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!

Process Journal 3 and Conferences

Recitations


Starter 19
No starter today in order to get more conferences.

Work Time
Poem Draft 3
Process Journal 3
Conferences
Study for Devices Quiz

Process Journal 3

• What has been the most difficult thing about this process for you so far?  How did you (or how are you, if the difficulty is ongoing) work through this difficulty?

• Choose the three most important ideas or objects in your poem (example: war, peace, dead soldiers, bombs, etc.).  Describe them using a simile AND a metaphor.  You cannot use things that you’ve already used a simile or metaphor to describe!  Be creative…T.S. Eliot once described the evening in a simile that compared the evening to “a patient etherized upon a table.”

• What is your ne next step in the process?   Why?  (Brainstorming, peer critique, research, writing, including poetic devices, working on the specific form, starting over, working with a teacher or tutor, learning after-effects, illustrating your poem…other?)
  
  
  HOMEWORK
  Study for Devices Quiz tomorrow.

Poem Work Time

Starter 18
Freewrite for 1 minute 30 seconds on each of the following.

• Your choice of topic
• Circle one word or idea from #1, freewrite on that
• How do things in a kitchen relate to war?
• How do things in a factory relate to peace?
• How do things on a ski mountain relate to violence?
• How do things in nature relate to war?
• How do things in nature relate to power?

Conference Sign Up

Sign up on the board for a conference with Lori..  Over the next two days, everyone will have a conference.

Work Time

Work on the following:

• Poem Draft 2
• Process Journal 2
• Study for Devices Quiz

HOMEWORK

• Study for Devices Quiz.  Quiz is on Friday.  You will need to be able to define and write an example for each of the poetic devices.  Poetic Devices Handout.
• Poem Draft 2, Process Journal 2.  Finish and PRINT for class tomorrow.  See yesterday's post for details on Process Journal 2.

Peace Songs and Work Time

Starter 17:
Starter about a peace poem.  If you were absent, see Cayton for what you need to make this one up!

Peace Poems
Cayton teaches her final internship lesson!  Yay!  No need to make this up if you were absent.

Work Time

• Poem Draft 2
• Process Journal 2

HOMEWORK

• Study for Devices and Perspective Quiz.  Be able to define and write examples of all the devices on your handout.  QUIZ FRIDAY!  Poetic Devices Handout linked here!
• Poem Recitation and Analysis.  For Wednesday: Riley, Elijah, Stephen, Elliot, Aitor, John, Dusty, Abe, Jess, Ryan.

Form Inspiration and Critiques

Poem Recitations


Starter 16: Lost Generation

1. How does the form of this poem impact the message?  Explain.

2. What unique thing could you do to the form of your poem to emphasize your perspective?

List of Forms

For your poem, you will need to have a specific form inspiration--a poem you are drawing from stylistically.  The following website has some specific information on particular forms, and examples of poems written in those forms:  Poetry Forms

Poem Draft 1 Critiques

Critiques two poems, receive critiques from two people.

Poem Draft 2

Revise your poem.  SAVE AS A SEPARATE DOCUMENT FROM DRAFT 1.

Process Journal 2

1. Form Inspiration: Find a specific poem that would would like to imitate in some way.  Identify and list all the poetic devices that poem uses, or if it's a specific form, the rules of that form.  Choose 3 that you would like to emulate.  For each of those three:
• Explain WHY you are drawn to that device.  What do you like about how that device is used in your inspiration?
• Explain HOW that device will help you to develop the message and perspective of your poem, either intellectually or emotionally.
2. Revision Challenge: Rewrite a chunk of your poem (at least 5 lines) in a completely different form.  (Examples:  If you are doing spoken word style, try a sonnet,  if your poem is formal, try to write like ee cummings, if it's free verse, try writing with rhyme and meter...)
3. Next Steps:  What is your next step in the process?  Why?

HOMEWORK

• Memorized Poem and Analysis:  See the list for the day these are due!  For Tuesday, we have: Sam, Josh G, Laurin, India, Robin, Mandi, Geoy, Cameron, Jessie, Ryan, and Brittney.

• Poem Draft 2 and Process Journal 2.  See above for instructions.  DUE: Start of class, Wednesday, PRINTED.

• Study for Devices and Perspectives Quiz: FRIDAY.  For this quiz, you will need to be able to define and write examples for poetic devices, and to explain the messages for 3 poems we've looked at in class.