This class offers you the opportunity to become proficient in close reading and critical analysis of poetry with different styles, and from several different periods.
Outcomes: 1) practicing the skill of close reading & developing annotation strategies for literary texts, 2) mastering key literary terms and integrating them into your own analyses of literature, 3) placing the poems we read in conversation with their historio-political contexts, 4) using different literary theoretical lenses to ask new questions of our texts, and 5) articulating [explaining/stating] your interpretations: in class, on tests, and for written assignments.
Outcomes: 1) practicing the skill of close reading & developing annotation strategies for literary texts, 2) mastering key literary terms and integrating them into your own analyses of literature, 3) placing the poems we read in conversation with their historio-political contexts, 4) using different literary theoretical lenses to ask new questions of our texts, and 5) articulating [explaining/stating] your interpretations: in class, on tests, and for written assignments.