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4/30-5/1 I can use the Reading a Poem questions to analyze my chosen poem knowing I will have to write about it next class. |
Reading a Poem (and improving your own) Select a poem you like (you don't need to understand it yet) from Poetry 180 (you may not select a poem we have used in class such as "American Cheese" or "The Blue Bowl") Answer the questions posed on the Analyzing Poetry here: Reading a Poem Questions Practice Poem: "Not Waving but Drowning" |
Submit your Reading a Poem Questions to SCHOOLOGY before class!!!! |
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4/26-29 I can work within the confines of the genres, using meter and rhyme schemes. |
Share a poem -- elegy or carpe diem? compose one of each -- labeled by genre :)
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Select your most PROMISING poem (might not be your best yet) to revise for project! |
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4/24-25 I can compose both a carpe diem and an elegy. |
Poetry: Terms and Types -- Can you find some in sample poems??? Concrete Poem share Carpe Diem and Elegy: compose one of each genre. Label each assignment but also be sure to add a TITLE! |
Complete your poem if not already done. Check that you have a poem for EACH assignment in Portfolio. There will be a 6 pt. interim grade check-in for completeness. Clearly 1/2 hearted efforts will not earn full credit. |
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4/22-23 I can use the examination and description of the concrete to compose a poem. |
Poetry Terms and Types Poetry Slam example Share animal poems Making the Abstract Concrete -- “In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.” Anton Chekhov
Write about a very concrete image or object -- tease out the tension -- and then title it with an abstraction. Call it Practicing the Concrete on google doc
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Complete your poem if not already done. Select ONE of your other poems to edit -- select an abstraction (an idea or emotion) to convert into a concrete image. Make the change in a BRIGHT color so I can see it. |
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4/11-12 I can use the metaphors of animals to get at a universal experience. |
Fixed Hallmark poems SHARED Animal Poems -- tension? structure? sound devices? Compose you OWN animal poem -- you may NOT use a horse, cow, cat, or dog... The poem should have a clear idea and tension, insight into the specific life of that animal or our own. |
Poetry: Terms and Types Find the definitions and be ready to apply them |
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4/9-10 I can identify and create tension in a poem by getting at the dual nature of an experience or desire. |
Create a Google doc labeled: Poetry Portfolio. Share the hyperlink to the Schoology Assignment so labeled.
Conflict in poetry (the tension) WIRES What is the conflict in both these poems? Assignment title: Tension
Why Hallmark Cards are NOT poetry -- lack of tension What emotions are missing?
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Finish your Fixed Hallmark Poems! |
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4/5-8 I can revise my body paragraphs so that the importance of diction/word-choice is clear. |
Body paragraphs again... Revise ONE of your paragraphs using format: 1. Discuss or explain the connotation of the word or phrase. 2. Comment on the emotional response. What is the tone? Mood? 3. Comment on the purpose of the type of diction an author uses. What is the significance? What does it show us about the monsters? What does it show about Odysseus' reaction? .
Finish film |
REVISE drafts and SUBMIT FINAL COPY to SCHOOLOGY by DEADLINE. |
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4/3-4 I can edit peer samples of intros and conclusions to edit my own.
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Body Paragraphs 1. Discuss or explain the connotation of the word or phrase. 2. Comment on the emotional response. What is the tone? Mood? 3. Comment on the purpose of the type of diction an author uses. What is the significance? What does it show us about the monsters? What does it show about Odysseus' reaction? .
Intro samples
The final challenge -- HOME |
REVISE drafts |
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4/1-2 I can use an idea or statement about fear to frame my introduction. I can write a good conclusion, developing an implication that the topic suggests.
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Common Lit -- The Complexity of Fear article The Carta Marina 16th C. Sea Monsters galore Ideas about the nature of FEAR? Title Transitioning between paragraphs -- the repeated idea method revisited |
Complete your introduction, conclusion, and smooth out transitions (between and within paragraphs) We will examine peer examples of intro's and conclusions next class. ESSAY final copy will be due 4/5 Block 4 & 4/8 Block 1.
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