Poetry Anthology

I handed in a Poetry Anthology assignment on January 12, 2004.

I was looking for materials for Hump Day which, in this blog, is short for a walk down memory lane (just a gentle reminder).

My Poetry Anthology contains only poems written by me so I am pretty sure I did not complete an anthology.  My poems in this "Anthology" are unintentionally funny so I am pretty sure they have never graced the wall of awesomeness. 

I have not decided which of my lovely poems to share with you on January 12, 2017 yet; however, I will describe in detail the assignment and the work I handed in almost a decade and a half ago.

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Before we begin with my amateur description which may turn into an amateur analysis of this assignment, please note the following:

1. I am not writing from memory, I am only making deductions based on the evaluated work.
2. The student, me, may have misinterpreted the instructions and rubric.
3. Special considerations may have been given to the ESL student, me.
4. The teacher may have misinterpreted the instructions and rubric.
5. The word "anthology" may have been incorrectly used in the one (1) page assignment handout setting out the instructions as well as the rubric for evaluation.

Description of the Assignment

I am so confused by the evaluation that I cannot describe the assignment.  I have already described the one (1) page assignment instructions/rubric handout.  The image to this blog post is the one (1) page handout including the evaluation in its true glory!

Description of the Evaluated Work

The evaluated work is contained in a red duotang with the name of the student black penned on the cover of the duotang.  

The duotang bound six (6) letter size (8.5" x 11") paper, only one side of each paper is printed, written and/or coloured on.  Only the fifth and sixth page of the duotang are written on in pencil, most likely by the teacher.  With the exemption of the final page of the duotang, every single page contains the same page border.

The first page of the duotang appears to be the cover page of the completed assignment submitted by the student.  In addition to the page border, the following three (3) things are printed on this page: (i) the title of the assignment, Poetry Anthology, which is underlined; (ii) the due date, January 12, 2004; and (iii) the name of the student, my name, which is preceded by the word By and the colon (:) symbol.

The second page appears to be the theme page.  The word LOVE is printed and partially covered by one of the three (3) cut-out magazine images glued to this second page.

The third and fourth pages appear to be the poems compiled for the assignment, possibly all originally written by the student.  There are six (6) poems printed in some form of pattern, very close to a consistent format - but not quite, as follows: (i) the category of each poem is underlined and printed in the left-hand corner; (ii) the title of each poem is italicized, centered, mostly in the same font size and sometimes bold; (iii) the alignment of each poem follows the format of the type of poem and appears mostly to be in the centre of each section.  In addition to the printing, each poem is accompanied by two (2) dimensional artwork, possibly all originally hand-sketched and coloured by the student with pencil, crayon and/or pencil crayon.

The second last page of the duotang appears to be three (3) additional poems compiled for the assignment, most likely all originally written by the student.  The appearance of this page follows the same format as the preceding two pages with one small exception, there is a stand-alone underlined bold incomplete sentence, as follows: Other Poems I've tried.  This incomplete sentence is most likely the title of the final page of the student's assignment.

The sixth and final page of the duotang appears to be the printed instruction together with the printed rubric of evaluation provided to the student at the beginning of the assignment.  It would appear that the student has written in pen and pencil on the instruction portion of this page; while the teacher completed the evaluation rubric in pencil and cursively wrote her comments on the evaluation portion only.  The same cursive writing also appeared in the last poem of the second last page of the duotang, possibly because the  Originality of writing portion of the evaluation rubric only provided evaluation for up to six (6) poems and not nine (9) and the last poem provided was clearly mechanically incorrect.

I have purchased Volume I of Canadian Literature Anthology from the thrift store recently, I will finish reading that first before I write another amateur blog post on the "Anthology" topic.  At least now I think I know the meaning of the word "Anthology".