Critique Sign Ups and Devices Quiz

Recitations


Devices Quiz
If you were absent, you will need to make this up on TUESDAY, after school.

Starter 20

• What are all the steps you need to go through to make sense of a difficult poem?  List them.
• How confident are you in your ability to analyze a poem you have never seen?  Explain.

Critique Sign Ups

Need two volunteers to be critiqued on Monday.  Everyone else will get critiqued on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Work Time

Process Journal 3 and Poem Revisions.

HOMEWORK

1. Monday Recitations:  Grayson, Hunter, Riley, Stephen, Natalie, Joe, Geoy, and Skyler.  Practice your poem, and make sure you have your 3 paragraph written analysis PRINTED before class.
2. Critique Two Poems:  Read an annotate the poem.  As you go, make notes in your annotations or at the end of the poem:  2 greatest strengths, and 2 things to improve on, and how they could improve.  DUE: Start of class, Monday.
3. Process Journal 3:  Finish and PRINT process journal 3.  See previous posts for prompts.  DUE: Start of class, Monday.

OPTIONAL: Library Writing Contest!

I would encourage you all to enter your poems in the library writing contest.  

It needs to be double spaced, 12 pt. font, and less that 5 pages.  You can simply email it to engstromcr@ci.durango.co.us.  

Make sure to put your NAME, CONTACT INFO (phone and email) , and AGE on the poem you send.  The last day to send these is on Saturday!