Poetry Centers and Seminar Reflection

Starter 6

Based on what you’ve read and experienced so far…

1. What kind of poetry or aspects of poetry do you like the most?  Why?
2. What types of poetry do you dislike, or find it hard to connect to?  Why?

Poetry Center Guidelines

1. Follow directions
2. Work with your group members, support each other
3. Participate actively
4. Take intellectual risks
5. Take as long as you need: be mindful and thorough
6. Must do at least 5
7. Move to table with poem (don’t move poem to table)

Links to Music for Centers:

Strange Fruit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-OytmtYoOI

Choose the best 3 centers you did, staple them, and turn them in to Lori.

HOMEWORK:  Dulce Seminar Reflection

See your handout for details!  This will be DUE on Monday, 3/17.  This gives you the entire week and two weekends to get it done!  I suggest not waiting too long, or it will be harder.

Seminar Questions:

1. What is the tone of this poem, and how does the author achieve it?
2. How would the meaning or impact of this poem be different if the author just told you about these experiences in a straightforward way?
3. What is this poem trying to communicate...intellectually?  Emotionally?  Sensory?
4. Is it ever sweet and right to fight and die for your country? 
5. During a time of war, should citizens of a country at war be shown the horrors that soldiers experience, or should they be sheltered from this?
6. What role does poetry play in our social dialogue about war?
7. Can poetry make you see war in a different way?