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English Senior Elective: Poetry (ACP/SCP) 119, 120
Overview

TIME FRAME: 1 quarter (9 weeks)
GRADE: 12
CONTACT:

         MAP LEVEL: 4

23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING --- 23.1.1.9.1 --- 23.1.1.9.2 --- 23.1.1.9.5 --- 23.1.1.9.6 --- 23.1.2.9.1 --- 23.1.2.9.2
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING --- 23.1.2.9.4 --- 23.1.2.9.5 --- 23.1.2.9.6 --- 23.1.2.9.7 --- 23.1.3.9.3 --- 23.1.3.9.4
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING --- 23.1.3.9.5 --- 23.1.4.9.1 --- 23.1.4.9.2
23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS - EXPLORE AND RESPOND TO LITER --- 23.2.1.9.1 --- 23.2.1.9.3 --- 23.2.1.9.4 --- 23.2.2.9.1 --- 23.2.2.9.2 --- 23.2.3.9.3
23.3 LANGUAGE ARTS - COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS --- 23.3.1.9.2 --- 23.3.1.9.3 --- 23.3.1.9.4 --- 23.3.2.9.1 --- 23.3.2.9.2 --- 23.3.2.9.6




What defines poetry as a genre?
What techniques and stylistic elements are used effectively by poets to create meaning?
How is form used to reinforce content?
What techniques and stylistic elements define each student's personal style?





Understanding poetry is one of the most challenging aspects in literature as a single word, or even the absence of a word can create the most significant meaning. In this course, students will learn strategies and techniques to better understand the mysteries within the genre. Students will learn about the prose sense, sounds, images, rhythms, and literary devices utilized in poetry. They will learn to analyze and understand the relationship between form and content. They will ultimately learn to understand and appreciate the beauty and complexity of poetry.




Students in Senior Elective: Poetry will develop the ability to:

-- understand the function the following terms: allegory, alliteration, allusion, anapest, apostrophe, assonance, ballad, blank verse, caesura, couplet, conceit, consonance, dactyl, end rime, end-stopped line, epic, exact rime, falling meter, feminine rime, free verse, found poetry, heptameter, heroic couplet, hexameter, hyperbole, iambic meter, imagery, internal rime, irony, limerick, lyric, masculine rime, metaphor, meter. metonymy, monometer, narrative poetry, octameter, octave, onomatopoeia, pathetic fallacy pentameter, personification, pun, rhythm, run-on line, satiric poetry, sestet, sestina, simile, sonnet, stanza, symbol, terza rima, trope, tone,
-- identify and understand the function of literary devices,
-- identify and understand the techniques and function of rime,
-- identify and understand the techniques and function of rhythm,
-- understand the relationship between form and content
-- utilize techniques and strategies for analyzing poetry,
-- utilize research (traditional and electronic sources) to better understand situational context and poet intent,
-- write a major paper which analyzes a selected poet’s style and integrates literary criticisms (ACP level),
-- write 3 papers in a least 2 of the following modes: description, exposition, narration, literary analysis, creative, persuasive, research.







All students will:
-- read and write in a variety of poetic forms and styles,
-- develop techniques and strategies for analyzing poetry,
-- develop techniques and personal style for writing poetry
-- present own poems to class,
-- present an analysis of a poem to class
-- receive instruction on the identification and function of various literary terms
-- be given opportunities to utilize research (traditional and electronic sources) to better understand situational context and poet intent





Assessment of student performance will include such activities as a poetry journal, oral presentations, unit tests, visualization projects, group tableau vivants, class discussion (circle, Socratic seminars), essays (rubric-based, test, research), student- and teacher-generated questioning, and analytical-based class work/homework assignments.





Given the opportunity, students may participate in a poetry reading or poetry slam. All reasonable attempts will be made to secure the visit of or workshop with a published poet.





Sound and Sense (Laurence Perrine, editor)
Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver)
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Ron Padgett)
An assortment of selected poetry (both student- and teacher-selected)
Poems of a student-selected poet





This course does not satisfy the literature requirement for senior electives.

This course may be taken at SCP level, or contracted up for ACP credit with the completion, outside of class time, of additional assignments.