Period 3:
PART 1: With your collection of poetry you chose from the library, find your favorite poem and practice it. You will be reading this poem to us as practice reading in front of the class next time we meet (Thursday). You will be graded on your knowledge and performance of your chosen poem.
To help you prepare, consider who is speaking in the poem (the poem's speaker).
PART 2: Then: model your own original poem on the style or perhaps the poem you like from the collection. Choose a similar theme, style, form, tone, or topic/subject matter. Try to mimic the poet's voice in your original poem. Write the draft of that poem. In the title's subtitle, explain what poem inspired you and by whom (for example):
PART 3: Watch these video performances:
Post a comment in the COMMENT section of this blog post. Write about what made (or didn't make) one of these performances effective. What did you notice the performers doing that worked (or didn't work) for you as an audience member/viewer?
If you finish before 4th period, please continue to type up and submit your poem drafts.
Period 4:
The Collaborative Poem
1. Get into groups of 2, 3, or 4. No one should work alone for this project. If you are alone you will fail this project (no exceptions!) Please let me know if you cannot find a partnership.
2. After you have chosen your groups, gather together and decide on a topic or theme for your poem. As most collaborative slam poetry, it might be easiest to agree on a political or social problem that you are all concerned with. To gather ideas, each person in the group should suggest a topic, write down the topic, then go around the circle adding other options. After you have gone around a few times (and everyone has at least contributed two ideas) look at the list and agree on a topic.
Go no further than this step. Your group should FIRST agree upon the topic. When you have decided, please let me know what your group has decided is their topic/subject (sign the sign up sheet with your group members' names and topic), then go on to step #3.
3. The rules:
Once you have a draft, print out enough copies for each of your members, then gather to practice and block the performance.
This project is not yet due. You should pick your groups, decide on a topic, and begin your writing of the first draft by the end of class. I suggest using Google docs so that all members can contribute while sitting at their computer stations. To do this, SHARE your document with your members. Give members editing privileges.
HOMEWORK: Complete your poetry collections. Bring them back with you to next class. Prepare your reading of your chosen poem from the collection. See above for details.
PART 1: With your collection of poetry you chose from the library, find your favorite poem and practice it. You will be reading this poem to us as practice reading in front of the class next time we meet (Thursday). You will be graded on your knowledge and performance of your chosen poem.
To help you prepare, consider who is speaking in the poem (the poem's speaker).
- Who is this person most likely to be?
- What might they be like?
- What is the tone of their voice?
- How might they talk, move, hold their head?
- To whom might they be speaking (and why)?
PART 2: Then: model your own original poem on the style or perhaps the poem you like from the collection. Choose a similar theme, style, form, tone, or topic/subject matter. Try to mimic the poet's voice in your original poem. Write the draft of that poem. In the title's subtitle, explain what poem inspired you and by whom (for example):
- The Poem That Inspires Me: Inspired by "Song" by John Donne
PART 3: Watch these video performances:
Post a comment in the COMMENT section of this blog post. Write about what made (or didn't make) one of these performances effective. What did you notice the performers doing that worked (or didn't work) for you as an audience member/viewer?
If you finish before 4th period, please continue to type up and submit your poem drafts.
Period 4:
The Collaborative Poem
1. Get into groups of 2, 3, or 4. No one should work alone for this project. If you are alone you will fail this project (no exceptions!) Please let me know if you cannot find a partnership.
2. After you have chosen your groups, gather together and decide on a topic or theme for your poem. As most collaborative slam poetry, it might be easiest to agree on a political or social problem that you are all concerned with. To gather ideas, each person in the group should suggest a topic, write down the topic, then go around the circle adding other options. After you have gone around a few times (and everyone has at least contributed two ideas) look at the list and agree on a topic.
Go no further than this step. Your group should FIRST agree upon the topic. When you have decided, please let me know what your group has decided is their topic/subject (sign the sign up sheet with your group members' names and topic), then go on to step #3.
3. The rules:
A. All group members must speak.You may find it helpful to first come up with a response line or choral line: a repeated line that all group members recite together or at different times to cue your group members as to where you are in the poem. Write the draft of the poem together first.
B. All group members must contribute to the poem in some significant way.
C. Help each other.
D. Include gestures and "blocking" for your performance.
Once you have a draft, print out enough copies for each of your members, then gather to practice and block the performance.
This project is not yet due. You should pick your groups, decide on a topic, and begin your writing of the first draft by the end of class. I suggest using Google docs so that all members can contribute while sitting at their computer stations. To do this, SHARE your document with your members. Give members editing privileges.
HOMEWORK: Complete your poetry collections. Bring them back with you to next class. Prepare your reading of your chosen poem from the collection. See above for details.
12 comments:
what made the performance effective was how soon as they started the first words he said was relatable. I noticed the performers covered each others mouth and was loud and turned towards the crowd and each other.
In the 2008 NPS Group PieceChampions: Team NYC-Urbana 2008, the beatbox and the sounds they made was louder than the actual poem and I couldn't hear the poem properly. :)
hold my tongue;
"How to Impeach the Worst President in US History". The acting makes it a lot easier to understand the poem. The tone also makes the poem a lot powerful
"how to impeach the worst president" - I thought was a very powerful and well spoken poem.
"Hold your tongue" used hands and movement to their advantage, which I thought was really cool, and made it seem more unique.
"Hold your tongue"
This performance was effective because the performers expressed emotions in their voice, in their body, and in their faces.
"spit". It worked with the rhythm, which is good. The 'background singers' if you will, helped but also garbled the words a bit.
Black and White, that poem is the difference it seems the two race may notice and see. They speak it quickly but you are able to understand what they are talking about. They become louder when they come together in one line. They rhyme and they look like they are serious about what they are talking about. They have a good point about what is kind of seen by some of the media they notice for the race and not about what's truly inside. They talk about making a change the race coming. =
In "Hold your Tongue" There was a lot of movements and words spoken in unison. I think this strengthened and intensified the Poem. It also contributed to the idea that this is a universal experience.
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