Schedule

Quarter 1

Week 1

Welcome and Writing

FOCUS: Intro to class; animal poetry

READING: William Blake

Week 2

Imagination in Poetry

FOCUS: Sensory details

READING: William Blake, William & Dorothy Wordsworth

Week 3

Imagination in Poetry (cont.)

*two poems due, Workshop 1

FOCUS: Imagery - Photography

READING: Rita Dove, Sherman Alexie

WORKSHOP: Group A

Week 4

*Labor Day, Monday

Structure in Poetry

FOCUS: iamb & anapest, sonnets & limericks

READING: Shakespeare, & Edward Lear

VIDEO: Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter

Week 5

Structure in Poetry (Cont.)

FOCUS: Additional forms

READING: Edna St. Vincent Millay & Lucille Clifton

Week 6

Music in Poetry

FOCUS: Music in Poetry

READING: Langston Hughes

Week 7

*two poems due, Workshop 2

Narrative Poetry

FOCUS: Story and Sound in Poetry

READING: Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes

WORKSHOP: Group A

Week 8

Narrative Poetry (cont.)

FOCUS: Conflict, Focus, and Resolution

READING: Richard Wilbur, Digging to China

WORKSHOP: Group B

TEST, Poetry Terms & Vocab.

Poetry Out Loud - Recitation

Week 9

CORE CLASS EXAMS

*Records Day, No students

Quarter 2

Week 10

*Fall Break Monday & Tuesday

“Someone went on a journey,” and “a stranger came to town”

FOCUS: Basics of Fiction

READING: Selected short stories

Week 11

Character

FOCUS: Methods for establishing people

READING: Selected short stories

Week 12

Point of View

*flash fiction due, Workshop 1

READING: Start reading Wonder

FOCUS: Why who's telling the story matters

WORKSHOP: Group A & B

Week 13

Plot

FOCUS: Meaningful events of a causal nature

READING: Wonder, pages 41-117

TEST - Post-test on Character & P.O.V.

**Wonder Presentations, Group 1 & 2

Week 14

Setting

FOCUS: How Setting Connects Plot and People

READING: Wonder, pages 118-185

**Wonder presentations, Group 3 & 4

Week 15 - Thanksgiving Break

Week 16

Voice

*story due, Workshop 2 - Fiction

FOCUS: Word Choice and Tone

READING: Wonder, pages 186-204

WORKSHOP: Group A & B

**Wonder presentations, Group 5

Week 17

Write and write again

FOCUS: Art of Revision

READING: Wonder, pages 205-248

**Wonder presentations, Group 6 & 7

Week 18

Editing and Proofreading

FOCUS: Difference between revision and editing

READING: Wonder, pages 250-310

**Wonder presentation, Group 8

Week 19

*EXAMS*

Polished submissions for graffiti

**This schedule is tentative and subject to change.**