Critique 2 and Work Time

Recitations:  Raven, Rebekah, Devin, Lia

Whole Class Critique Sign Ups

Whole class critiques of 2 poems Monday to learn the protocol.  Please sign up on the whiteboard for a critique day, then write it in your planner!  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 2-3 to critique each night.  More details on that tomorrow!

Starter 16:

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

Critiques

1. On your own poem, write a focusing question you would like feedback on.
2. Trade with a person who is not at your table, and who has not seen your poem yet.
3. On the poem you received, please write:
• Your name
• What is your favorite part of this poem?  Why?  Star it
• What poetic device are they using most effectively?  Explain how it affects you as a reader.
• What are two specific things they could do to make this poem more powerful?  Think about form, devices, word choice, layout, perspective, cuts, additions…
• Address their focusing question

Project Work Time

1. Conference with Lori (everyone has to conference with me today or Friday)
2. Poem Draft 3
3. Process Journal 3 (see below)
4. Memorization and Written Analysis

Process Journal 3

1. 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?
2. 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.
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?)

HOMEWORK

1. Poem Draft 3:  DUE the day before you are being critiqued.
2. Process Journal 3:  EMAIL to Lori before the start of class Monday.
3. Study for QUIZ on Friday