Poetry: Human Nature (to be updated)

By 3/2 everyone should be at least four chapters into the handbooks.

• Assignments
• 2/13––turn in one analytical paragraph and one poem or paragraph inspired by the reading
• 2/20––turn in the analytical outline for the song of your choice; make sure your theme song paragraph is in also
• 2/27––turn in one analytical paragraph and one poem or paragraph inspired by the reading
• 3/6––turn in one analytical paragraph and one poem or paragraph inspired by the reading
• 3/13––turn in one analytical paragraph and one poem or paragraph inspired by the reading
• Poems from the Human Nature Packet (analytical poem for each)
• 2/23––"Stanzas for Music": what inspires you?
• 2/24––Emily Dickinson poems: what idea or feeling are you obsessed with?
• 2/25––"The Master": prose poems, allusions, loss
• 3/3––"If": what advice would you pass on to an eight-grader about high school?
• 3/4––Robert Frost: meter, rhythm, revisionist history, and what is the right way to read something? what is the right way to understand something?
• 3/5––"Morning Window": what should be the topics of poems? who says?
• 3/6––e.e. cummings: should we mess with people? why? why not?
• 3/10––"Theme for English B": have you ever flipped an assignment?
• 3/11––At the beach with cummings and Bly: what are your childhood memories? wat are your good memories?
• 3/12––"Poetry": what possesses you and turns you joyfully crazy?

Prepare for March 13: everyone will share a piece of writing (out loud).