FAll 2024 Prof L Overman's English 495

Note: Assignments and due dates are subject to change. Please see this schedule for updates regarding assignment due for each week for more details.

Introductions, Syllabus, Semester Plan, Create Your Blog !

Due in class:

• Create & complete your blog during class
• Prior to end of class -Post new blog link in Canvas "Blog site links due" topic on the Blogs module

Due in Class
• Create a blog at blogger.com/wordpress (or a similar site). Post a link to your blog on the "Blog site links due" topic on the BLOG MODULE on our class Canvas.
• MAKE SURE TO ENABLE COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOGS...to allow classmates to post comments on your blogs!!

Due outside of class by Fri 1155pm:

1. Blog #1 due by 1155pm (at least 250 words):
Introduce yourself to potential readers of your blog and discuss what role you feel media technology should play in teaching, at any level.
Have you witnessed any particularly effective or ineffective uses of media technology as a student? Recall that your potential students may be reading this!

Due outside of class by Sat 1155pm:

1. Also, respond to at least two of your classmates’ blogs [Go to Blog/Myths website] (approximately 150 word responses) Reminder: do not post responses in Canvas must be posted on each classmate's Blog directly by 1155pm

Poetry Analysis

Due prior to Class:

1. Review Poetry Analysis Essay prompt (in Canvas Major Essays module)
2. Canvas: Download/Review "Scanning Four Lines" (in Additional readings module)
3. Canvas: Review "Effacing the Classics" (in Creative Writing Poetry module)
4. Handbook of Poetic Forms (in Other Required Textbooks module): Review & be familiar with

• Abstract
• Concrete
• Found poems

5. Review & be familiar with these assigned poetic terms from Poetry Handbook:A Dictionary of Terms:
1. Ambiguity
2. Allegory
3. Accent
4. Alliteration
5. Assonance
6. Blank Verse
7. Connotation
8. Couplet
9. Cadence
10. Consonance
11. Cadence
12. Caesura
13. Feminine Rhyme
14. Free Verse
15. Form
16. Image
17. Metaphor/Simile
18. Meter
19. Onomatopoeia
20. Poetry
21. Poetic Diction
22. Personification
23. Quatrain
24. Rhyme
25. Rhythm
26. Sonnet
27. Structure
28. Stanza
29. Synesthesia
30. Symbol
31. Scansion
32. Tercet
33. Texture
34. Tone

Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVI” (7)

Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (17)

Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (45)

Browning, “My Last Duchess” (64)

Donne “Holy Sonnet X” aka "Death Be Not Proud"(10)

Dickinson, I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died (70)

Print, read, review handouts from Projects link above:

1. Poetry Worksheet (#17

Due in class:

• In groups work to analyze/dissect-Effacing the Classics-on PADLET Review & post outcomes in Creative Writing Poetry module

IN PERSON ATTENDANCE MANDATORY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LAB B

Poetry Analysis

Due prior to Class:

1. They Say I Say, 4th edition: Read/Review "Introduction" pp. 1-18 & "Part One": Sections 1-3, pp.19-51

2. Handbook of Poetic Forms (in Other Required Textbooks module): Read assigned excerpts-

   1. Abstract Poem (1)
   2. Collaboration (51)
   3. Concrete Poem (53)
   4. Found Poem (79)
   5. Free Verse (82)
   6. Ghazal (84)
   7.Haiku (86)
   8.Insult Poem (91)
   9.List Poem (100)
   10.Nonsense (115)
   11.Rap (147)
   12.Sonnet (178)
3. Review Poetry Analysis Essay prompt in Canvas Major Essays module

Due in class:
• Research & Post secondary resource findings for your poem choice on Discussion provided in Canvas Major Essays Module due prior to end of class
• Librarian will be working with us

Due in Canvas outside of class Fri 1155pm: no late work accepted & do not email to me
1. Poetry Analysis Essay: Post a complete draft of your Poetry Analysis Essay on the Major Essays module on Canvas. Please post your paper as an attachment in MS Word format.
2. Please use your first and last name as the name of the MS Word file.

Due in Canvas outside of class Sun 1155pm:
Post responses (at least 250 words each) to your group members' drafts (You can respond by opening her/his post and clicking on the “reply” button.)
Please use the Peer Review Format Guidelines (in Canvas or handout #16 in Projects) to inform your responses to your group members' drafts.
• Warning: if you do not complete peer review for each of your assigned group members your essay grade will be lowered by ONE FULL GRADE!

Creating Poetry

Due prior to Class:

1. Review Poetry Analysis prompt
2. Canvas: Download/Review "Wrecking the First Person" (in Creative Writing Poetry module)
3. Handbook of Poetic Forms (in Other Required Textbooks module) Review again assigned excerpts-

Abstract Poem
Collaboration
Concrete Poem
Found Poem
Free Verse
Ghazal
Haiku
Insult Poem
List Poem
Nonsense Verse
Rap
Sonnet


 

Due in class:
•  Creating Poetry: Wrecking the First Person

Due in Canvas outside of class Sun 1155pm: no late work accepted & do not email to me
1. REVISED Poetry Analysis Essay: Post a complete draft of your Poetry Analysis Essay on the Major Essays module in TurnitIN via Canvas.
2. Please post your paper as an attachment in MS Word format.
3. Please use your last name as the name of the MS Word file.

Creating Poetry

Poetry Slam Performances -attend as ROOMER to perform you work (no Zoomers tonight)

Due prior to Class:

Make sure you are familiar with all terms listed previously in these two readings

1. Handbook of Poetic Forms
2. Read assigned excerpts from Poetry Handbook:A Dictionary of Terms

Due in class:
• Continue to work on Creating Poetry
• Bring a revised version of BOTH poems written in class last week for today's performances
• Poetry Slam performances in the Classroom

Due outside of class FRI 1155pm:

• Blog #2 (at least 250 words): 
Reflect on the similarities and differences between writing poetry and writing about poetry.
How did writing about poetry inform your own poetry, and vice versa?
What did you learn from this experience that you could use in your future teaching?

Due outside of class by SAT 1155pm: