Week 10 -

Papers due Monday 11/1 (100 pts.)

Reading :
The Elements of Fiction Ch. 2
Stories: How I Met My Husband, Interpreter of Maladies, & A & P (p. 609)

CPS Reading Quiz Friday 11/5 (20 pts.)
Bring Perrine's and composition book to class everyday!

Week 10 Itinerary

Poetry Paper #2 – Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Elements of Fiction Ch. 1
Stories: The Most Dangerous Game & Hunter's in the Snow

Monday – Workshop first draft
Tuesday – Reading Day
Wednesday – Discuss stories (bring comp. book to class!)
Thursday – Workshop second draft
Friday – Short Story Quiz #1 (CPS)

Final Draft due Monday 11/1

Poetry Paper #2

Poetry Paper #2 – Using the suggestions on pp 5-7 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s and “The Book of Thel: An Analysis of Death as a Progenitor of Fear”, write a paper analyzing Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality. (See link below) This paper should be a minimum of 1,000 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper (same partners), so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Thesis and outline of paper – Wednesday 10/20
First draft of paper – Friday 10/22
Second draft – Wednesday 10/27
Final draft – Friday 10/29

http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html

Poetry Quiz II

We will have our second poetry quiz Monday 10/4 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Assonance
Alliteration
Synesthesia
Onomatopoeia
Ceasura
Rhyme
Meter
Tone
Consonance

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters 10-13 won't hurt either.

Poetry Quiz #1

We will have our first poetry quiz on Tuesday 9/28 (50 pts.). This will be mainly a multiple choice exercise, and you will need to know the following terms to do well on it:

Simile
Apostrophe
Metaphor
Personification
Metonymy
Allusion
Paradox

The link I posted earlier will help, as will the glossary of terms on p. 1660 of Perrine's. Re-reading chapters five and seven won't hurt either.

Poetry Paper #1

Using the suggestions on page 8 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper comparing and contrasting any two poems in the poetry section of the text. (pp 647-1024) Although neither is a comparison/contrast essay, reading the sample papers on pp 46-52 might be helpful. This paper should be a minimum of 500 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poems and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Monday 9/20
Thesis and outline of paper – Thursday 9/24
First draft of paper – Monday 9/27
Second draft – Wednesday 9/29
Final draft – Friday 10/1

Poetic Terms Site

Bookmark the site below and refer to it regularly throughout the remainder of the unit.

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm