach
Please read all the directions and speak with me about any questions you may have.
We will draft a teaching schedule for each bell once we have determined our final choices.
Your final composition should have all of the following parts to it: (and keep them in this order unless you have some creative rationale for changing the order)
1. Your individual close reading of the poem (no research)
2. Research Summary: this section of the essay will reflect your understanding of what people have said about your poet, his/her poetry, and even this specific poem. You do not need to have an original thesis for this writing; your job is to do some expository reporting on what people have said about this poem and issues important to it. Don’t get hung up on looking for criticism specific to your poem; that won’t always be available. You may have to look more broadly for research that can help you. Think about themes involved in your poem and research those. A poem about a war, for example, might lead you to some research about the politics and history involved. Also consider how a critic’s comments on another poem may offer guidelines for how you should interpret your poem. Look also for images and audio (especially your poet reading your poem). Use MLA formatting for your documentation of the research you use. All of the information you need about how to cite your work is in Diana Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual. Additional information about citation is available online at:
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/pocket5e/player/pages/Login.aspx?sViewAs=S&sUserType=
(You may find the model papers on the Hacker website to be useful guides to how your final draft should look.)
3. Lesson Plan: make this as detailed as you can; list what questions you will ask (and in what order?), what activities you will do, etc.
4. (To be written after the teaching) A reflection on how your teaching went: write about how it was for you to teach this class and the entire process of becoming an expert on this poem and communicating that understanding of your class.
Your essay will count twice (out of 100 points), and your teaching will count once (100 points) You may revise your essay for this assignment, but your teaching grade is not eligible for revision.
Poetry Assignments
B Bell (18)
Matt Cole "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens
Lee Davis "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Tabor Furr "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
Caroline Grell "oh, oh you will be sorry" ESVM
Gabi Hibbert "Harlem" (2) by Langston Hughes
Michelle Kislyakov "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
Jordan Kovach "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Rachel Lawson "After Apple Picking" by Robert Frost
Garrett Ott "anyone lived in …" e e cummings
Meredith Ross "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath
Alan Salimov "Of Mere Being" by Wallace Stevens
Julie Scaglione "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
Kelley Smith "o sweet spontaneous" e e cummings
Charles Springer "Out, out" by Robert Frost
Katherine Stine "My Papa's Waltz" by Robert Hayden
Harris Thomas "Desert Places" + "Stopping by Woods" by Robert Frost
Joey Velasquez "pity this busy monster" by e e cummings
Grace Webb "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
F Bell (18)
Darrell Boyce "In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop
Harry Burdett "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
Victoria Cornetta "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot
Erin Dorr "since feeling is first" by e e cummings
Kathryn Fink "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop
Nathan Kanter "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods" by Robert Frost
Hannah Luker "Out, out" by Robert Frost
Lily Mantz "I will put chaos into 14 lines" by ESVM
Thomas Moss "Kitchenette Building" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Allison Parks "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
Jay Shah "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
Olivia Shaves "anyone lived in a pretty how town" e e cummings
Holly Shearin "The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams
Nick Swarup "Birches" by Robert Frost
Terence Tsang "Of Mere Being" by Wallace Stevens
DeMarcus Turner "Harlem" (2) by Langston Hughes
Simon Walpole "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
Jay Windsor "pity this busy monster …" e e cummings
G Bell (16)
Wendi Chen "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
Aidan Cochrane "See No Evil" by Billy Collins
Darden Copeland "o, sweet spontaneous" by e e cummings
Blake Culver "The Love Song of JA Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
Erica Fink "anyone lived" by e e cummings
Sarah Ford "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop
Barclay Freeman "The Death of the BTG" by Randall Jarrell
Lindsay Gould "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens
Carter Hall "pity this busy monster" by e e cummings
Libby Henry "Oh, Oh, you will be sorry …" by ESVM
Franklin Kramer "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
Nathan Levy "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
Sarah Nelson "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
Patrick Robertson "Out, out" by Robert Frost
Kevin Tan "Heaven" Cathy Song
Ian Tembe "Stopping by Woods" by Robert Frost
Form VI English: Philosophical Literature:
1. Read pp. 239-273 in The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2. Read pp. 274-307 in The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
3./4. Finish The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
5. Work on Profound Thought #? Essay in the lab
