Please turn in your homework. A reminder that this Sunday, Oct. 20 at 1:00-5:00 is the Creative Writing picnic retreat at Mendon Ponds. Family members and friends interested in writing are also welcome. Please let Ms. Gamzon or Mr. Craddock know if you are planning to attend.
Jessica Care Moore
Your poem should start to use the following poetic techniques: metaphor, simile, allusion, and alliteration. For now, all poems will be expected to have at least 3 of these 4 techniques. Other techniques that are useful are: personification, meter, and imagery. If you don't know a word or technique look here. You may use any technique on this list, by the way.
HOMEWORK: Please turn in any late work. Your journals will be collected next class, and there is a unit test (see post above).
Jessica Care Moore
- Black Statue of Liberty
- When My Son Sees an American Flag
- Box This
- Inspired Word
- I'm a Hip Hop Cheerleader
Suheir Hammad
Dawn Saylor: When I was 14
Marty McConnell: Give Me One Good Reason to Die
Andrea Gibson: Prism
Sarah Kay
Now it's your turn, write a poem in which you tell something private, important, or beautiful to someone who desperately needs to hear it. Avoid rhyming and centering your poem drafts. Allow the poem to take shape as a narrative or story. You do not have to be the "speaker" in the poem, but you should have a strong voice that says something important about our existence as human beings. Use the poets you have watched and examined as models.
Your poem should start to use the following poetic techniques: metaphor, simile, allusion, and alliteration. For now, all poems will be expected to have at least 3 of these 4 techniques. Other techniques that are useful are: personification, meter, and imagery. If you don't know a word or technique look here. You may use any technique on this list, by the way.
After you write your draft, please save your draft and turn it in.
HOMEWORK: Please turn in any late work. Your journals will be collected next class, and there is a unit test (see post above).
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