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= Apri. 13 – April. 17, 2009 = |||||| Mr. Wensman ||
 * = Assignment Sheet –English 9 =
 * UNIT: Mary Oliver’s //American Primitive// ||
 * **Objectives** || **Homework** ||  ||
 * **__Monday, April 13:__**

1. Return devices quiz & review 2. Share/discuss sonnets. 3. Introduce Oliver’s **//American Primitive//** & annotation process || 1. Read “August” on p. 3 and make post it note annotations. DO NOT write in the book! 1. “Explicate” Oliver’s “August” 2. “Read 7 / Explicate 2” process 3. Identifying themes and motifs** || Read: “Mushrooms,” “The Kitten,” “Lightening,” “In the Pinewoods, Crows and Owl,” “Moles,” “The Bobcat,” “Fall Song” (pp. 4-18), and choose two of these poems to fully annotate, making extensive post it notes in your book on your poem. ||  ||
 * 2. Oliver journal 1- Write a journal explaining what parts of the poem seem important. Explain what you think this poem says about the speaker. **Note, ALL journals for this unit should be on your laptop. I’ll check them in class, but collect them electronically at the end of the unit. This means you need to bring your laptop to class every day. ||  ||
 * __Tuesday, April 14:__
 * __Wednesday, April 15:__

2. Identify motifs/themes, speakers & devices.** || Read seven poems and pick two to explicate for the class: “Egrets,” “Clapp’s Pond,” “John Chapman,” “Tasting the Wild Grapes,” “First Snow,” “Cold Poem,” “Poem for the Blue Heron” (pp. 19-33). Again, pick two poems to fully annotate, making extensive notes in your book on your chosen poem. ||  ||
 * 1. Oliver groups: small group discussions
 * ==Thursday, April 16:==

1. Oliver groups: small group discussions 2. Oliver Journal #2 **- Reflecting on your group’s discussion, record and support one interesting insight you now have about the poem.** || D Night. ||  || 1. In-class explication. Bring your laptop!! Put it in the drop folder at the end of class.** || Read: “Flying,” “Postcard from Flamingo,” “Vultures,” “Rain in Ohio,” “Web,” “Skunk Cabbage,” and “Spring” (pp. 34-45). Read seven, annotating two poems for small group discussion. Oliver Journal #3 ** – Reflecting on all the poems of //American Primitive// so far, what connections between the poems are you starting to see. Be specific & give examples. ** ||  ||
 * __Friday, April 17:__

= Apr. 20 – Apr. 24, 2009 = |||| || 1. Seminar Discussion- Motifs & themes in** //American Primitive// || Read: “Morning at Great Pond,” “The Snakes,” “Blossom,” “Something,” “May,” “White Night,” “The Fish” (Oliver 46-56). Mark motifs across all poems. ||
 * =Assignment Sheet –English 9=
 * UNIT: Mary Oliver’s //American Primitive// ||
 * Objectives || Homework ||
 * __Monday, April 20:__
 * __Tuesday, April 21:__

2. Assign Oliver essay** || Read: “Honey at the Table,” “Crossing the Swamp,” “Humpbacks,” “A Meeting,” “Little Sister Pond,” “The Roses” (Oliver 57-67). You know the drill: Annotate two. In particular, look for relationships between motifs & larger themes. ||
 * 1. Oliver groups- Discuss motifs across the poems.
 * ==Wednesday, April 22:==

1. Oliver groups 2. Oliver Journal #4 **- Reflecting on your group’s discussion, record and support one interesting insight you now have about the poem.** || 1. Read: “Blackberries,” “The Sea,” “Happiness,” “Music,” “Climbing the Chagrin River,” and “Bluefish.” Annotate two.

2. Pick your image or motif for you close reading paper. || 1. Concluding Oliver Seminar discussion** || D Night. ||
 * __Thursday, April 23:__
 * __Friday, April 24:__

2. Journal #5** – Which of the last four poems do you think would best serve as the final poem of the collection. Why? ||
 * No Class – D-Day!** || 1. Read the last four poems, annotating all of them, with an eye to tying up themes and motifs.