Today we will continue our performances of Spoon River. I am not here (as you can see) but that shouldn't stop you. Please prepare for the next 10 minutes (for those of you who haven't gone yet.) The substitute teacher will call on anyone left to go.
Please evaluate those students performing today. Stay off the computers and actually watch the performances (particularly those of you in the back of the room). Please hand in your critiques after all the performers have gone.
You may return your Spoon River books to the library after today.
When you are done, please complete your character monologue poems (if you haven't done so already). Print these out and hand in to my inbox if you have completed the poem exercise.
Finished? Try working on any of these poetry exercises:
1. David Lehman wrote a poem called “The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke.” Pick a similarly everyday pair – butter and margarine, hotdogs and hamburgers, peanut butter & jelly, etc. Write a poem about the pair.
2. In the poem “Words”, Dana Gioia writes: “The world does not need words. It articulates itself/ in sunlight, leaves, and shadows.” Think of other things that don’t speak, and write a poem about how these things express themselves. How does an apple, or a spoon, or a house communicate, etc? What might it say? Why should we listen?
3. Write a poem where every line of the poem begins with the same word or the same letter.
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