Your journals are due today. Please make sure your name is on your journal and turn in after announcements. I will return your journals today by the end of class.
LAB:
TASK ONE: First off, today in class, please read the article at this link about how to create a poem. Then believe it.
Please complete a draft of your slam poem. Use the examples and models I showed you last class. Use imagery to enhance the power of your words!
If you need help or ideas getting started/continuing, check this website: How to Write Slam Poetry (from Power Poetry)
TASK TWO: Read some poems/respond. Choose 3 poems from this site. Note: there are 9 pages of poems. Feel free to choose ones that look interesting to you. Choose the next page # at the bottom of the web page.
In the COMMENT section below for this post, please name the 3 poems and the author of the poems you chose to read.
LAB:
TASK ONE: First off, today in class, please read the article at this link about how to create a poem. Then believe it.
Please complete a draft of your slam poem. Use the examples and models I showed you last class. Use imagery to enhance the power of your words!
If you need help or ideas getting started/continuing, check this website: How to Write Slam Poetry (from Power Poetry)
TASK TWO: Read some poems/respond. Choose 3 poems from this site. Note: there are 9 pages of poems. Feel free to choose ones that look interesting to you. Choose the next page # at the bottom of the web page.
In the COMMENT section below for this post, please name the 3 poems and the author of the poems you chose to read.
- Identify the SPEAKER (who is telling the 'story' or 'speaking' in the poem),
- what is the situation or CONFLICT occurring in the poem? (Hint: look at the title and setting of the poem & consider why the speaker may be speaking and to whom...); and, finally,
- identify 1 example of imagery occurring in the poem: visual, sound, gustatory, kinesthetic/tactile, olfactory, olfactory. (Hint: metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, onomatopoeia, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, or various uses of diction and figurative language).
If you finish early, spend your time in the lab doing one of the following:
A. If you have work you have not finished, finish it. Turn in late for minimal credit.
B. Write a second or third poem for your portfolio.
C. Read more poems. The more you read, the better at writing poetry you will become. Promise. That's how it's done.
HOMEWORK: None.