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.