Essay #2: Creating a Poetry Handbook

Essay #2: Creating a Poetry Handbook

As a culmination of the work we have done this semester, our second essay assignment will be for each of you to write an entry in what will become a digital poetry handbook for students at City Tech and beyond.

Choose a poem from our reading this semester, one that you have not written about formally and that we have not discussed in class.

Write two annotations, each researched paragraphs that explain some element of the poem to enlighten the reader–OR–write one longer annotation–3 paragraphs. Your annotation(s) might explain a term, a concept, an allusion, a location, a practice, something that helps the reader understand the poem in a more involved way than defining a vocabulary word would.

Vocabulary: Additionally, define 2-3 or more words from the poem, as you see fit.

Then:

Write an explication of the poem, taking into account what you have learned from your annotations and vocabulary words. 750-1000 words. This explication will become part of a poetry handbook for students at City Tech. Use chapter 11 in our textbook to help guide you, as well as the questions on pp 59-60.

Consider linking video or audio or visual or other written material as relevant.

Resources: NO About.com, no sites that sell essays, nothing suspect that you would be embarrassed to have associated with your project. Consider when, where, and by whom was it written and published.

A minimum of 3 resources per annotation, or 4-6 if you are writing one longer annotation.

You must refer to your sources using in-text citations according to MLA styles, and must include a Works Cited list at the end of your essay.

By 4/18: know which poem you will be writing about and which terms you will be writing about in your annotations and glossary

By 4/25: submit a bibliography of resources for your annotations; draft 1—including the annotations– due

By 5/11, final version due (see below)

 

Q: When is Essay #2 due? Essay #2 is due on 11 May 2012 by the end of the day.

Q: Where should you submit it? In two places:

1-in our Dropbox shared folder, named ENG2003-1248FLast-E2 (where FLast is your first initial and last name), in the folder called Essay #2 (not Essay #2 Drafts!) AND

2-as a post on our course blog, without your name–your display name or username will suffice.

Q: In what Format should you submit it?:

1-in Dropbox, it should be a .doc, .docx, .odt, or .rtf file

2-on the blog, it should be a post on the course blog, using the Category “Poetry Handbook” and any tags you want to add.

Q: In what order do the materials belong?

1-Poem’s title and author

2-selected glossary: word and definition

3-annotation or annotations: word, phrase, or idea followed by the annotation

4-title of your essay

5-your essay

6-Works Cited