--Week Three--

Class Meeting

1. Houses Workshop. List of House Members HERE.

You will have 20 minutes to prepare your House's presentation of the poem assigned to you last week. The presentation schedule is below. I will read the poem out loud, after which you will have 10 minutes to present the poem and answer questions from the class and me. 

1. Morrison   “Funeral Blues” Responses	2. Dickinson "Those Winter Sundays" Responses	3. Browning   “Her face” Responses
4. Butler  “What lips...” Responses	5. Plath “Holy Sonnet X” Responses	6. Shakespeare  “Sonnet 130” Responses.

2. Discussing Essay 1

By next Friday at 9:00AM:

1.  Write Journal 2 on An extract from The Souls of Black Folk (1930) by W. E. B. Du Bois and “Let America Be America Again” (1935) by Langston Hughes.
• Instructions and Prompts for Journals
2. Read Kindred: "Prologue"-"The Fire” and complete quiz on Blackboard
3. Complete Poetry Analysis Form 2 for the poem assigned to your House. Be prepared to defend your answers to the rest of the House members and the class on Tuesday.

   Dickinson/Plath “Bitch”(p. 27)	Morrison/Shakespeare  “Daddy” (p. 25)	Browning/Butler "Because I could not stop for Death" (p. 22 )
   Poetry Analysis Form 2	Poetry Analysis Form 2	Poetry Analysis Form 2

   
   

--Week Two--

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem  

and hold it up to the light  

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem  

and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room  

and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski  

across the surface of a poem

waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope  

and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose  

to find out what it really means.

--Billy Collins

1. Review of online work for Week One. Check:

• My responses to your questions and comments to pages 10-17 of the class packet HERE
• Class responses to Symbol and Allusion HERE. 

     2.  Houses Workshop:

• Seating by Houses. Find your House mates HERE.
• Poetry Analysis: "Song for a Dark Girl" (packet, page 20). Each House will be charge of 2-3 aspects of the poem. Instructions HERE. 
• Class Discussion

     3. Read "Online Writing = 21st Century Writing," "Requirements and Tips to Writing a Good Journal Entry," and "Criteria for the Evaluation of Journal Entries" (packet, pages 7-9).

Homework

By Thursday 9/26 at 9:00am:

1. Complete the Poetry Analysis Form for the poem assigned to your House (below). Be prepared to defend your answers to the rest of the House members and the class on Tuesday!

Shakespeare “Sonnet 130” (p. 19)	Plath  “Holy Sonnet X” (p. 21)	Browning   “Her face”  (p. 21)
Poetry Analysis Form	Poetry Analysis Form	Poetry Analysis Form

Butler “What lips my lips...”  (p. 23)	Morrison “Funeral Blues”(p. 23)	Dickinson  “Those Winter Sundays” (p. 26)
Poetry Analysis Form	Poetry Analysis Form	Poetry Analysis Form

If you have not already:

1. Complete Journal 1 on "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852) by Frederick Douglass

• Instructions and Prompts for Journals

2. Read "Poems for Presentation and Quiz" closely (packet, pages 18-20)
3. Study the Literary Terms for Poetry in this PRESENTATION (or this PDF)
4. Take the Quiz on Literary Terms I and Poems on Blackboard

Ongoing during Poetry Unit: Get and read Octavia E. Butler's Kindred.

P.S. For Dr. X: Slides on Images

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--Week One--

Welcome to our ENG 102! This blog is our assignment space and network hub. If you have questions, my contact information is on the syllabus as well as under the section titled "About" on this blog.

Class Meeting

1. Read/Discuss: Syllabus/Packets/ Assignments and Grading Form
2. Dr. X Presents Writing (as) Process:   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LI5NHYXqRwGDWkApEgknHYL7asBbn2UYIMDtCSBLo9k/edit?usp=sharing
3. The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Challenge
4. Fill this information FORM.
5. Join: GoogleDrive/Groups
• Create your Google account HERE, if needed.
• Create a Google Drive Folder and add it to our Shared Class Folder by following the instructions on the whiteboard
6. Follow: How to download Kindred
7. Fill out this Symbol and Allusion FORM 

Homework
By next Friday at 9:00AM: 

1.  Read "Poetic Language" and "10 Steps I follow when analyzing a poem"  (packet,  pages 10-11). See this theory in action in my analysis of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" (pages 12-17; poem on page 22).  Submit one question or comment about any of the information on these pages to this FORM. We will discuss your questions and more next class.
2. Complete Journal 1 on "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (1852) by Frederick Douglass.
   

Ongoing until 9/27 by 9:00AM

1. Read "Poems for Presentation and Quiz" closely (packet, pages 18-20)
2. Study the Literary Terms for Poetry in this PRESENTATION (or this PDF)
3. Take the Quiz on Literary Terms I and Poems on Blackboard

Ongoing during Poetry Unit: Get and read Octavia E. Butler's Kindred.

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