Syllabus - Exploring Poetry.docx
Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Course:
Exploring Poetry
Code:
IG 315
Chs:
2 Chs
Semester:
3
Prerequisite:
Students taking this course are required to have satisfactorily
completed Foundation of Literature course with a minimun
grade of C.
Lecturer:
Eki Qushay Akhwan
Objectives
Upon completing the course, students are expected to be able to understand the
different elements that build a poem, explore its subject matter with sufficient
depth, appreciate poetry as a literary genre, and become an informed reader
who can express their opinions about a poem with the level of sophistication that
is expected of a language-major student.
Course Description
The course guides the students to explore, discuss, and appreciate the
complexity of poems as a literary genre and develops their ability to analyse and
interpret poetry. It is geared towards appreciating poetry through understanding
the elements that build it, such as the choice of diction, the use of figurative
language, sounds and rhythms, symbolism and allusions, etc. The understanding
of how these elements work in a poem is expected to equip the students with the
necessary tools to be able to read, interpret, and discuss poems with enough
sophistication that is expected of a language-major student.
Learning Activities
-
-
Exposure, modeling, and exposition: Students are presented with a poem
and are guided with questions and exposition to recognize the element(s)
that the instructor wants them to focus on and how it/they work in the
text.
Group work guided practice: Students are given a different poem to
discuss in groups and find how a particular element or set of elements
work in the text.
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 1
-
-
-
Whole class guided practice: Different groups of students discuss and
contribute their understanding of the text and how a particular element or
set of elements work in the said text that they have discussed in groups.
Independent practice: Students are given an assignment to read a poem
and write a short response paper based on their reading and
understanding of the text.
To support all the above activities, students are required to independently
read the listed chapters of the text books and other relevant sources.
Media
-
Laptop, LCD Projector, Whiteboard
Evaluation and Grading
Grading elements:
-
Assignment Journal
Response papers (2 x 15%)
Midterm test
Final test
TOTAL
10%
30%
30%
30%
____________ +
100%
Grading scale:
A
86 - 100
B
71 - 85
C
56 - 70
D
41 - 55
E
< - 40
Weekly Syllabus
Sessi
on
1
Topics
2
The words and diction of poetry
Introduction to the course and
syllabus; an overview of poetry.
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Sources
1. Syllabus and
course outline
handout
2. Poems: An
Indonesian poem
of choice (to be
informed later),
Hope (Lisel
Mueller)
3. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 13, pp.
609 – 619)
1. Poems: Of Being
(Denise Levertov),
Hello, Hello Henry
(Maxine Kumin)
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
Page 2
3
Character and setting
1.
2.
4
Imagery
1.
2.
5
Figures of Speech
1.
2.
6
Tone and The Creation of Attitude in
Poetry
1.
2.
7
8
9
(2004, ch. 14, pp.
635 – 642)
Poems: London
(William Blake)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 15, pp.
664 – 670)
Poems: Sonnet
130: My Mistress’
Eyes Are Nothing
Like the Sun
(William
Shakespeare), If
You Love for The
Sake of Beauty
(Friedrick Ruckert)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 16, pp.
695 – 700)
Poems: Sonnet
18: Shall I
Compare Thee to
A Summer’s Day?
(William
Shakespeare),
Remember (Joy
Harjo)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 17, pp.
725 – 732)
Poems: Theme for
English B
(Langston
Hughes), My
Papa’s Waltz
(Theodore
Roethke)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 18, pp.
758 – 766)
Selected poems
Handout
Consolidation and Response Paper
Modeling
MID TERM TEST
1.
2.
Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and
Rhyme in Poetry
1. Poems: To Hear
An Oriole Sing
(Emily Dickinson),
We Real Cool
(Gwendolyn
Brooks)
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 3
10
Symbolism and Allusion
11
Brief Introduction to Westn Myths:
Icarus, Phoenix, Oedipus, Pan
Myths: System of Symbolic Allusion
in Poetry
12
13
Ideas and Theme in Poetry
14
Shape of The Poem
15
16
Consolidation and Review
FINAL TEST
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 19, pp.
794 – 809)
1. Poems: No
Coward Soul Is
Mine (Emily
Bronte)
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 21, pp.
885 – 892)
1. Online Sources
1. Poems: Selected
poems for
different Western
myths
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 22, pp.
921 – 953)
1. Poems: Do You
Think ... (Robert
Creely), True Love
(Judith Viorst)
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 23, pp.
955 – 984)
1. Selected poems
to illustrate
different
shapes/forms of
poetry
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 20, pp.
845 – 856)
References
Main Text Book
Robert, Edgard P. and Henry Jacobs (Eds.). Reading and Writing about
Poetry. (New York: Pierson Prentice Hall, 2004)
Supplementary Readings
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry (3rd
Edtiton) (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960)
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 4
Elizabeth, Mary. Painless Poetry. (New York: Barron’s Educational Series,
Inc., 2001)
Farrell, Edmund James et al (Eds.). Exploring Life through Literature.
(Glenview, Illinois: Foresman and Company, 1973)
Pradopo, Rahmat Joko. Pengkajian Puisi. (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada
University Press, 1987)
Waluyo, Herman J. Teori dan Apresiasi Puisi. (Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka
Utama, 2002)
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 5
COURSE OUTLINE
SESSI
ONS
TOPICS
SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVES
1
Introducti
on to the
course
and
syllabus;
an
overview
of poetry
At the end of the
session, students
are expected to
know the coverage
of the course, have
the general idea of
and can explain
what poetry is
2
The
words
and
diction of
poetry
LEARNING
ACTIVITIES
EVALUATION
SOURCES
3
Characte
r and
Setting
4
Imagery
5
Tone and
The
Creation
of
Attitude
in Poetry
6
7
Figures of
Speech
Consolida
tion and
Response
Paper
Students are
expected to be able
to identify different
kinds of diction
used in poetry and
discuss how they
affect poems.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss how
characters and
setting are
embedded in a
poem and how they
affect the poem’s
message.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss how
different kinds of
imegery produce
different effect s in
poetry.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify elements
that convey poetic
tones and discuss
how a tone is
created in a poem
and the effect it has
on the poem’s
message.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify different
kinds of figures of
speech in poetry
and discuss how
they expand
meanings and affect
the poem.
Students are
expected to be able
to consolidate the
knowledge they
-
Lecturing
Discussion
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and
answers
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-
Questions
and
answers
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
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and
answers
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t journal
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
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and
answers
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
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and
answers
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and
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t journal
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and
answers
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t journal
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and
answers
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t journal
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and
answers
Assignmen
Syllabus
and course
outline
handout
Poems
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
Page 6
Modeling
8
MID
TERM
TEST
9
Prosody:
Sounds,
Rhythm,
and
Rhymes
in Poetry
10
Symbolis
m and
Allusion
11
Brief
Introducti
on to
Western
Myths
12
Myths:
System
of
Symbolic
Allusion
in Poetry
13
Ideas and
Theme in
Poetry
14
Shapes/F
orms of
Poetry
15
Consolida
tion and
Review
16
FINAL
TEST
have acquired and
discuss a poem
from different
aspects they have
learned thus far;
students are
expected to be able
to write an
academically
acceptable essay
about a poem.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss different
elements of prosody
and how they affect
the poem.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss symbolism
and allusions
embedded in a
poem and how they
affect the poem’s
message.
Students are
expected to have
the basic idea of
prominent Western
myths and idenfity
their features and
discuss their
meanings.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify elements
of myths in a poem
and discuss their
meanings.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify general
ideas and theme of
a poem using the
previous knowledge
they have acquired
in the course.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify shapes or
forms of poetry and
discuss their
characteristics.
Students are
expected to be able
to consolidate the
knowledge they
have acquired and
discuss a poem
from different
aspects they have
learned thus far.
and
answers
t journal
-
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
-
-
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
-
-
Independe
nt
reading/libr
ary and
online
research
Lecturing
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
-
-
-
-
-
-
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
-
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
-
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
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Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
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-
-
(2004)
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Encycloped
ia
Online
resources
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
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Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 8
Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Seni
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Course:
Exploring Poetry
Code:
IG 315
Chs:
2 Chs
Semester:
3
Prerequisite:
Students taking this course are required to have satisfactorily
completed Foundation of Literature course with a minimun
grade of C.
Lecturer:
Eki Qushay Akhwan
Objectives
Upon completing the course, students are expected to be able to understand the
different elements that build a poem, explore its subject matter with sufficient
depth, appreciate poetry as a literary genre, and become an informed reader
who can express their opinions about a poem with the level of sophistication that
is expected of a language-major student.
Course Description
The course guides the students to explore, discuss, and appreciate the
complexity of poems as a literary genre and develops their ability to analyse and
interpret poetry. It is geared towards appreciating poetry through understanding
the elements that build it, such as the choice of diction, the use of figurative
language, sounds and rhythms, symbolism and allusions, etc. The understanding
of how these elements work in a poem is expected to equip the students with the
necessary tools to be able to read, interpret, and discuss poems with enough
sophistication that is expected of a language-major student.
Learning Activities
-
-
Exposure, modeling, and exposition: Students are presented with a poem
and are guided with questions and exposition to recognize the element(s)
that the instructor wants them to focus on and how it/they work in the
text.
Group work guided practice: Students are given a different poem to
discuss in groups and find how a particular element or set of elements
work in the text.
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 1
-
-
-
Whole class guided practice: Different groups of students discuss and
contribute their understanding of the text and how a particular element or
set of elements work in the said text that they have discussed in groups.
Independent practice: Students are given an assignment to read a poem
and write a short response paper based on their reading and
understanding of the text.
To support all the above activities, students are required to independently
read the listed chapters of the text books and other relevant sources.
Media
-
Laptop, LCD Projector, Whiteboard
Evaluation and Grading
Grading elements:
-
Assignment Journal
Response papers (2 x 15%)
Midterm test
Final test
TOTAL
10%
30%
30%
30%
____________ +
100%
Grading scale:
A
86 - 100
B
71 - 85
C
56 - 70
D
41 - 55
E
< - 40
Weekly Syllabus
Sessi
on
1
Topics
2
The words and diction of poetry
Introduction to the course and
syllabus; an overview of poetry.
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Sources
1. Syllabus and
course outline
handout
2. Poems: An
Indonesian poem
of choice (to be
informed later),
Hope (Lisel
Mueller)
3. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 13, pp.
609 – 619)
1. Poems: Of Being
(Denise Levertov),
Hello, Hello Henry
(Maxine Kumin)
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
Page 2
3
Character and setting
1.
2.
4
Imagery
1.
2.
5
Figures of Speech
1.
2.
6
Tone and The Creation of Attitude in
Poetry
1.
2.
7
8
9
(2004, ch. 14, pp.
635 – 642)
Poems: London
(William Blake)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 15, pp.
664 – 670)
Poems: Sonnet
130: My Mistress’
Eyes Are Nothing
Like the Sun
(William
Shakespeare), If
You Love for The
Sake of Beauty
(Friedrick Ruckert)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 16, pp.
695 – 700)
Poems: Sonnet
18: Shall I
Compare Thee to
A Summer’s Day?
(William
Shakespeare),
Remember (Joy
Harjo)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 17, pp.
725 – 732)
Poems: Theme for
English B
(Langston
Hughes), My
Papa’s Waltz
(Theodore
Roethke)
Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 18, pp.
758 – 766)
Selected poems
Handout
Consolidation and Response Paper
Modeling
MID TERM TEST
1.
2.
Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and
Rhyme in Poetry
1. Poems: To Hear
An Oriole Sing
(Emily Dickinson),
We Real Cool
(Gwendolyn
Brooks)
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 3
10
Symbolism and Allusion
11
Brief Introduction to Westn Myths:
Icarus, Phoenix, Oedipus, Pan
Myths: System of Symbolic Allusion
in Poetry
12
13
Ideas and Theme in Poetry
14
Shape of The Poem
15
16
Consolidation and Review
FINAL TEST
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 19, pp.
794 – 809)
1. Poems: No
Coward Soul Is
Mine (Emily
Bronte)
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 21, pp.
885 – 892)
1. Online Sources
1. Poems: Selected
poems for
different Western
myths
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 22, pp.
921 – 953)
1. Poems: Do You
Think ... (Robert
Creely), True Love
(Judith Viorst)
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 23, pp.
955 – 984)
1. Selected poems
to illustrate
different
shapes/forms of
poetry
2. Robert, Edgard P.
and Henry Jacobs
(2004, ch. 20, pp.
845 – 856)
References
Main Text Book
Robert, Edgard P. and Henry Jacobs (Eds.). Reading and Writing about
Poetry. (New York: Pierson Prentice Hall, 2004)
Supplementary Readings
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry (3rd
Edtiton) (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960)
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 4
Elizabeth, Mary. Painless Poetry. (New York: Barron’s Educational Series,
Inc., 2001)
Farrell, Edmund James et al (Eds.). Exploring Life through Literature.
(Glenview, Illinois: Foresman and Company, 1973)
Pradopo, Rahmat Joko. Pengkajian Puisi. (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada
University Press, 1987)
Waluyo, Herman J. Teori dan Apresiasi Puisi. (Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka
Utama, 2002)
Eki Qushay Akhwan/Exploring Poetry/Syllabus
Page 5
COURSE OUTLINE
SESSI
ONS
TOPICS
SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVES
1
Introducti
on to the
course
and
syllabus;
an
overview
of poetry
At the end of the
session, students
are expected to
know the coverage
of the course, have
the general idea of
and can explain
what poetry is
2
The
words
and
diction of
poetry
LEARNING
ACTIVITIES
EVALUATION
SOURCES
3
Characte
r and
Setting
4
Imagery
5
Tone and
The
Creation
of
Attitude
in Poetry
6
7
Figures of
Speech
Consolida
tion and
Response
Paper
Students are
expected to be able
to identify different
kinds of diction
used in poetry and
discuss how they
affect poems.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss how
characters and
setting are
embedded in a
poem and how they
affect the poem’s
message.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss how
different kinds of
imegery produce
different effect s in
poetry.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify elements
that convey poetic
tones and discuss
how a tone is
created in a poem
and the effect it has
on the poem’s
message.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify different
kinds of figures of
speech in poetry
and discuss how
they expand
meanings and affect
the poem.
Students are
expected to be able
to consolidate the
knowledge they
-
Lecturing
Discussion
Questions
and
answers
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and
answers
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
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and
answers
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t journal
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Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
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t journal
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t journal
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and
answers
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Syllabus
and course
outline
handout
Poems
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
Page 6
Modeling
8
MID
TERM
TEST
9
Prosody:
Sounds,
Rhythm,
and
Rhymes
in Poetry
10
Symbolis
m and
Allusion
11
Brief
Introducti
on to
Western
Myths
12
Myths:
System
of
Symbolic
Allusion
in Poetry
13
Ideas and
Theme in
Poetry
14
Shapes/F
orms of
Poetry
15
Consolida
tion and
Review
16
FINAL
TEST
have acquired and
discuss a poem
from different
aspects they have
learned thus far;
students are
expected to be able
to write an
academically
acceptable essay
about a poem.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss different
elements of prosody
and how they affect
the poem.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify and
discuss symbolism
and allusions
embedded in a
poem and how they
affect the poem’s
message.
Students are
expected to have
the basic idea of
prominent Western
myths and idenfity
their features and
discuss their
meanings.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify elements
of myths in a poem
and discuss their
meanings.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify general
ideas and theme of
a poem using the
previous knowledge
they have acquired
in the course.
Students are
expected to be able
to identify shapes or
forms of poetry and
discuss their
characteristics.
Students are
expected to be able
to consolidate the
knowledge they
have acquired and
discuss a poem
from different
aspects they have
learned thus far.
and
answers
t journal
-
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
-
-
Lecturing
Modeling
Discussion
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and
answers
-
-
Independe
nt
reading/libr
ary and
online
research
Lecturing
Discussion
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and
answers
Lecturing
Modeling
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and
answers
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t journal
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answers
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t journal
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Encycloped
ia
Online
resources
Questions
and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
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and
answers
Assignmen
t journal
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and
answers
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Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
Robert,
Edgard P.
and Henry
Jacobs
(2004)
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