9, and Wright Library Lawn poem.
Notebook Check: Click here to see notebook requirements.
Check out various poetry notebook assignments: favorite/least favorite food, a special moment, special person, Haiku, sonnets, Theme for English
Poems to Study and Memorize: "Dreams," "Fire and Ice," "Anabelle Lee", and "El Dorado."
Shakespearean Love Sonnets: Click here to view a list of all Shakespeare's sonnets (Mr. Geib recommends sonnets 29, 116, 138, and 146). Click here to see the Shakespearean sonnet group rubric that Mr. Geib will use to grade you, and here for the entire sonnet assignment rubric. Click here to download Shakespearean sonnet Inspiration template. Check out this site for help with sonnets. Good luck!
Other poems we will discuss in this unit: W.B. Yeat's "When You Are Old", "He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven", and "Lines Written in Dejection." Langston Hughes's "Theme for English B.", T.S. Eliot's "A Dedication to My Wife", "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," Stephen Crane's "The Heart", and John Donne's "To His Mistress Going to Bed" and "Holy Sonnets X" and "XIV" "The Garden of Love" by William Blake, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, "my comrades" by Charles Bukowski, "Eleanor Rigby" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and "The Village" by Luis Rodriguez. Archibald MacLeish's "Poem in Prose", William Blake's "To the Accuser Who is God of This World", Boris Pasternak's "The Wind", Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," William Shakespeare's Sonnets #55 and #130, Jorge Luis Borge's "To Whoever is Reading Me", Anna Kamienska's "A Prayer that will Be Answered", Robert Graves's "Counting the Beats", "To One Shortly to Die" by Walt Whitman, Edward Abbey's "The Eagle", Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died", Mark Strand's "The End", and Dylan Thomas's "In My Craft or Sullen Art."
Poetry Essays: The poems for ninth grade expository essays. This is the rubric students and then Mr. Geib will use to assess poetry essays. Be advised!
Concluding Sermon: "Oh, me, oh life!" and Whitman's barbaric yawp!
Digital Portfolio: Check out the poems to be posted to your portfolio for final exam.
Culminating Project: Go to it!
