Poetry Project: DP and Final Reflection

Elective Survey
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DP AND REFLECTION REQUIREMENTS

• Poem Grading and Reflection:  See this link for instructions for your Growth as a Poet reflection.  This is a MAJOR part of your project grade.  DUE:  Midnight, Sunday 5/10. Share with Lori.

• DP Requirements

• Final Poem
• Growth as a Poet Reflection
• Picture of your project (if it's a visual art piece)
• Video of your project (everyone- live performances will get these after Exhibition!)
• DUE:  Start of Class, Monday 5/18 (when you get back from Osprey Week)

Beautiful job at Exhibition last night- you made me proud!

Poetry Analysis Quiz

Quiz Resources:

1. List of strategies you can use for annotation
2. List of strategies you can use to help you understand the poem
3. Devices List

Take the Quiz!

If you were absent, you will need to come talk to me to schedule a re-take.  This is a long one!

When done...

1. Revise poem
2. Finish and share Process Journals 4 and 5
3. Conference Writing to prepare for conferences with Lori on Thursday and Friday (see below for details)

Project Conferences

I will be holding conferences about your project/poem starting Thursday, and continuing into Friday.  You will need to complete the writing assignment on my DP before you sign up for a conference with me.  When you come to conference with me, bring the following things:

1.      Most recent draft of your poem

2.      Conference Writing

3.      Ideas, sketches, drafts that you have for your project

Conference Writing

1.      What’s the state of your poem?  What are you still working on, how close are you to being done?

2.      What form do you want your project to take?  What do you want to do for Exhibition?

3.      What concerns or questions do you have about your project right now?

4.      List, in order, steps you will need to take over the next week for your project to come together.  Get specific, try to put those steps in the order you will need to complete them.

Critiques Continued!

Recitations!

• Ryleigh
• Reed
• Jake
• Max
• Kaleigh
• Kyla

Group Critiques

Critique poems in your small groups.

Work Time Priorities

1. Process Journals 4 and 5
2. Poem Revisions
3. Study for Analysis Quiz

HOMEWORK

Critique Poems.  Last round!

Critiques and Marisa's Survey!

Starter 17

1. What are all the steps you need to go through to make sense of a difficult poem?  List them here!
2. How confident are you in your ability to read adn write an analysis of an unfamiliar poem?  Rank yourself from 1-4 (1=not confident at all, 4=totally confident), and explain your ranking.

TURN IN STARTERS 15-17

Small Group Critiques

Critique the two poems from last night in your small groups.

Work Time

1. Revise your poem
2. Process Journals 4 and 5

Marisa's Survey

Take this survey for Marisa's senior project!

HOMEWORK

Critique Poems

Whole Class Critique

Starter 16

1. In the upcoming critiques, what questions or issues do you really want people to address in your poem?  (List at least 3)
2. If you had to describe each of the 2 poems you critiqued in 1-2 sentences, how would you describe them?

Announcements

1. Kinetic Text:  Now is the time to get Adobe AfterEffects trial on your computer if you’re interested in this option!

Critiques

1. Whole class in large circle
2. Author offers focusing question and reads poem out loud to the group. (1-4 min)
3. Group Feedback
• What’s memorable, piercing, or true about this piece of writing?  (6-8 min)
• What improvements could be made to this to make it even better?  (6-8 min)
4. Authors respond: what was helpful, what do they need to work on.  (2 min)

Total critique time per person:  15-20 min.

Critique Norms

1. Be prepared
2. Everyone participates and speaks
3. Take intellectual risks—go deep!
4. Stick to the times
5. Be specific and helpful
6. Be open to new ideas; avoid being defensive

Priorities

Revise poem!: Play with complete sentences.

Process Journals 4 and 5

HOMEWORK

Critique 2 poems for the people from your group:  Critique Instructions

1. Grant and Max
2. Emily and Camryn M.
3. Mikayla and Brynn
4. David and Coleman
5. Kyla and Izzy
6. Michaelan and Brenden

Critique Assignment and Work Time

Starter 15

1. What's your favorite part of your poem right now?  Why?
2. What problems/difficulties are you running into as you write and revise?  Be specific?
3. Talk to a person about your problems/difficulties.  Come up with 3 possible solutions for THEIR problems.  List them in your starter.

Critique Assignments

See the document linked above for your critique assignments, and an explanation of what you have to do.  For the two poems for tonight, please do the following:

1. Read and annotate carefully
2. What is the experience (intellectual and emotional!) being expressed here.
3. 2 places that are memorable, piercing, or true.  Explain why they stand out.
4. 2 specific improvements or revisions that would improve the poem.  Make sure to explain HOW to revise.
5. Address the author's focusing question.

Work Time

1. Process Journal 3 (see yesterday's post for details)
2. Process Journals 4 and 5
3. Poem Revisions

HOMEWORK

1. Process Journal 3- SHARE with Lori before class starts on Thursday!
2. Critique two poems, using the instructions above.  DUE:  Start of class, Thursday.
• AM Class:  Kyle and Camryn S.
• PM Class:  Ethan and Keegan

Poem Draft 2 Critiques and QUIZ

Devices Quiz
Take the quiz!  If you are absent, you'll need to schedule a makeup time with me.

Starter 14
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 9-14

Draft 2 Critiques

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:  Finish Process Journal 3, and share with Lori before class starts on Thursday.

Out with sick baby...here is what you should work on today.

Hey guys,

I've been up with a screaming baby all night, so I won't be coming in (believe me, I'd rather be there!).  So, lucky you, the quiz is now moved to TUESDAY when we get back from the weekend.  Here's what I'd like you to do today:

1. Starter 13:  Lost Generation

• Watch the video above
• What do you notice about this poem?
• What unique thing could you do to the form (HOW your poem is written) of your poem to emphasize the perspective you're trying to communicate?
1. Poem Draft 2- Finish it, and print a copy for critique on Tuesday.  Print before you leave class, if possible!
2. Process Journal 2- Finish it and share it with Lori.
3. Poem Memorization- Work on memorizing your poem.  People who were supposed to recite today will go on TUESDAY when we get back.
4. Process Journal 3- Get a head start on this one!  See specific prompts below.

Process Journal 3

1. 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.”
   
   
   a.       EXAMPLE: Soldiers
                                                                 i.      Simile: The soldiers were like dogs, straining against their leashes to enter the fight.
                                                               ii.      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: 

• Finish and PRINT poem draft 2.  DUE Tuesday.
• Finish and SHARE process journal 2.  DUE Tuesday.

Poem Work Time

Starter 14

1.      Trade poems with someone at your table.

2.      Read their poem, then write on their poem:

a.       What are two aspects of this poem that you really enjoy?  Be specific!

b.      What are two specific revisions they should make to this poem?  Be specific!  Think about…poetic devices, cutting, adding, rewriting, making the language more powerful, message, etc.

3.      Get your poem back.  In your STARTER, write:

a.       Based on the feedback you received and your own instincts, what are three revisions you want to make to your poem before your next round of feedback?

Poetry Process Journal 2

1. Find a specific poem with a style you would like to imitate, or would like to draw from.  Write the title and author.
•  ID all poetic devices used in that poem (just list them)
• Choose at least three poetic devices/techniques from your form inspiration that you want to emulate.
• For each device:
•  Explain WHY you’re drawn to that device…what do you like about how that device is used in your inspiration?
•  Explain how that device will help you to develop the message and perspective of your poem.
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2. Revision challenge:
1. Rewrite a chunk of your poem (at least 5 lines) in a completely different form. (Examples:  If you are doing spoken word, do a sonnet, if your poem is formal, try to write like ee cummings, if it’s formal, write like spoken word, etc.
2. Make sure you copy and paste the original 5 lines and the revised 5 lines into your process journal.

1. 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:  Study for DEVICES QUIZ tomorrow!

Poetry Work Time and Quiz Study

Starter 11
Look at your list of poetic devices and do the following:

1. List the five you are most confident about being able to define and use for our quiz.
2. List the five you are least confident about being able to define and use for our quiz.
3. Study for 15 minutes!

Work Time!

Your work priorities are as follows...

1. Poem Draft 1
2. Process Journal 1
3. Study for Quiz
4. Memorize Poem

HOMEWORK

1. PRINT poem draft 1 for class tomorrow.
2. SHARE process journal with Lori before class