Poem Draft Lesson

Starter 11

1. What does she do with the text to emphasize different parts of the poem?  Give at least two specific examples, and talk about the effect the text animation has on the reader in that instance.
2. What was the most powerful part of the poem, and why?
3. What poetic technique did she use that you might want to use in your poem?

Content Inspiration List

1. Look at list on board, choose top 2 from that list

Expanding Content

1. Read a piece from the blue reader that we haven't read in class
2. Write a poem inspired by that reading
3. At the bottom of that poem, write the main message of the reading, the most interesting thing you learned, and what you took from that reading for your poem

Writing Time

1. Time to work on recitation poem analysis
2. Get feedback from Lori if you finish a draft
3. If you finish, work on memorizing your poem

Homework

1. Finish draft of poem, and explanation of content inspiration.  TYPE AND PRINT!   
2. DUE: Friday, 4/1/11, start of class.

SLC Critiques and Poem Analysis

SLC Critiques

1. Gather all evidence, set up a computer at each table
2. Practice your SLC for a group, receive feedback on your strengths and areas for improvements
3. Repeat until everyone in your group has done a full practice

Starter 10

1. Go to one of the following pages with illuminated text: The Tyger, or Rosetti's Sonnet
2. What is the message or perspective of this poem?
3. What connections do you see between the artwork and the text?
4. How does the art affect you as a reader?

Poetry Analysis

Time to work on the written analysis of your recitation poem.  Remember, this analysis should be 3 paragraphs, typed, and should QUOTE the poem to back up what you are saying.  In your analysis, you should answer the following questions:

1. What is this poem trying to communicate?  In other words, what is the unique perspective this poet is offering? (1 paragraph)
2. How does the poet develop/change the message throughout the poem?  (2 paragraphs)  (HINT: In this section you will likely want to spend time talking about specific techniques the poet uses, and what makes their style unique.)

NO HOMEWORK!

Poetry and Perspective

Starter 9

1. Trade peace poems with someone
2. If we were having a seminar on the poem in front of you...
1. List 3 good discussion questions for that poem
2. 1 point you would want to make about the poem in seminar
3. 2 specific suggestions for revision
4. Strongest line, and why

Content and Form

1. Review content inspiration and form inspiration guidelines

Poetry and Perspective

1. What is the perspective in "Dulce et Decorum Est?"
2. "Duh" Perspective Statements:
1. War is bad
2. Peace is good
3. Violence hurts people
4. Peace is hard/impossible to create
3. Transform each of these general ideas into a unique and interesting perspective.  1-2 sentences each.  You can use symbols, imagery, etc.
4. Write 3 possible perspective statements for your own poem

SLC Prep: Areas for Improvement and Goals

1. Choose one area of improvement for Humanities (could be a skill or a behavior)
2. Write a SMART goal for that skill or behavior
3. What Habit or Survival Skill will best help you achieve that goal, and why?

Notecard Format

1. Notecard 2: Area of Improvement
• Bullet 1: Why is this an issue for you?
• Bullet 2: What makes this difficult for you?
• Bullet 3: What have you tried in the past to improve this?
2. Notecard 3: Habit/Survival Skill (at top of card)
• S (what you will do, and how you will do it)
• M (how you will measure your success)
• A (why you think this is attainable)
• R (how will this help you, why it is relevant)
• T (what is your timeline for achieving this goal)

HOMEWORK: Finish ALL notecards for ALL classes (math, bio, humanities, spanish).  Bring completed notecards and evidence to Humanities tomorrow (Wednesday).

SLC Prep and Peace Poetry

Starter 8

1. List all the academic skills you can be good at in Humanities.  You need to have at least 3 per category, and be as specific as possible.  Categories: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Thinking.
2. List at least 5 other behaviors (NOT skills) that can help you succeed in Humanities.
3. Circle your greatest strength in each, and list at least one piece of evidence that shows that strength.

SLC Strengths

1. Each person sits out for 2 minutes
2. Table come up with their greatest strength in this class, and evidence for that strength
3. Share with the person
4. Repeat

SLC Notecard #1

1. Choose a strength in each category (skills and behaviors)
2. Make a Humanities Strengths notecard in TEA outline format (skills on front, strengths on back)
• T = The academic skill/behavior I am best at is...
• E = Specific assignment, project, or experience that shows that skill
• A - This evidence shows...
• Bullet point 1
• Bullet point 2
• Bullet point 3

Peace Organizations

1. Describe your organization, share the 3 most important/interesting facts about it
2. After everyone has shared, decide as a group:
1. Which organization is most inspiring, and why?
2. Which organization is most effective, and why?
3. Which organization do you have the most questions about, and what are 3 of those questions?
3. Show Lori

Peace Poem

1. Write a poem inspired by one of the organizations you learned about today
2. Poem should include a noticeable turn (at least one)
3. Goal = to make the turn as dramatic as possible

HWK: 

1. Finish, type, and print Peace Poem.  DUE: Tuesday, 3/29, start of class
2. SEMINAR MAKE UP: Do ONLY if you were absent for Friday's seminar, or if you want to raise your seminar grade.  DUE: Friday, 4/1
• Answer two of the following questions, in a typed, 2 page essay.  Make sure to use evidence from the text of the poem, and if you were in the seminar, refer to points made during the seminar:
  1. Is it ever sweet and right to die for your country?
  1. Does the answer to that question change depending on circumstances (drafted vs. enlisted, long and painful death vs. quick death, cause of war, etc.)?  Explain.
  2. What is the tone of this poem and how does the author create it?
  3. How does this poem change your perspective on the propaganda posters you designed?
  4. Is poetry important in our social dialogue about war?  Why/why not?  What does it add to the discussion that other forms of communication do not?

Dulce Seminar and Peace Research

Starter 7

1. Trade found poems.  Write their name and the title of their poem.
2. Message/perspective?
3. List poetic devices you see.  How doe they affect the meaning or reading of the poem?
4. What's the most powerful part of the poem?  Why?

Dulce et Decorum Est Seminar

Peace Research

Research on an organization working for peace.  Choose any organization from this website, then answer the following questions in writing.  All answers MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

1. Summarize the mission of the organization.  What do they do? What are their goals? What techniques or strategies do they use to try and bring about peace?
2. Where does this organization operate?  Are they worldwide, or focused on specific regions?
3. What type of violence is this organization addressing? (Direct, structural, physical, psychological, manifest, latent...)  It could be one or a combination.  Explain your answer.
4. Why is this work important?
5. How effective do you think this organization is in bringing about peace?  Why?
6. Make a personal connection to the work this organization is doing, OR talk about one thing that really struck you about this organization.

Poem Recitation

Sign up for a day to recite your memorized poem.  Recitations will start next Thursday.

Homework: Dulce Seminar Reflection       (DUE: Monday, Start of Class)

This seminar reflection should be in well-organized and proofread paragraphs, and must be TYPED.  QUOTE THE POEM as evidence in answers to questions 2 and 3.

1. React to one of your classmate's comments from the seminar. 
2. What have you learned from this seminar process about reading and interpreting poetry?  Use specific examples to back up your ideas.
3. Is it ever sweet and right to die for your country?  Develop and support your argument in a paragraph.

Dulce Coaching, Found Poems

Poem of the Day: Gift
    You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
   (for I know silence)
you would say
       This is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me

-Leonard Cohen

Starter 6: What you find most interesting about the themes of peace, war, or violence (could be physical, psychological, direct, structural, etc...)?  What do you have to say about one of those themes?  Which theme are you most interested in exploring for your poem?  Why?

Dulce et Decorum Est Coaching

1. Fluid Reading: Make sure each group member is clear on pronunciation of words.  Each person reads poem out loud to group.
2. Close Reading: Go line by line until every group member can summarize every line of the poem.  Remember to ask questions, address all issues from D/C journals.
3. Coaching Handout: Follow instructions on coaching handout.

Poem Memorizations: Time to find poem you want to memorize, and consult with Lori.

Found Poetry: Time to work on found poem, according to directions on handout.

Homework (DUE: Friday, Start of class, TYPED)

Finish found poem, type it.  Make sure that it follow the directions on the handout!

Poetry Centers

Starter 5: Bystanding: The Beginning of an American Lifetime
Look at the text of the poem that is linked above.  Divide into 8 sections (every time there is a year listed, that is a new section).  Then write:

1. What is the message/perspective for each section?
2. What is the overall message/perspective of the entire poem?
3. What is the most powerful part, and why?

Watch the video of the artist performing her poem, then answer: How does this video change or develop the message of your poem, or change your perception of what the most powerful part of the poem is?

Poetry Centers

Working through 5-7 poetry centers with groups.  See Lori for these poems and activities.

Poem Memorization Assignment

Review of handout and assignment (see Lori for handout).  Need to have a poem chosen for memorization by the end of class on Friday.

Homework: "Dulce et Decorum Est" Difficulty/Curiosity Journal.  DUE: Thursday, start of class.

Identify a specific phrase or line in “Dulce” that you find difficult, or are curious about, and complete the following steps.  MUST BE TYPED!

1. Begin your journal by quoting the phrase or line from the poem that makes you curious or that you find difficult. 
2.  (1 Paragraph) Describe, as specifically as possible, your difficulty/curiosity with that section.  Why do you find it difficult, or what makes you curious about it?
3.  (1 Paragraph) Look back at your difficulty or curiosity and describe how you might work through your difficulty, or find out more about something you are curious about.  Put your idea into action, and describe the results.  What new understanding do you have now about the poem?

Dulce et decorum est and Difficulty

Poem of the Day: For the Anniversary of my Death

Starter 4: There is a War Going On For Your Mind

1. What is the message/perspective?
2. What's your favorite part, and why?
3. What poetic devices are used here?
4. How does the kinetic text enhance the meaning of this poem?  What does it add to you experience?

Share Poems

1. Share poems from homework.
2. Take notes on the back of you poem, listing devices they used, and what the strongest part of each poem was.
3. What's the strongest part of your poem, and why?
4. If you could make one change to your poem, what would it be, and why?

Too Dumb for Complex Texts?

1. Read aloud together
2. Discuss: What do you usually do when you run into a complex text that is really difficult?  What are some strategies for overcoming those difficulties?

Dulce et Decorum Est

1. Look only at title and translation, and predict what the poem will be about
2. Read two lines of the poem, and refine your prediction

Homework: DUE Thursday, start of class, TYPED.

1. Read Dulce et Decorum Est
2. Do Difficulty/Curiosity Journal: 
3. Begin your journal by quoting the phrase or line from the poem that makes you curious or that you find difficult. 
4.  (1 Paragraph) Describe, as specifically as possible, your difficulty/curiosity with that section.  Why do you find it difficult, or what makes you curious about it?  BE VERY SPECIFIC!
5.  (1 Paragraph) Look back at your difficulty or curiosity and describe how you might work through your difficulty, or find out more about something you are curious about.  Put your idea into action, and describe the results.  What new understanding do you have now about the poem?

Poetry Devices and Analysis

Poem of the Day: I ask them to take a poem

Starter 3 (first poem only- "Direct Orders"): What was your favorite line?  Why?  What experience or perspective does this poem give you that changes how you see or feel?

Poetry Notes: The Walrus and the Carpenter

1. Read out loud
2. Annotate the poem to mark what makes it unique (in blue reader)
3. What experience does this poem give you?
4. In poetry notes: Humor, Irony, Personification, Symbolism, Repetition

Poetry Notes: Shakespeare Sonnet 116

1. Annotate and paraphrase with Lori (in blue reader)
2. Poetry Notes: Sonnet form, Couplet, Turn, Enjambment

Poetry Analysis

1. Choose 2 of the remaining poems in your blue reader
2. Read poem out loud until you have a fluid reading
3. For each poem:
• Label the poetic devices used (from list or notes) on the poem
• What experience does this poem give you that changes your perceptions?  (1 paragraph, be specific!)
• What is the most powerful line, or set of lines?  What makes it/them powerful?
• For each poem choose 1 device (from list or notes), define it in your own words, and talk about how that device affects your experience of the poem.

Homework: DUE Tuesday, 3/22/11

1. Choose 3 poetic devices from your notes or the handout
2. Write a poem on a topic of your choice that uses those three devices