Level 1
CACW
Schedule
Week 1
Aug. - On Beginnings
13th - Welcome; writing erasure; introductions
14th - Course details, Mahmoud Darwish "To a Young Poet" & Edna St. Vincent Millay, "To a Young Poet" Gregory Orr's Four Temperaments
15th - Mary Ruffle, Lecture, "On Beginnings" and from A Little White Shadow
16th - Diagnostic Test on Literary Terms; Mary Oliver poems
17th - STUDIO TIME/Essential American Poet
*Start reading Through the Looking Glass (study guide)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm
Week 2
Aug. 20th-24th, World into Word
20th - Poem due; Whitman & Rankine, "Leaves of Grass," & "Citizen"
21st - review workshop guides, markup poems for workshop
22nd - Whitman & Rankine (cont.)
Discussion of A Poetry Handbook, pg. 1-18,
23rd - WORKSHOP; Back to School Night
24th - STUDIO TIME/Essential American Poet
Week 3
Aug. 27th - Aug. 31, Echoes
27th - Poem due; The Art of Imitation (lecture & prompt)
28th - Dickinson & Bishop
29th - Discussion of APH, pg. 19-34, markup poems for workshop
30th - WORKSHOP
31st - STUDIO TIME/Essential American Poets
Week 4
Sept. 3rd -7th, Lines
3rd - Labor Day Holiday
4th - Poem due; TEST, Through the Looking Glass
5th - Through the Looking Glass, markup poems for workshop
6th - WORKSHOP
7th - STUDIO TIME/Essential American Poets
*Start reading Grendel
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Week 5
Sept. 10th - 16th, Given Forms & Free Verse
10th - Poem due; Frost & Szymbroska
11th - Discussion of APH, pg. 35-57
12th - Poetic forms - persona, markup poems for workshop
13th - WORKSHOP
14th - STUDIO TIME/Essential American Poets
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Week 6
Sept. 17th - 21st, Diction, Tone, Voice
17th - Primer discussion of Grendel & Review
Tests, essay writing, Intro to Q1 Project
18th - Reading Day and Studio Time
19th - Library / Primary poet research
20th - Clifton & Clare, Dis.APH, pg. 58-75
21st - STUDIO TIME
*Start reading primary poet of choice
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Week 7
Sept. 24th - 28th, Imagery
24th - Persona poem due; Grendel, John Gardner TEST
25th - Grendel
26th - Discussion of APH, pg. 76-91, My Last
Dutchess
27th - WORKSHOP
28th - STUDIO TIME/Essential American Poets
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Week 8
Oct. 1st - 5th, Revision
1st - Poem due; Discussion of Imagism &
Quarterly Review
2nd - APH, pg. 92-122 / Mark-up poetry
3rd - WORKSHOP
4th - STUDIO TIME
5th - Revisions/Review for Exam
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Week 9
Oct. 8th - 12th, the end
8th - EXAMS; Portfolio due
9th - Primary Poet Presentations
10th - Primary Poet Presentations
11th - Primary Poet Presentations
12th - Records Day (no school for students)
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Quarter 1
Week 10
Oct. 15th-19th
15th - Fall Break
16th - Fall Break
17th - Ch. 1 Reading Like a
Writer, Prompt 1, Intro to Borges
18th - Ch. 2 Relevant Detail, Prompt
2, The Gospel According to Mark, "The Gospel" audio"The Shape of the Sword
19th - Writing Prompts 1-2 due,
STUDIO TIME
*Start reading Sula
Week 11
Oct. 22nd-26th
22nd - Reading Day, Ch. 3 of A&C
Allende / Marquez
23rd - Ch. 3 Writing prompt
Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Isabel Allende, "The Art of Fiction, No. 69", Salman Rushdie talk on Marquez
"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" & "Two Words"
24th - Half-day, PSAT Testing,
25th - Chapter 4 - Elements of
Fiction & Flash Fiction
26th - STUDIO TIME
Week 12
Oct. 29th-Nov. 2nd
29th - Flash Fiction Due, Ch. 5 A &
C, Reading Day,
Markup Flash Fiction
30th - TEST, Sula
31st - Sula, Morrison, "The Art of Fiction, No. 139", Morrison live interview
1st - WORKSHOP
2nd - WORKSHOP & STUDIO TIME
Week 13
Nov. 5th-9th,
5th - Story Due, A Studio in the Woods
6th - Markup stories for workshop, Post-
test on Elements of Fiction
7th - WORKSHOP
8th - WORKSHOP
9th - STUDIO TIME, Dr. Campbell out
*Start reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Week 14
Nov. 12th - 16th,
12th - Reading Day
13th - "Why I live at the PO," Eudora
Welty, Welty & Percy interview
14th - William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
15th - STUDIO TIME
16th - Field Trip (Amazing Event)
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Nov. 19th - 23th,
Thanksgiving Break
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Week 15
Nov. 26th - Nov. 30,
26th - Ch. 8 - Ending, "Bullet in the
Brain" - Tobias Wolff *listen
27th - Research Short-story presentation
28th - Research short-story presentation
29th - PDF or hard copy of Fiction
Presentation story due, Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Sherman Alexie, Three Short Stories, Reading Time
30th- AMAZING DAY, River of Words Deadline
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Week 16
Dec. 3rd - 7th,
3rd - Story Due
TEST, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
4th - The Absolutely True Diary, Markup stories for workshop
5th - Ch. 9 Art & Craft, reading &
prompt mark-up stories, read fiction for presentations
6th - WORKSHOP, reading fiction
7th - WORKSHOP, writer Tia Clark,
Scholastic Letter due
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Week 17
Dec. 10th-14th,
10th - Short Story Presentations
Lillie, Zion, Manuel, Siddiqa, Meg
11th - Short Story Presentations
Quinn, Caitlin, Jacklyn, (second story, The Renegade) Bruce
12th - Ch. 10 & Prompt, revision
proposals due
Revisions/Scholastic and street submissions
13th - Revisions/Scholastic and street
submissions, revision conferences
14th - Scholastic & street submissions due
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Week 18
Dec. 17th-21st,
17th - EXAMS
18th - EXAMS
19th - EXAMS
20th - EXAMS
21st - Records Day, No Students
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