Monday

Please please please don't let us mess it up this time!

Wednesday Thursday Friday

A-day finished the Know-It-Alls and received an outline to help prep for Paper 2 on Tuesday. Here are some helpful documents for those who would rather succeed than complain:

Pretty Good Paper 1 Sample
Pretty Good Paper 1 Mnemonics -- study Sunday night to remember what to focus on during Paper 1
Pretty Good Paper 2 Sample (Of course, this student wrote about novels. YOU must write about your Part 3 poets: Marvell, Keats, Yeats, Plath)
Pretty Good Paper 2 Organizer -- study Monday night to better organize your thoughts. Also study your study guides thoroughly and ABOVE ALL!!! reread the poetry.

Let me suggest that David Constantine's "Watching for Dolphins" shares a great deal with Sylvia Plath's "Channel Crossing." We did not even discuss rhyme, but Constantine does use it -- slant rhyme, hard rhyme, feminine rhyme, and sometimes just plain consonance -- but there are sound correspondences that are clearly purposeful though not fixed in position.

Tuesday

Students continued their Know-It-Alls and received a small measure of guidance for preparing for their Paper 2, to be conducted on Tuesday, May 5.

Monday

A-day completed their Know-It-All projects -- except for one particular student who scampered off to more important things in Columbia. Next time we will practice approaches to paper 2 questions.

Friday

Today was another pretty good presentation day.

Announcement: If you botched your Know-It-All, you may reverse the roles and redo it for a better grade if you do so BEFORE the end of the week.

Thursday

Wow. Great start, A-day. That was terrific.

Wednesday

Students worked on Know-It-All projects. Deliveries of those babies begins Friday for B-day.

You should have, upon entering class --

1 copy of your study guide for me
Clean copies of your three (x2) poems
Clean copies of your critical quotes (x2)
A timer
A clean copy of your rubric
A world o' knowledge

Tuesday

Students worked on their Know-It-All projects. Thursday is the day! Those who are not ready when called upon will be counted late. I will randomize the names and go in the order the spreadsheet tells me to -- unless people volunteer.

Monday

Students worked on final Know-It-All projects, which are due on Thursday/Friday. Be sure to have a printed copy of your study guide with you on presentation day. Use the template provided. Be more detailed in your study guide than you are likely to have time for in your presentation.

You may have on your desk:

• a blank rubric
• a clean, unmarked copy of your three main poems
• a clean, unmarked copy of your quotes from critics

Friday

Know-It-All projects and the study guides are due in class on April 23.