Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Wed 8/29

Intro, discuss summer reading.

Thur 8/30

Review summer reading.

Discuss summer reading.

All-School Chapel

Fri 8/31

Review summer reading.

Discuss summer reading.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon 9/3

Non e.

Labor Day—No School

Tue 9/4

Think about academic honesty, class participation, semester goals.

Talk about academic honesty, class participation, and semester goals.

Wed 9/5

Journal: semester goals

Journal Due (semester goals)
Senior Ropes Course

Thur 9/6

Thomas Hardy
“In a Wood” (handout)
Yeats
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1084)
Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach” (999)
“Self-Dependence” (handout)
Walt Whitman
“I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” (970)

Discuss Hardy and others.

Fri 9/7

Discuss Hardy and others.
Versification.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon 9/10

Drop

Tue 9/11

Langston Hughes
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1321)
Robert Frost
“Birches” (1128) “The Road Not Taken”(1127)
Robert Penn Warren
“Bearded Oaks” (1349)
Sylvia Plath
“Tulips” (1729)

Discuss Hughes and others.

Wed 9/12

Journal (nature poetry)

Journal Due (nature poetry)
Discuss Hughes and others.
Lab: nature poetry writing

Thur 9/13

Prepare for in-class essay.

In-Class Essay (graded)

Fri  9/14

All School Game Day
Wrap-up nature.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon
9/17

Drop

Tue
9/18

Chaucer
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (17)

Discuss Chaucer

Wed
9/19

Chaucer
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (in small book)

Journal Due
Illustration Due
Discuss Chaucer, share illustrations.
Writing workshop for first essay.
Lab: self-evaluation.

Thur
9/20

John Donne
Holy Sonnets 14, 18 (289)
D. G. Rossetti
“The Blessed Damozel” (1000)

Discuss Donne and Rossetti.

Fri
9/21

Think about first essay topic.

Discuss Donne and Rossetti.
Writing workshop for first essay.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon
9/24

Drop

Tue
9/25

Finish first essay.

First Essay Due (in-class poet) Multiple-choice practice.

Wed
9/26

Yeats
“The Second Coming”(1091)
Hardy
“The Darkling Thrush” (1052)
“The Convergence of the Twain” (1053)

Journal Due
Discuss Yeats and Hardy.
Wrap up religion.

Thur
9/27

In-Service Day

Fri
9/28

In-Service Day
Comments Due

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon
10/01

Drop

Tue
10/02

Chaucer
“The Knight’s Tale”

Discuss Chaucer

Wed
10/03

“The Reeve’s Tale”

Journal Due
Lab: self-evaluation

Thur
10/04

“The Cook’s Tale”

Discuss Chaucer.

Fri
10/05

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale”

Discuss Chaucer.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon
10/08

Columbus Day—No School

Tue
10/09

John Donne
“The Flea”(handout) “Woman’s Constancy” (265)
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
Sir Philip Sydney
From Astrophil and Stella (192-199)

Discuss Donne and Sydney.

Wed
10/10

Adrienne Rich
“Living in Sin”(1679)
Robert Penn Warren
“Love Recognized” (handout)
e. e. cummings
“somewhere I have never traveled…” (1285)
Ben Jonson
“Song: To Celia (I and II)”(299)
Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress”(435)
William B. Yeats
“When You Are Old” (1085)
Langston Hughes
“Harlem Sweeties” (1323)

Journal Due
Discuss Rich and others.
Lab: writing workshop on independent essay.

Thur
10/11

Work on independent essay.

Continue discussion.

Fri
10/12

Work on independent essay.

Independent Essay Due
In-class essay: practice.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon
10/15

Drop

Tue
10/16

Shakespeare
Sonnets (234-241, esp. 3, 18, 130)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese (handout)

Discuss Shakespeare and Browning.

Wed
10/17

Dante Rossetti
Sonnets (handout)
Christina Rossetti
Sonnets (1026)

Journal Due
Discuss Rossettis.
Lab: self-evaluation.

Thur
10/18

Work on essay.

Continue discussion of love sonnets.

Fri
10/19

Work on essay.

Essay Due (class poet)
Writing workshop: love poetry/sonnets.

Date

Readings/Assignments
Due Today

Class Activities

Mon
10/22

Drop

Tue
10/23

Prepare for in-class essay.

In-class essay (graded)

Wed
10/24

Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover” (handout)
“My Last Duchess” (911)

Journal Due
Discuss Browning and dramatic monologue.

Thur
10/25

Dante Rossetti
“Jenny” (handout)
Oscar Wilde
“Impression du Matin”
“The Harlot’s House” (handout)

Discuss Rossetti and Wilde.

Fri
10/26

End of First Quarter
Wrap up love discussion.
Complete self-evaluation.