See your explication dates and note consequences of missed deadlines! No second drafts without the full process of the first draft. Understand this!
Grade Three (40%): complete a thorough, researched explication of one of the poems that is at least twenty lines in length. For poems longer than thirty lines, you may work stanza by stanza rather than line by line. Draw conclusions about the poem based on this close reading.
• Draft one with research sources and at least five lines attempted: March 26, both classes.
• Draft two with complete attempt, typed and formatted, my comments addressed: April 16
• Draft three with my comments addressed: April 23
• Proofread and finalize: April 30
• Graded on deadlines and response to comments. Twenty points deducted for missed deadlines; lost credit for work over a week late.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
See Wednesday's post
If you passively waited until today to send in an explication without arranging which poem to work on with me, I will not proceed with you. The same will hold true for the memory piece if you do not arrange it with me to avoid countless repetitions of “The Mower’s Song.”
Situation at 9:27 pm
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Wednesday
Good luck on your exams. Be sure to sign up for your partner, your poets, and your poems this week! A-day especially needs to secure assignments.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Final nine weeks
Final nine weeks
Grade One, due on April 16 (40%)
50% neat, organized, well-formatted, easily followed study guide submitted to me with the following information:
• your two focus poets
• three focus poems from each (one will be the flagship poem)
• five key philosophical points relevant to each poet and his age (metaphysical, romantic, Victorian)
• clear illustrations of each point with a few lines of his poetry and brief, relevant commentary
• five key biographical points about each of your focus poets that are related to their times and poetry
• three concise, pithy comments from world-class critics about each of your two poets and brief application of your understanding of these comments with reference to poetry
• adequate evidence that you have read all required poems by both poets
50% oral commentary in which you will be required (in buddy groups) to do the following during the week of April 16. Unreadiness when called on constitutes late work:
• Ten minutes for this part:
o identify, contextualize, and explain an extract from each of your poets
o apply knowledge from above (avoiding the biographical approach)
o identify key literary features (metaphor, simile, hyperbole, line length, meter, conceits, structure of entire poem or of extract, and more) and explain their contribution to meaning
o use world-class critics in a useful, pointed, appropriate way
o compare and/or contrast the work represented by each extract to another poem by the same author
o compare and/or contrast the work represented by each extract to the other extract
• Ten minutes for this part: Respond to a question in a fully developed way with reference to the Paper 2 rubric adapted for oral response
Grade Two (20%): due week of April 30 or before.
Memorize, introduce, and perform one poem from the poet you have not researched. You may pair for longer poems and interpret as we did “Prufrock.”
Grade Three (40%): complete a thorough, researched explication of one of the poems that is at least twenty lines in length. For poems longer than thirty lines, you may work stanza by stanza rather than line by line. Draw conclusions about the poem based on this close reading.
• Draft one with research sources and at least five lines attempted: March 26, both classes.
• Draft two with complete attempt, typed and formatted, my comments addressed: April 16
• Draft three with my comments addressed: April 23
• Proofread and finalize: April 30
• Graded on deadlines and response to comments. Twenty points deducted for missed deadlines; lost credit for work over a week late.
Grade One, due on April 16 (40%)
50% neat, organized, well-formatted, easily followed study guide submitted to me with the following information:
• your two focus poets
• three focus poems from each (one will be the flagship poem)
• five key philosophical points relevant to each poet and his age (metaphysical, romantic, Victorian)
• clear illustrations of each point with a few lines of his poetry and brief, relevant commentary
• five key biographical points about each of your focus poets that are related to their times and poetry
• three concise, pithy comments from world-class critics about each of your two poets and brief application of your understanding of these comments with reference to poetry
• adequate evidence that you have read all required poems by both poets
50% oral commentary in which you will be required (in buddy groups) to do the following during the week of April 16. Unreadiness when called on constitutes late work:
• Ten minutes for this part:
o identify, contextualize, and explain an extract from each of your poets
o apply knowledge from above (avoiding the biographical approach)
o identify key literary features (metaphor, simile, hyperbole, line length, meter, conceits, structure of entire poem or of extract, and more) and explain their contribution to meaning
o use world-class critics in a useful, pointed, appropriate way
o compare and/or contrast the work represented by each extract to another poem by the same author
o compare and/or contrast the work represented by each extract to the other extract
• Ten minutes for this part: Respond to a question in a fully developed way with reference to the Paper 2 rubric adapted for oral response
Grade Two (20%): due week of April 30 or before.
Memorize, introduce, and perform one poem from the poet you have not researched. You may pair for longer poems and interpret as we did “Prufrock.”
Grade Three (40%): complete a thorough, researched explication of one of the poems that is at least twenty lines in length. For poems longer than thirty lines, you may work stanza by stanza rather than line by line. Draw conclusions about the poem based on this close reading.
• Draft one with research sources and at least five lines attempted: March 26, both classes.
• Draft two with complete attempt, typed and formatted, my comments addressed: April 16
• Draft three with my comments addressed: April 23
• Proofread and finalize: April 30
• Graded on deadlines and response to comments. Twenty points deducted for missed deadlines; lost credit for work over a week late.
Friday, March 2, 2012
More WLA!
See format sample to the right. (Thanks, Augusta!) The works cited page comes from another source, but it shows the right indentation. Send your papers to me by email AND print them.
The cover sheet, the body contents, and the works cited page should be one document with continuing page numbers. Send both the revised WLA 1 and WLA 2 as separate documents.
File naming protocols: Last.First.WLA1.doc or Last.First.WLA2.doc
Your deadline grade will be YES or NO, and it is absolute. Any questions?
Last night at Zaxby's I asked for a side salad. The little girl did not ask for any clarification of any kind. She sent up a house salad, which is huge. I thought to myself, as many of you would, How hard is it to take an order at Zaxby's?
The cover sheet, the body contents, and the works cited page should be one document with continuing page numbers. Send both the revised WLA 1 and WLA 2 as separate documents.
File naming protocols: Last.First.WLA1.doc or Last.First.WLA2.doc
Your deadline grade will be YES or NO, and it is absolute. Any questions?
Last night at Zaxby's I asked for a side salad. The little girl did not ask for any clarification of any kind. She sent up a house salad, which is huge. I thought to myself, as many of you would, How hard is it to take an order at Zaxby's?
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