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Add Policy, Intro to class, Syllabus
Questionnaire, Find Someone
Good poems, bad poems. Share song lyrics
Bring favorite song lyric to class
Read: Reading Imaginative Lit. (1-7), Reading Poetry Responsively (671).
Approaching Poetry Ideas. Discuss Images. Look at some poems.
Read: Images (752-775).
Hand out supplemental poetry packet, discuss more poems, explain RR and CC
Read: Reader Response Theory and Cultural Criticism (2104-2109).
Examine poems from Sharon Olds; Class Phone List
TEE # 1 in class—15 minutes; discuss TEE focal poem
Lecture on Sound and Rhythm
Read: Sounds (832-849, “Jabberwocky”), and Patterns of Rhythm (863-880,
“Papa’s Waltz”).
Class exercise to test qualities of S & R: 1) physiological and 2) mnemonic
Lecture on forms of poetry. Hand out Lum Packet.
Read: Poetic Forms (885-903)
TEE # 2: Discuss Sound and Rhythm + 4 original lines of Iambic Pentameter.
Free day!
Essay I Prompt (rough due T 3/2, final due Th 3/4)
Discuss a few Lum poems.
Read: Lum packet of poems.
Hand out sample poetry essays
TEE # 3 in class—20 minutes; discuss TEE focal poem
Bring written notes and ideas on sample essays. Discuss sample essays
Read: Writing About Poetry (708-714), Reading and Writing (2129-2164), and sample essays.
Rough draft due, bring 4 copies. Group workshop rough.
Essay I due at beginning of class. Lecture on Characterization in fiction.
Read: Reading Fiction (11-15) and Character (99-104).
Hand out story packet. Discuss Dubus’ short story. Read: Killings (Dubus, 84)
Lecture and discussion on use of plot in fiction. Read: Plot (64-72).
TEE # 4: Who is worse, Matt Fowler or Richard Strout?

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TEE # 5 in class—What is the conflict in Hemmingway’s story? Discuss
Hemmingway’s short story.
Read: Point of View (173-178) and A Clean Well-Lighted
Place (Hemmingway).
“Love” Excerise.
Hand out Essay II Prompt (rough due T 3/30, final due M 4/1).
Discuss Carver’s short story. Read: Theme (247-250) and What We Talk About When
We Talk About Love (Carver).
Discuss Poe’s short story. Read: Style, Tone and Irony (282-286).
Read: Cask of Amontillado (Poe).
4 copies of Essay II rough. Workshop.
Essay II due. In-class: what do you know of fairy tales? Discuss.
Begin discussing fairy tales. Read: Introduction (ix), Yours, Mine and
Ours (Haase, 353-364).
Group member requests. Discuss Little Red Riding Hood. Read: LRRH (3-24).
Harry Potter Groups. Discuss Beauty and the Beast. Read: B & B (25-32…
DeBeaumont, Straparola, Grimm, ‘Swan Princess’ and Afanasev).
Essay III Prompt (due Th 4/29). Discuss Cinderella. Read: Cinderella (101-
137…Perrault, Grimm, Jacobs, ‘Princess in Suit of Leather’).
Film of Snow White or Little Mermaid. Read corresponding set of tales.
Essay III due. Final Essay Prompt (due W 5/12).
Group I of Harry Potter presents.
Group II of Harry Potter presents.
Group III of Harry Potter presents.
Group IV of Harry Potter presents.
Final Essay due.