100 10010
120 English Senior Elective: Poetry (ACP/SCP) 119, 120
130 Overview
140 1 quarter (9 weeks)
150 12
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170 4
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210 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding
211 1.9.1
212 1.9.2
213 1.9.5
214 1.9.6
215 2.9.1
216 2.9.2
220 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding
221 2.9.4
222 2.9.5
223 2.9.6
224 2.9.7
225 3.9.3
226 3.9.4
230 23.1 Language Arts - Reading and Responding
231 3.9.5
232 4.9.1
233 4.9.2
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240 23.2 Language Arts - Explore and Respond to Liter
241 1.9.1
242 1.9.3
243 1.9.4
244 2.9.1
245 2.9.2
246 3.9.3
250 23.3 Language Arts - Communicating with Others
251 1.9.2
252 1.9.3
253 1.9.4
254 2.9.1
255 2.9.2
256 2.9.6
300 
300 What defines poetry as a genre?
300 What techniques and stylistic elements are used effectively by poets to create meaning?
300 How is form used to reinforce content?
300 What techniques and stylistic elements define each student's personal style?
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400 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.
500 
500 Students in Senior Elective: Poetry will develop the ability to:
500 
500 -- 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,
500 -- identify and understand the function of literary devices,
500 -- identify and understand the techniques and function of rime,
500 -- identify and understand the techniques and function of rhythm,
500 -- understand the relationship between form and content
500 -- utilize techniques and strategies for analyzing poetry,
500 -- utilize research (traditional and electronic sources) to better understand situational context and poet intent,
500 -- write a major paper which analyzes a selected poet’s style and integrates literary criticisms (ACP level),
500 -- write 3 papers in a least 2 of the following modes:  description, exposition, narration, literary analysis, creative, persuasive, research.
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600 
600 All students will:
600 -- read and write in a variety of poetic forms and styles,
600 -- develop techniques and strategies for analyzing poetry,
600 -- develop techniques and personal style for writing poetry
600 -- present own poems to class,
600 -- present an analysis of a poem to class
600 -- receive instruction on the identification and function of various literary terms
600 -- be given opportunities to utilize research (traditional and electronic sources) to better understand situational context and poet intent
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700 
700 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.
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800 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.
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820 
820 Sound and Sense (Laurence Perrine, editor)
820 Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver)
820 The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Ron Padgett)
820 An assortment of selected poetry (both student- and teacher-selected)
820 Poems of a student-selected poet
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840 
840 This course does not satisfy the literature requirement for senior electives.
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840 This course may be taken at SCP level, or contracted up for ACP credit with the completion, outside of class time, of additional assignments.
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840