Poetry & Performance

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Period 3: Rehearse and prepare your chosen poem for your performance of it next period. Read and refer to rubrics and advice about your poetry performance.

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)?

When you have a clear idea, examine the poem and practice fluency (be familiar with strange words or how a line goes). Look up vocabulary you don't know and practice, practice, practice reading your poem out loud. Use strategies you learned from the Coffeehouse rehearsal/performance to help you.

If you are done rehearsing and feel confident that you will do a great job, 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

This poem draft will be due Monday, Dec. 4 at the end of the period along with your performance poem draft.

Period 4:

Performance Rubric

HOMEWORK: Complete your chosen poetry collection and return your book to the library when you have completed the assignments that are required of it (see previous posts for details and the tasks above). Your performance poem DRAFT and your poetry collection original DRAFT are due Monday at the end of class. Absent students who did not perform today will have to perform Monday for the class.