Monday, March 26, 2007

Elements Syllabus

March 27, Tuesday:
• Set up personal blog:
• Sketch #1 (150-200 words)
• Read Syllabus!
• Jack Kerouac's Sketch, "First Book"
• Quotation Response

March 28, Wednesday:
• Sketch #2 (200-250 words)

March 29, Thursday:
• Tyler Doherty's "Against Aristotle," Poetry Equals," "Vermin Blues," "View with Dr. Who and Rabbit"
• Quotation Response

March 30, Friday:
• Sketch #3 (200-250 words)

April 3, Tuesday:
• Hoot 1-24
• Week 2, entry 1

April 4, Wednesday:
• Hoot 25-50
• Quotation Response

April 5, Thursday:
• Paper #1: brainstorm (1 full page)
• Week 2, entry 2

April 6, Friday:
• Hoot 51-75
• Vocab/Grammar Quiz

April 10, Tuesday:
• Hoot 76-100
• Paper #1: 1st paragraph

April 11, Wednesday:
• Hoot 101-125
• Week #3, entry 1

April 12, Thursday:
• Hoot 126-150
• Quotation response

April 13, Friday:
• Hoot 151-175
• Week #3, entry 2

April 17, Tuesday:
• Paper #1: rough draft

April 18, Wednesday:
• Hoot 176-200
• Week 4, entry 1

April 19, Thursday:
• Hoot 201-225
• Week 4, entry 2

April 20, Friday:
• Paper #1: due

April 24, Tuesday:
• Hoot 226-250
• Week #5, entry 1 (Write a longwinded entry describing homelife)
• Quote response

April 25, Wednesday:
• Hoot 251-275
•Quotation response
• Paper #2: brainstorm (1 full page)

April 27, Friday:
• Hoot 276-end
• Week #5, entry 2

April 28, Saturday:
• Final Draft of Paper #1

May 1, Tuesday:
• Test on Hoot

May 2, Wednesday:
• Week #6, entry 2 (write a 300+ word nighttime entry--incorporate both what is happening inside and outside into your writing).

May 3, Thursday:

• Mrs. Warren's Profession 1-15
• Quotation response

May 4, Friday:
• Mrs. Warren's Profession 22-37
• Pick topic for paper #2

May 8, Tuesday:
• Read Tyler Doherty's "Autobiography"
• Week #6, entry 1: Write your own autobiography list poem (2 pages)
• 1st Paragraph paper #2

May 9, Wednesday:
• Mrs. Warren's Profession 38-56
• Week #7, entry 1

May 10, Thursday:
• Mrs. Warren's Profession 57-70
• Week #7, entry 2

May 11, Friday:
• Paper #2: rough draft (bring in to class typed out and ready for peer review)

May 15, Tuesday:
• Mrs. Warren's Profession 71-87
• Week #8, entry 1

May 16, Wednesday

• Week #8, entry 2

May 17, Thursday

• Paper #2: Due

May 18, Friday
• Test: Mrs. Warren's Profession & Vocab/grammar

May 22, Tuesday
• Masaoka Shiki readings
• Week 9, entry 1

May 23, Wednesday
• Masaoka Shiki readings
• Week 9, entry 2
• Select 10 best poetic journal entries from term (bring them into class printed out)

May 24, Thursday
• Work on chapbook of poetic journals

May 25, Friday
• Work on Chapbook of poetic journals

May 30, Thursday:
B Block Exam : Chapbook due, reading of the chapbooks