The Dojo has a Docket: Unofficial Schedule for Month of August

So some people have been asking, what's the day to day grind going to be like? Well that's hard to stay I'm still developing it, but I can give you the rough draft for the first month or so.
By the way, we don't actually have some of the books I mention under the date so you'll be dealing with zerox copies. With that said, PLEASE GET A 3 RING BINDER.

Also some of this is inverted style teaching. I.E. In a regular class, for instance math, you do the lesson and then when you go home you do the work. Sadly, the work is when you have questions, but there is no one to guide you at home. So for many of the reading assignments simple definition and example (I'll warn you now, sometimes you'll have to read over the weekend) and then in class we will do what most people would have assigned as homework. I think this keeps people from giving up at home because they, "don't get it."

In case your wondering I took a picture of the first assigned reading so you could get an idea of how much it will really be. the Sharpie is there as a frame of reference. Click to enlarge.

This is not everything we are doing in class, but I've found that most students want to know how much of my life am I going to have to give up on to be able to do you class. I've left the assignments off on purpose. Some of you are a little overzealous :D

First Semester Pacing--August

Week 1 August 9th Possible Nightly readings Perrine's Connotation and Denotation Pages p.686-692	Diagnostic Information: Poetry and Drama diagnostic test Presentation Discussion Essay Topics Possible Readings: "When my move swears that she is made of truth" by Shakespeare  Assignments: Total Possible Pages for this week: 6
Week 2 August 15th--ESSAY DUE THIS WEEK Possible Nightly readings Bedford Close Reading: Analyzing Poetry and Fiction p.19-24 Perrine's Tone p.804- 809 DiYannip.787-793	Basics and Remediation Presentations Historical Notes on 16th Century Literature Poetry:  Diction, Tone, and Mood Possible Readings: The flea by John Donne The Apparition by Jon Donne Since there's no help Michael Drayton Assignments: Total Possible Pages for this week: 18
Week 3 August 22 Possible Nightly readings Bedford p. 26-30 Perrine's 822-830 DiYani 799-802	Basics of Poetry: Figurative Language--Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy, Symbol, Allegory, Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, and Irony Presentations Possible Readings: A valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne To the Virgins to Make Much of time by Robert Herrick Peace by George Herbert Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness The Sun Rising by John Donne Batter My Heart, three-personed God by John Donne Assignments:  Total Possible Pages for this week: 15
Week 4 August 29  Perrine p.822-830 DiYanni 817-820, 824-829	Basics of Poetry: Sound Devices—Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Internal Rhyme, End Rhyme, Rhyme scheme, onomatopoeia presentations Possible Readings: Assignments:  Total Possible Pages for this week: 16

None of this is in stone yet, I still need to let a few people read it and advise and suggest. I just thought I'd give you a heads up because I know 1. You are all very busy people with multiple AP classes, jobs and sports and 2. Many of you are worriers. So to help you I wrote this up. Normally I'm not this structured, but I got the impression that you guys needed this from me. You know what they say, "Cry at the dojo, laugh on the battlefield." 

Keep Calm and Carry on

KHdz

P.S. If you needed a podcast for this class....what would you need it to address?