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English 222 Schedule
Fall, 2015
Tentative Overview
Weeks 4-10
Weeks 1-4
Exploring the Ecosystem
(Where are we? What kind of creatures live here?)
The Moaner (Personal Mode)
The Mad Seer (Visionary Mode)
The Maker (Formalist Mode)
The Bard (Spoken-Word or Performed Mode)
Week 10
Bringing It All Together
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Form: The Craft and Music of Poems
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Lineation (metrical and free verse)
Sound (all forms of "rhyme" as Robert Pinsky uses the wo
Verse Forms or “External Forms” (sonnet, sestina, villane
blank verse, heroic couplet, etc.)
Elements & Devices
Group Project
Week 11
Comprehensive Take-Home Exam
Course Review
Contemplative Reading
Week 12-14
Writing About Poems
Week 15
Writing your own literary analysis.
Performing Poems
Slam-style poetry performances
date below you'll find a reading and possibly a writing assignment due for that day. You may also see a summary of tentative cla
f you miss a class, please check this schedule, read through any new Power Points in Blackboard, and contact a couple classmate
nstructions. Then see me if you have specific, informed questions. (You're expected to be prepared for each class meeting, whet
previous one or not.) You may contact me by email, but please clearly identify yourself, and the course and assignment in questi
chedule is flexible. You will need to check it regularly for updates and changes. Details are added throughout as we progress thr
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Look over our Homepage (link is in the menu of our Bb).
Print out as hardcopy or bookmark on your laptop:
o Personal Poetry Sampler. (You don't need to read these pieces in this sampler yet; just have them available on your laptop or as a print-out
“Meeting, Greeting, and Getting to Know a Poem.” You can find this handout at the top of our Bb menu. Hang it on your refrigerator, or bathroom m
laptop case, or TV, or best friend’s forehead…
Please bring a print-out or laptop copy of our Personal Poetry Sampler.
Introduction Power Point.
First mode: personal and confessional. Tony Hoagland and Lisa Lewis.
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Read assignment for “moaner poem.
Peruse some additional poems in personal-expressive tradition:
o In Personal Poetry Sampler: Gregg Orr.
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Begin discussion of contemplative practices and your Contemplative Journal.
Trial run for “You Have to Breathe, Don’t You?”
Assignment for Contemplative Practice #1: YOU HAVE TO BREATHE ANYWAY, DON’T YOU? (You should complete this
practice three times, on different days, by no later than Tues., Sept. 8th.) Full instructions can be found in our Bb menu, “Contemplative
Journal.”
Review Hoagland, Lewis, and the personal mode Power Point presentation.
Assignment for “moaner poem:
www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/222/PersonalExpressivistPoemAssignment.
docx
Groups work with Gregg Orr.
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ept. 3
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Read Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Chap. “The Essential Discipline,” pp. 1-24.
Work on original poem in the personal mode.
Print out a copy of your draft for class.
Print out 2 copies of the critique form: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/222/Critique Personal Poem.docx
Be completing your weekly contemplative assignment.
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Discuss any issues with contemplative practice.
Groups complete work with Orr.
Personal poem draft due. Bring a print-out.
Also bring 2 print-outs of the critique form: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/222/Critique Personal Poem.docx
Critiques.
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Suggested reading/browsing in Norton,
o “Speaker: Whose Voice Do We Hear,” pp. 68-92.
o Tess Gallagher’s “Sudden Journey,” pp. 75-76.
o Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Changeling,” p.p. 80-81.
o Pat Mora’s “La Migra,” pp. 87-88.
o Marie Howe, “Practicing,” p. 323 .
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o All of Sharon Olds, pp. 561-563.
Browse through “Visionary and Surrealist Sampler”: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/222/Visionary and Surrealist Sampler.docx
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Bring Norton to class.
New contemplative assignment: Beholding.
Meet The Raisin.
Finish discussion of personal mode: Sharon Olds.
Begin new mode: the visionary poem.
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Read in Norton,
o Samual Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” pp. 300-301.
o Theodore Roethke, “The Waking,” p. 217.
o W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” p. 594.
Continue browsing through Visionary and Surrealist Sampler.
PICK 2 POEMS FROM ALL OF THE READINGS (YOUR CHOICE) AND READ THEM EXTRA CAREFULLY. COME TO CLASS PREPARE
SOMETHING ABOUT THEM.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Bring Norton to class.
Finished version of personal poem due. Staple peer critiques to the poem.
Continue work with visionary mode.
Assignment for original visionary poem: www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/222/Visionary Poem Assignment.docx
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
Read Hanh, Chap. 4, “The Pebble,” pp. 33-42.
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Visionary poem draft due. Bring 2 copies.
Look at samples of finished personal poems.
Continue work with visionary mode.
Work with self-selected poems.
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New contemplative assignment: The Pebble.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
Suggested reading/skimming in Norton, Chap. 5, “The Sounds of Poetry,” pp. 199-230.
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Begin work with the formalist mode: lineation and meter. BRING A PERCUSSIVE INSTRUMENT TO CLASS.
New contemplative assignment:
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TBA.
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Finished version visionary poem due. Staple to peer critiques.
New contemplative assignment:
Continue work with formalist mode: meter.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Continue work with the formalist mode: meter.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
Read in Norton:
o Seamus Heaney, “Digging,” pp. 551-552.
o Galway Kinnel, “Blackberry Eating,” pp. 516.
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Continue work with the formalist mode: sound.
New contemplative assignment:
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Continue work with the formalist mode: sound.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Continue work with the formalist mode: brief look at traditional forms (what Norton calls “external forms”) and discuss free verse.
Group presentation assignment.
New contemplative assignment:
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Use for group work: Norton, Chap. 7, “External Form,” pp. 255-289.
Groups work on presentations.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Use for group work: Norton, Chap. 7, “External Form,” pp. 255-289.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Groups work on presentations.
New contemplative assignment:
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Use for group work: Norton, Chap. 7, “External Form,” pp. 255-289.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Groups work on presentations
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Use for group work: Norton, Chap. 7, “External Form,” pp. 255-289.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Groups work on presentations.
New contemplative assignment:
ct. 22—Humanities Council Retreat
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Group presentations on traditional forms.
New contemplative assignment:
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Group presentations on traditional forms.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Spoken-word poetry.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
Read Hanh, Chap. 3, “A Day of Mindfulness,” pp. 27-31.
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Take-home exam assigned. Discuss use of sources.
Course review.
Brief look at experimental poetry.
New contemplative assignment:
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Work on exam.
Look at essay assignment: major essay as well as brief contemplative reflection.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
Read Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Chap. 7, pp. 69-76 and browse “Exercises in Mindfulness,” pp. 79-98.
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Finish exam.
Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
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Exam due at start of class. All materials must be stapled or work will not be accepted. No work accepted after class starts.
Discuss and work on essays.
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Work on weekly contemplative assignment.
Read/browse Norton, “Writing about Poetry,” Chaps. 16-21, pp. 623-681 [specifics TBA]
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Discuss and work on essays.
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Work on first draft of essay.
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First draft of essay due.
Discuss spoken-word assignment.
Discuss contemplative essay.
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Conferences. No regular class meeting.
ov. 26—Thanksgiving Holiday
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Conferences. No regular class meeting.
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Work on essays.
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Finished version of literary analysis due due. Staple all materials with peer critiques.
Finished version of contemplative essay due.
Work on spoken-word assignment.
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Practice performances.
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Spoken-word performances.
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Possibly finish spoken-word performances or open office hours.
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