Poetry Project (100 points total) The Poetry Project demands that you deal with ONE poem for the entire project. You must choose a poem from the provided—no two students can do the same poem! We will select poems first thing on Friday 3/14 by random order. The final project will have three major components. You will be given ample class time in the library to research, write, and construct your project. SPEND YOUR TIME WISELY!! Note: each section has a different due date! You must complete the steps in this order!

1. Technical Dissection (20 pts): You need to complete a TP-CASTT analysis of your poem. Please provide a clean typed copy of your poem as well as the TP-CASTT dissection (also typed!). Do not COMBINE the two. I need a clean untainted typed copy of your poem to reference for assessment. TP-CASTT explanatory handout is attached. DUE DATE: Tuesday (start of class), 3/18. Lab days: Fri 3/14, Monday 3/17.

2. Poet’s Corner (50 pts): This research paper will have four objectives: 1. To provide a quick biographical intro to your poet. 2. To provide an informed description of the typical features (signature elements) of the poet’s body of work and what people say about this poet’s body of work. 3. To provide an explanation as to what extent your selected poem is “typical” of this poet’s work. 4. To incorporate at least three quotes in your Poet’s Corner essay.  Format: At least 1.5 pages in length (double spaced, 12 font, Times New Roman or Arial)  Includes parenthetical citation for quotes and paraphrases (anything you researched should be cited!) and a works cited with at least 2 sources (you may use Noodle Tools!) Poet’s Corner DUE DATE: Monday 3/24. Lab days: Tues-Fri, 3/18-3/21.

3. Digital Presentation of Poem and Poet (30 pts): This will include the entire transcript of the poem presented with text and images in Photostory 3 format (or another presentation mode if you would like- but it must have SOUND). Accuracy is critical; be very careful about capitalization and line division! This presentation should also include a brief biography of the poet. Be sure to include a title slide (title of poem and poet as well as your name) and a WORKS CITED slide for the poem, the source(s) for the biographical information, and any music credits you might need to include. Presentation Due Date: Start of class Thurs 3/27. Lab days Mon-Wed, 3/24-3/26. MUST SAVE IT TO THE SHARED DRIVE FOLDER FOR BL!! SAVE AS YOUR FULL NAME!!!

OVERALL HELPFUL HINTS: The following resources in our virtual reference library will be helpful: Biography in Context and Literature Resource Center. We also have actual reference books: Poetry for Students and British Writers series. Noodle Tools will also be helpful. If you must Google something, make sure your source is credible! Ask me or Mrs/ Villegas if you are not sure!

OVERALL in your research project, you should use a minimum of two sources!

Poets and Poems to choose from—you may also search on-line to find any other poem by one of these poets. Just print out a copy of the poem and bring it to class with you on Friday! (I would suggest that you pick a first and second choice!). If you select a different poet, make sure he/she is British and wrote from 1800-1960. Wilfred Owen (955): Early Romantic Poets: “Dulce et Decorum Est” William Wordsworth (473): Later 20th Century Poets: “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” Stevie Smith (960) : “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known” “Not Waving But Drowning” “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” “Pretty” (526): W. H. Auden (963): “She Walks in Beauty” “Musee de Beaux Arts” “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth “Stop All the Clocks” (not in textbook!) Year” Henry Reed (973): “We’ll Go No More A-Roving” “Naming of Parts” (542): Dylan Thomas (975): “” “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight” “Sonnet: ” “The Force That Through the Green Fuse “To---“ Drives the Flower” “A Dirge” Seamus Heaney (996): (556): “Midnight” “Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou “Follower” Art” Margaret Atwood (999): “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” “Disembarking at Quebec” Later Romantics/Victorian Poets: “Siren Song” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (620): “Crossing the Bar” ** Check out the rubrics on my CWBL “Tears, Idle Tears” webpage! “From In Memoriam-“Any one of the numbered sections (five of them are in the Brit Lit book) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (668): “Grief” “How Do I Love Thee” “If Thou Must Love Me, Let it Be for Nought” Any of her Sonnets (browse on-line sites) Early 20th Century Poets: William Butler Yeats (928): “The Song of Wandering Aengus” “When You Are Old” “An Irish Airman Forsees His Death” “Sailing to Byzantium” Siegfried Sassoon (942): “Everyone Sang” Rupert Brooke (944): “The Soldier” T.S. Eliot (949): “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” (not in the British Lit textbook, but you can find it easily on-line)