Devices Quiz and Critique Prep

Devices Quiz

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

Starter 17

What are you thinking about doing with your poem for exhibition?  Talk through some of your ideas for how you would like to present your poem, and any thoughts you’re having about possible ideas and difficulties.

TURN IN STARTERS 13-17

Poems for Critique

For each of the poems, please do the following, either on the text of the poem, or on a separate piece of paper.

• Write your name.
• Read and annotate carefully- react to the poem!
• What is the perspective being expressed here?
• Label at least 2 specific places in the poem that are powerful, and explain why you liked them.
• Label at least 2 specific places the poem could be improved, with specific suggestions for how to improve them.
• Answer the author’s focusing question.

Project Work Time

• Conferences with Lori
• Poem Draft 3
• Process Journal 3
• Critique poems for Monday

Process Journal 3

1. Poem Difficulties:  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. 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

1. Critique Devin's Poem and Katie's Poem for Monday.  See above for specific instructions!  DUE:  Start of class, Monday.
2. Process Journal 3:  EMAIL to Lori before the start of class on Monday.