Focused Critiques

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Announcements:  Permission slips for field trip are DUE!  If you don't have it to me by tomorrow morning, you will not be going downtown with the class.

Focused Critiques

1. In groups of 6 or 7
2. Author offers focusing questions/concerns
3. What's memorable, piercing, or true about this piece of writing?
4. Improvements and suggestions for revision
5. Author reponse: where they go from here

Project Work Time

1. Revise, revise, revise!
2. AfterEffects
3. Process Journal 6 (Due Thursday, start of class)

Process Journal 6: Due Thursday, start of class

1. What have you learned about poetry during this process?  What are your thoughts on reading and writing poetry, and how have they changed in the past few weeks?
2. Revision Challenge: Cut at least 5 lines from your poem.  Talk about which lines you cut, and why.  
3. What are your next steps?  Do you have any concerns about your project at this point?

Homework

1. BRING PERMISSION SLIPS!
2. Critique Poems for class.  Annotate as you read, then note the main strengths and the main revisions.  BE SPECIFIC!  Explain your responses!