Draft 1 of Exhibition Poem

Starter 12: Do You Get It?  D'Vaughn McCrae

1. What do you notice about her presentation style/method?
2. What is the perspective of this poem?
3. What part of this poem stands out to you the most?

Content Poems

1. Trade poems with a partner
2. Read their poem, and write your name on the back of it.
3. What is the perspective of this poem?
4. What are the strongest lines of this poem, and why?  In other words, if you were going to throw out everything but 2-3 lines, which would you keep?
5. What are two specific things they could do to make this poem even stronger?
6. If you were going to do a D/C journal about this poem, what lines would you choose, and why?

Exhibition Poem

1. Write first draft of exhibition poem.
2. Keep EVERYTHING you write.  You never know when you will want it for a later version!
3. I suggest creating a poetry folder, and saving all your drafts separately.  In other words, when you go in to revise your poem, copy and paste it into a new document, so you have a record of your changes.

Poetry Process Journal 1

1. What do you think you are going to use as your content inspiration?  What about this inspires you? (images, words, symbols, phrases...)  What do you want to say about this?
2. Take two lines from your current draft and write them here.  Now rewrite those two lines so that they communicate the same message, but don’t use any of the same words.
3. What is your 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?)