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