Class this week had two goals.
1) To continue analysis of feature magazines for content and style, and to analyze these articles to better understand the kinds of question that lead to the writing of the article.
2) To begin a poetry unit. The poetry unit will require writers to submit during the week of February 19
th drafts on approximately
six assigned poems, plus two revised Final Versions of poems.
On Monday
Class began with the
prompt: “My passion is…”
Writers read and discussed Anne Lamott’s
“Brocolli”
Writers read and studied Komunyakaa’s
“Slam, dunk, & Hook”
then writers looked at the writing they did for the prompt
today searching for lines that were poetic or inspiring in order to attempt to write a poem in a similar form to "Slam, dunk, & Hook"
On Tuesday
Prompt: “I remember….”
Students received a handout on poetry, please see Mr. Zartler for a copy.
Then
Poetry model for Tuesday
“Venus-flytraps” by Komunyakaa
Writers then read, discussed, and compared the formating to his “Slam, Dunk, & Hook”
The writers tried to write a poem in the format “I am… formatted poem like Venus-flytraps”
On Thursday the class worked together to annotate an article called "How Chicken Conquered the World". Then using their own feature magazine article were to annotate that article as homework due Monday. Writers who missed this class should come to Tutorial Period on Tuesday the 12th.
The poetry models for the day are available on youtube
Blink Your Eyes Sekou Sundiata
A modern “love” poem
(prep for one F-bomb)
"Shallow Thoughts" - Spoken Word Poetry - Pierre Marc
Paras
“Verselandia PPS Poetry Slam
Winning Poet”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-sdQzaxLQ
here is another one of
Lauren Steele’s work
UPSET Rally Lauren Steele Spoken Word
Writers then tried to write Spoken Word poems.
