College English 106
Poetry Syllabus
Last One….YAY!!!
Monday, May 4
Library for Saturation research paper
HW: Read pages 423-428 in textbook for Wednesday.
Tuesday, May 5
Library for Saturation research paper –due on Thursday, May 21!!!
HW: Read pages 423-428 in textbook for tomorrow.
Wednesday, May 6
Read “Piano,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” and “Sir Patrick Spence”
Answer the questions for “Sir Patrick Spence” and then read the poem “Ask Me” and write
a paraphrase. (Don’t read the example paraphrase below!)
HW: Read background on tone (438) and the following poems: “My Papa’s Waltz,” “For a
Lady I Know,” “The Author to Her Book,” “I like to see it lap the Miles,” “To the Desert,”
“For My Daughter,” “White Lies,” “Monologue of an Onion,” “I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud,” “Her Kind,” “Oh No,” “The Unknown Citizen,” “Second Fig,” “The Workbox,”
“The Chimney Sweeper,” and “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border”
for Thursday. You will be given an assignment for these poems tomorrow.
Thursday, May 7
Poetry notes
Assign poems
HW: Work with assigned poems. Be ready for discussion tomorrow. All will need to take
part in it!
Friday, May 8
Discuss assigned poems
HW: Work on poems. There will be a poetry quiz on Wendesday.
Monday, May 11
Discuss poems
HW: Poetry quiz on Wednesday, May 13
Tuesday, May 12
Finish assigned poems
Work on paper
HW: Prepare for quiz tomorrow. Work on paper.
Wednesday, May 13
Take poetry quiz
Imagery Assignment
HW: Pick poems for imagery assignment. (first come, first serve!) Work on paper. Read
pages 489-490, “London,” “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock,” “Southeast Corner,” “next to
of course god America I,” “Fire and Ice,” “Final Love Note,” “Tears, Idle Tears,” “Love
Calls Us to the Things of This World.”
Thursday, May 14
Discuss poems
Imagery Assignments begin Monday!
HW: Work on imagery assignment. Work on paper.
Friday, May 15
Work on imagery assignment/paper
HW: Imagery Assignments begin Monday. Paper due Thursday!
Monday, May 18
Imagery project presentations
HW: Saturation research paper is due on Thursday!
Tuesday, May 19
Imagery project presentations
HW: Saturation research paper is due on Thursday!
Wednesday, May 20
Work on paper
HW: Saturation research paper is due on Thursday!
Thursday, May 21
Discuss projects and/or final
HW: TBA
Friday, May 22
Last Day of class!
Final
HW: Prepare for the final! Will be on Tuesday, May 26.