The Timeline

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
1.9
Snow Day - OFF / 1.10
Aubades/Pastorals- info and poems / 1.11
Ballads – info and poems
Snow Day - OFF / 1.12
Sestina/Villanelle – Info and poems
Snow Day - OFF / 1.13 Ode/Elegy/Dramatic Monologue – Info and poems
Snow Day - OFF
1.16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - OFF / 1.17
Snow Day - OFF / 1.18
-Review aubade responses: 10 minutes.
-Ballads (adjust work with giving homework if need be)
Sonnets – info and poems
Assign poetic forms groups / 1.19
Sestina/Villanelle – Info and poems
Group meeting: establish who is doing what, and then get to work researching what you can. / 1.20
Ode/Elegy/Dramatic Monologue – Info and poems
Independent work: Compile research, create Works Consulted, select poem
1.23
Sonnets – info and poems
Assign poetic forms groups
**Mrs. Onuoha will be checking off hours!
Team meeting; create and organize your presentation; SIFT poem (fill out progress sheet) / 1.24
Group meeting: establish who is doing what, and then get to work researching what you can.
In Class:
Team Meeting: Presentation practice / 1.25
Independent work: Compile research, create Works Consulted, select poem
In Class:
Presentations
At Home:
Make sure you are ready for the test / 1.26
Team meeting; create and organize your presentation; SIFT poem (fill out progress sheet)
Team meeting; edit the visual; presentation practice (fill out progress sheet)
In Class:
Presentations
At Home:
Make sure you are ready for the test / 1.27
In Class:
Team Meeting: Presentation practice
In Class:
Presentations
At Home: Make sure you are ready for the test
1.30
In Class:
Presentations (grades will be entered in for second semester)
At Home:
Make sure you are ready for the test
In Class:
Poetic Forms Test / 1.31
In Class:
Presentations (Finals Schedule)
At Home:
Make sure you are ready for the test / 2.1
NO CLASS – Finals schedule / 2.2
NO CLASS – Finals Schedule / 2.3 (SECOND SEMESTER)
In Class:
Presentations
At Home: Make sure you are ready for the test
2.6
In Class:
Presentations
At Home:
Make sure you are ready for the test / 2.7
Poetry Test / 2.8
Beginning of Senior Research Essay Unit / 2.9
Senior Research Essay Unit, day two / 2.10
Senior Research Essay Unit, day three

Things you will need to be able to know and do by the end…

  • Define SIFT and apply it to analysis of a poem
  • Identify dominant tones and tone shifts present in a work of poetry
  • Effectively scan and summarize a poem
  • Identify the critical features of a variety of poetic forms
  • On demand, perform an analysis of the tone and effect of a poem as well as what stylistic features produce this tone and effect
  • Identify and critique nonverbal elements of an oral presentation
  • Intentionally adjust nonverbal tone, inflection, volume and pacing in your own oral presentation in order to communicate an idea or theme more effectively