Okay, so we have made a little change to the course outline.  This week is POETRY!  Let's all say it together.... "Yay!!" The following week and a bit will be our novel study.  We are NOT going to be doing a fifth Shakespeare unit, so I know that you are all going to breathe a sigh of relief.

Having an English degree, I was bombarded with poetry all throughout my university career.  So much so that I came to despise all things poetic.  However, after being out of school and not arguing with professors about the rationale of "such-a-line" or what was truly meant when the poet said --------, I came to appreciate that poetry is all around us today.  Most of the time we simly don't realize it.

It was with this realization, and coming to the conclusion that teaching/learning about poetry needed a re-vamp, that I set out to come up with my own way of teaching poetry with relevency.

So, here we go!!