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.