Decide what you would like to perform at the coffeehouse on December 15
at 7:00. Print this selection out and just like your speeches, prepare
and mark it for performance.
1. Decide what TONE your "persona" is using.
2. Decide where you will pause, change your pitch or tone, speed up or slow down
3. Decide what gestures or facial expressions you will make
4. Decide what lines are the most important ones in your poem. Underline or highlight these.
5. If you poem does not yet have a title, please give your poem a title.
Please watch the following poems performed by professionals & note how the poet performs the poem:
During period 4, we will be going downstairs to the Ensemble Theater to begin our rehearsal process for the upcoming coffeehouse.
1. Decide what TONE your "persona" is using.
2. Decide where you will pause, change your pitch or tone, speed up or slow down
3. Decide what gestures or facial expressions you will make
4. Decide what lines are the most important ones in your poem. Underline or highlight these.
5. If you poem does not yet have a title, please give your poem a title.
Please watch the following poems performed by professionals & note how the poet performs the poem:
--Sharon Olds (reads 2 poems: Ode to a Composting Toilet & Ode to the Tampon) (note: mature language)Note the pace or tone of the performer's voice, the volume, pitch, or gestures the poet uses to convey MEANING. Jot down your observations on the index card provided to you and hand in by end of period 3.
--Ted Kooser (reading "Pearl")
--Naomi Shihab Nye (3 poems: "Please Describe How You Became a Writer", "Fresh", "During a War"
--Alicia Keys (poem "Prisoner of Words Unsaid")
During period 4, we will be going downstairs to the Ensemble Theater to begin our rehearsal process for the upcoming coffeehouse.
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