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Note: Only 20 students accepted in this course.
Class dates: Mondays,
January 5 to April 20, 2015. No class Feb. 16 or April 5.
Total classes: 14
Starting time: 1:00
pm Eastern (Noon Central; 11:00 Mountain; 10:00 Pacific)
Duration: 1
hour
Prerequisite: None
Suggested grade level: 9th
to 12th grade
Suggested high school credit: 1 full
semester Poetry or Literature/ Creative Writing
Fee: $210 for all 14 classes.
Instructor: Sally
Thomas
Course description: An
introduction to the craft of poetry writing, including examination of
traditional English verse forms and free verse, and experimentation with
rhetorical techniques. Though this is a writing-intensive class, students will
also be immersed in the reading of poetry. Through their experiences in
examining how poems work and putting their observations into practice, students
will prepare themselves for the challenge of college by developing heightened
sensitivity as close readers and a greater command of rhetoric in their own
writing, whether poetry or prose.
Course outline:
Class
1: Introduction
Class
2: Verse Systems
Class
3: Accentual Meters
Class
4: Syllabic Verse
Class
5: Forms in Free Verse
Class
6: Ode Forms
Class
7: Quantitative Verse
Class
8: Repetitive Structures
Class
9: Comical Schemes
Class
10: Rhetorical Schemes
Class
11: Variation and Mimesis
Class
12: More About Rhyming
Class
13: Uncommon Schemes
Class
14: Poetry Festival
Homework: At least one
chapter in Hollander each week, plus additional poetry
readings, provided by the instructor. One poetry-writing exercise per week.
