The student will be able to:

1. Identify a range of poetic terminology, elements, and techniques in published and student writing
2. Analyze published poetry from multiple cultural voices and in varied forms
3. Apply discussions, analysis, and critical feedback techniques to original work
4. Reflect on student and instructor feedback and make revisions
5. Write critical analyses of published and student work
6. Craft a portfolio of original work that illustrates knowledge and skills obtained throughout the quarter

1. Understand a range of poetic terminology, elements, and techniques, such as:
   1. Types of rhyme and figurative language
   2. Sensory language, imagery
   3. Rhythm of lines, enjambment, meter, repetition, and attention to performance of poetry
   4. Assonance, consonance, and use of internal rhyme to convey tone or emotion
2. Analyze published poetry from diverse voices
   1. Poetry connected to various traditions and/or communities, such as:
      1. Harlem Renaissance
      2. Nuyorican Cafe
      3. Asian American poets
      4. Pacific Island poets
      5. The Beat movement
      6. Native American Renaissance and contemporary indigenous poets
      7. African American poets
      8. Latinx poets
      9. Poetry from prison and internment camps
      10. Poetry from social movements (e.g., labor movements, LGBTQIA+)
3. Analyze published poetry reflecting different genres and forms
   1. Contextualize poems within literary histories
   2. Compare poems demonstrating a variety of poetic genres or innovations
      1. Examples of poetic genres, such as:
         1. Lyric
         2. Epic
         3. Narrative
         4. Satirical
         5. Flash
   3. Compare poems demonstrating various poetic forms and innovations
      1. Examples of poetic forms, such as:
         1. Ballad
         2. Dramatic monologue
         3. Elegy
         4. Free verse
         5. Ode
         6. Sestina
         7. Tanka
         8. Villanelle
         9. Sonnet
         10. Prose
4. Develop critical analyses of published and student work
5. Craft a portfolio of original work
   1. Reflect critically on the relations between original works and published poems
   2. Reflect critically on creative choices with poetic elements and techniques
6. Practice revision strategies to develop voice, including:
   1. Using selective and relevant feedback
   2. Editing and self-editing skills
   3. Understanding of audience
   4. Awareness of process
   5. Working with the inner critic
7. Critique student poetry in workshop setting
   1. Models for focused, equitable, and supportive feedback
   2. Analysis of peer writing
   3. Focused, equitable, and supportive feedback
   4. Mutual sense of purpose
   5. Understanding of audience

Not applicable.

Analysis of a poet and their poetry, techniques, forms, and processes
Critical comparison of poems that demonstrate different techniques, forms, and processes
In-class and out of class creative writing exercises
8-10 original poems written and/or performed
Participation in workshop discussion and feedback
Production of written critiques of student work
Revision of original work
Portfolio review

Lecture presentations and classroom discussion on the craft of poetry
Cooperative learning exercises, oral presentations
Workshop student poetry assignments as a group

Brown, Jericho. Tradition. 2019.

Limon, Ada. Bright Dead Things. 2015.

Perez Santos, Craig. from unincorporated territory [åmot]. 2023.

Salerno, Christopher. How to Write Poetry: A Guided Journal with Prompts. 2020.

Chang, Victoria. With My Back to the World. 2024.

Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom. 2021.

McKay, Claude. Harlem Shadows: Poems. 2022.

Although one or more of these texts is older than the suggested "5 years or newer" standard, it remains a seminal text in this area of study.

1. Read a text of poetry, which includes instruction on craft.
2. Oral or written analysis of published poetry.
3. Composition of original poetry.