Term 1, Week 2
17 August – 21 August 2009
English 11
Things to do:
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Cover your book!
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Keep up with assignments!
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Bring class supplies!
Monday, 17 August 2009
Finish Author’s Chair
Read “A Fews Don’ts by an Imagiste”
Intro to T.S. Eliot
Read and Discuss “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”
Discuss Prufrock Project
Make a list of images from the poem
Homework: Work on Prufrock Projects!!
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Continue “The Love Song…”
Answer Thinking Critically questions on pg. 663 -- #1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 14
Read “The Oddest Love Song” – pg. 662
Intro to William Carlos Williams – “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “The Great Figure”, “This is Just to
Say” – pg. 667 - 669
Write your own “So much depends upon…” and “This is just to say…” poems. You will present
these to the class Model them after Williams poems (same length, structure, etc.)
Intro Marianne Moore – “Poetry” – pg. 672
Read “Ars Poetica” – pg. 673. Compare to “Poetry”
Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4 on page 674.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Journal
Continue Marianne Moore & Archibald MacLeish, if necessary
Intro to e.e. cummings – “what if a much of a which of a wind”, “somewhere i have never
travelled, gladly beyond” – pg. 676 – 677
Review for test
Homework: Finish Prufrock Projects!!!
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Journal
Prufrock Projects Due!!!
TEST Review: historical background, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams,
Marianne Moore, e.e. cummings
Friday, 21 August 2009
Journal
TEST ON MODERN POETS
Intro to Modern American Fiction, historical background
Intro Ernest Hemingway – “Soldier’s Home” – pg. 682 – 691
Homework: Finish “Soldier’s Home”