Assignment Author
CWRL Assignment DatabaseSoftware / Hardware
Internet Access
Pedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Critical thinking, textual analysis and close reading
Assignment Description
Assignment: Weekly exercises and peer review
Every Monday, before class time (noon), students will post a poem to the E318 LiveJournal community
(http://www.livejournal.com/community/english318/) that responds to the assignment from the syllabus for that week.
Here are the due dates and topics for the assignments:
24 January: Haiku
31 January: Anglo-Saxon lines
7 February: At least 15 lines of iambic pentameter
14 February: New song lyrics for an old song
21 February: Sonnet
28 February: Invent a stanza form
7 March: Villanelle, sestina, or pantoum
28 March: A poem in which a family member meets a famous person
4 April: Letter poem
11 April: Dramatic monologue
18 April: Secret poems
25 April: Student’s choice (form, subject, etc.)
By class time (noon) every Friday, students will have posted at least one comment on each of their classmates’ Monday posts to the E318 LiveJournal community. To simplify finding the poems for a given week, please use the community’s “Calendar” function, available from the menu on the right side of the page.
We will regularly refer to comments and posts from the LiveJournal community site during in-class workshops, so please be sure to keep up with the reading from your peers and to use the LiveJournal to set out your ideas in advance of our in-class discussions.