Devices Quiz and DUE DATES

DUE DATES

All due dates are for the START of class.

1. 2 poems critiqued- Weds, 4/10, Thurs 4/11, Mon 4/15, Tues 4/16
2. Process Journal 3- Thurs 4/11
3. Process Journals 4 and 5- Weds 4/17
4. Analysis Quiz- Thurs 4/18

Devices Quiz

When students are done, can independently move to the Starter and Process Journal.

Starter 18

1. What is your favorite concept or part of your poem right now?
2. What problems are you running into while writing your poem?  Be as specific as possible!
3. Talk to a person about their problems, brainstorm 3 possible solutions for their problem, and list them here.  Share solutions with them.

Whole Class Critique Sign Ups

Whole class critiques of 2 poems tomorrow to learn the protocol.  I need the following number of people to sign up to be critiqued on each of the following days:

1. 2 people for Wednesday
2. 6 for Thursday
3. 6 for Monday
4. 6 for Tuesday

Your poem will be due the day before your critique, to give me time to copy it for other students.

Homework will be to critique the poems (you will have about 2 to critique each night)

Process Journal 3

Process:  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 your difficulty?

Revision Challenge: 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.”

EXAMPLE: Soldiers

Simile: The soldiers were like dogs, straining against their leashes to enter the fight.

Metaphor: The soldiers were ants, marching without purpose towards their death.

Next Steps:  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?)

HOMEWORK

Critique Poems.  On each poem, you should should note the following.  You can do this on the text of the poem itself, or in comments at the end of the poem.

1. What is memorable, piercing or true about this writing?  At least two specific things.
2. What could the author do to make this piece even better?  Give at least two specific suggestions.